Making a run for the border

Location: Chaing Rai
Weather: Warm

I had to leave Ko Phangan because basically my 30 day Thai visa was running out, this happens to a lot of people and to solve this problem you have to make a 'border run'. It seems my friend Dominic had the same problem, so we took a 3 hour ferry to Suritani, then a 4 hour bus north to Ranong, which is on the Burmese - the driver of this bus was the worst I've ever experienced. He couldn't keep his eyes on the road and didn't posess the ability to drive in a straight line, EVER, it was incredible. Anyways we spent a night in Ranong and then took a longboat to Burma or Myanmar as it is now called. We had intended to see Burma for a couple of hours but we were infested with kids begging for money as soon as we got off the boat, it was a bit of a shame really, so we left after about 45mins. I did purchase some Myanmar whiskey, but declined their offers of cheap Viagra and Valium.

By JamesReed on 11.03.05 @ 03:26 PM GMT