Expat With Self Owned Car / Travel To Cambodia / Requierments

[Antaro]

living on a non immigrant visa class O (retirement) in thailand and have my own car here (in my name).

want to travel cambodia and laos in my car.

what do i need to do to cross borders in my car?

can anyone help?

[stingray]

living on a non immigrant visa class O (retirement) in thailand and have my own car here (in my name).

want to travel cambodia and laos in my car.

what do i need to do to cross borders in my car?

can anyone help?

Nothing specially. You need the "blue book" and a copy of this and of cousre, your passport. The form you can fill out at the border. Cambo takes 100 Baht per day, your car drive on their roads. You can only drive at the border province. It doesn't make sense, i know, but it it like that. So if for example toy cross Hat Lek, you can drive only in Province Ko Kong, unless you go to Phnom Phen first and apply for a countrywide permit. But how can you drive to Phnom Phen without drive out from Koh Kong Province??? This is the question what puzzles me. Going to Phnom Phen and apply for a countrywide permit to drive your car?? Yes, this is the legal way, but most of peaple from Thailand, who drove their car into cambo, take off their numberplate, after they crossed the border and drive all over cambo in all the provinces. Proparly no cop would stop anyone, because in cambo stil have many cars on the road without license plates. This is what i done when i drove to Sihanouk Ville. This was 2 years ago and in that time they still using the Ferries. So the Police check at the last Ferry would not let me pass it i had Thai Plates on my car. Even they told me to remove the plates and of corse a 20 dollar note for some T Money.

[Antaro]

living on a non immigrant visa class O (retirement) in thailand and have my own car here (in my name).

want to travel cambodia and laos in my car.

what do i need to do to cross borders in my car?

can anyone help?

Nothing specially. You need the "blue book" and a copy of this and of cousre, your passport. The form you can fill out at the border. Cambo takes 100 Baht per day, your car drive on their roads. You can only drive at the border province. It doesn't make sense, i know, but it it like that. So if for example toy cross Hat Lek, you can drive only in Province Ko Kong, unless you go to Phnom Phen first and apply for a countrywide permit. But how can you drive to Phnom Phen without drive out from Koh Kong Province??? This is the question what puzzles me. Going to Phnom Phen and apply for a countrywide permit to drive your car?? Yes, this is the legal way, but most of peaple from Thailand, who drove their car into cambo, take off their numberplate, after they crossed the border and drive all over cambo in all the provinces. Proparly no cop would stop anyone, because in cambo stil have many cars on the road without license plates. This is what i done when i drove to Sihanouk Ville. This was 2 years ago and in that time they still using the Ferries. So the Police check at the last Ferry would not let me pass it i had Thai Plates on my car. Even they told me to remove the plates and of corse a 20 dollar note for some T Money.

thank you stingray!

[H2oDunc]

Antaro, Check out the gtrider forum. It has all the information you require for crossing borders in the Golden triangle area. Its mainly aimed at bike riders but the information on crossing will be the same for a car.

[yumidesign]

i have recently travelled throughout Laos with my own car. You must ger a passport for your car from the department of transport for minimal cost. I got mine in Chiang Mai but some transport depts will not issue one unless they bound an international border. Nong Khai is an easy place to do it. You need the blue book and a copy of your passport.

When you leave Thailand you must inform customs which border crossing you will use on return. I crossed the bridge in Nong Khae and returned through Pakse Ubon Ratchatani. You pay a small tax for road use on the Lao side. This is based on the time you will spend in Laos. I also took out comprehensive insurance at the border for a reasonable amount but dont like to think what would happen if I actually wanted to make a claim. It just made me feel better. Driving iin Laos is easy as there is very little traffic outside of Vientiane. Cant tell you anything about Cambodia.

[gregb]

Cambo takes 100 Baht per day, your car drive on their roads. You can only drive at the border province. It doesn't make sense, i know, but it it like that. So if for example toy cross Hat Lek, you can drive only in Province Ko Kong, unless you go to Phnom Phen first and apply for a countrywide permit. But how can you drive to Phnom Phen without drive out from Koh Kong Province???

If you cross at Poipet you don't have any of these issues, or at least you didn't last year. No money charged on the Khmer side at all, and driving all the way down to Phnom Phen with Thai plates is no problem. Nobody ever stopped me.

The exact treatment you get at the border crossing on the Khmer side very much depends on where you cross. For example, they won't let you take your car across at all if you try and go through Prum! So you need to be alot more specific about where you are crossing into Cambodia if you want an accurate answer, and even then, it may depend on exactly who you get behind the desk on the day you decide to cross.