Visa Run to Myanmar

The visa run is done by many thousands of visitors to Thailand every year. When you land from an over seas flight you get a 30 day visa which isn't long enough for most people. When you arive by land you get a 15 day visa so for us it was just not going to work either.

Our Resort for two nights 

We leave the bikes and head to Burma

We got picked up at 9 am by the Kiwi guest house transport and were driven to the dock where we cleared out of Thailand and jumped into a long tail boat with two other young backpackers from the UK and a couple of Thai's (I think they were just going shopping)

Kids are great 

Girls are alway shy

The busy crossing by long tail to Burma

The trip across was about 30 mins and the boat had to stop on a small Island with a very official looking building that we were told NO PHOTOS as we pulled up along side (see photo below)

The entry point into Burma (no photo please)

One of the crew took our passports and climbed up the steps to the office, returning two minutes later and we pushed of for the last five minute run to the mainland.

No rain but lots of sunshine

The skipper of Our Long Boat

Umbrella sales are good here

Shorts and T Shirt OK

Arrival point into Burma

When we arrived at the mainland we had to clamber over the other boats to get to shore were we where escorted to an other very official building with three guys inside stamping passports and taking money. We handed over our $10.00 US each which was inspected very closely for defects then our passports were stamped in and out and we were good to go back to Thailand to stay for a further 15 days.

Buddha is here also

We took and extra 15 mins to walk around the small town looking for something to remind us of the experience but found nothing that we fancied, so we loaded back onto the boat for the ride back.

Lots of Signs in town like this one

Back to Thailand with and extra 15 days

The ride on these long tail boats is a very noisy one as they have no muffler or air intake filter so after the one hour plus ride we were all pleased to get back to Thailand and get our fifteen day extension.

When you see how many people are doing this visa run to Myanmar one has to wonder why the Thai government don't change the system and make the $10.00  themselves??