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navara

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  1. The choices here for the trip between the two immigration points are limited . Taking your own vehicle across can be expensive and time consuming as you need all the correct paperwork which has to be thoroughly checked at both ends. The original setup of taking a motorcycle taxi was the best. Cheap and fast. It seems like every time I go to this border there is some new twist that requires a longer wait and another 100 baht.

    Myself I use the Friendship bridge at Mae Sot, never any problem there. You can walk over by yourself, no hassle nothing, except one time the Thai immigration stamped a wrong date in my passport, so I had to walk twice!

  2. I used the crappy minibus last week too, not a pleasant experience. A/c hardly working so a fan was plugged in somewhere and propped up on the back.

    I have other concerns at what goes on at this crossing too. One trip last year involved a very young girl being added to the passengers just before the Burmese checkpoint, told to lie down in the back on the bus and then collected just before the Thai one.

    I told a trusted Thai police friend of my concerns and he said a lot of trafficking happens through there.

    Wouw! Child labor too? What would happen if the immigration had seen this? Might cost farangs in that van hours.

  3. Today I've heard a strange story about a visa run at Ban pho nam ron. The visa handling was not the issue, but the 4km van trip to the Myanmar border and back. My friend was in company of his Thai wife and the costs for that fare was 100 baht one way, so they had to pay 400 baht for only 8 km. In BKK you would see half the city for that amount! But okay, mai pen rai.

    He said a very old, shabby and dirty van showed up. The driver, which was Myanmar, was paid 40 baht and he could have fuel for that money. Which he did. He let them wait for almost 20 min at the gas station. He might be talking with his friends there. Then he went on and the next stop was the mango sales shop, he wanted a mango. The next stop was the lemonade shop, to order a drink. He parked the van and went to the Myanmar border office and after 15 min he came back. Then he stopped at the lemonade shop to get his drinks, probably also for somebody else, because he had 2. What next happened made my friend very angry, he stopped again at the gas station, now to fill up a kind of very large milk cans with BENZENE, with a shabby cover. And placed those two cans in the van, next to my friend and his wife!

    I said I will post this story on Thai Visa, so other farang will read this and are warned. What would happened in case of an accident???????? Old shabby van, for sure no maintenance and 20 liter benzene?

  4. does Interpol really track down tax cheats? You'd think they have better things to do with their time.

    Interpol's main tasks are public safety and terrorism, organized crime, drug trafficking, arms smuggling, trafficking, child pornography, economic crime and corruption..

    They could open an office then.

  5. On no, after what this country did to tourist? They got involved with all kind of crime, was there any protection? Or does the Thai people understand what economy means, so they will thank every tourist who came to bring there money?

    No, Thailand is for some time in the news in a negative way. Also the coup will not be understood as a necessary thing. For people from democratic countries is it a reason to stay away.

  6. Leave while you still can. Find a decent life in your own country. Usually the troubles with your "girlfriend" starts after a couple of years. (Now you say.... naaahhhh.. not this girlfriend) Well.... the relationships who were successful I know, I can count on one hand. I'm not saying those girls are bad, hell no. They are very different, even when they are well educated. (you see after a few years). Plus, being an expat over a tourist, you see many thing you really do not like, no matter how anticipating you can be.

    Good luck, I really hope you have luck.

  7. I think the Thai police followed their own experiences at first. It is not likely that the common people of Kho Tao would do a crime like this. Perhaps we all have seen to much fbi stories on tv. It takes some time to make a profile of the murderers.

    That they left the murder weapon, it very odd. Or they are plain stupid or just full of confidence. If the last is the case, the police should look into older cases, there might be a match. If this was a sexual offence, it must have occurred more often and it will happen again in the future. Perhaps those rapists are buddies (and always travel together). The police assumed they are drug abusers, are they? Was Jack the Ripper a drug abuser?

  8. 'Might have fled' mmm... In this case the killers must have used a boat. One they have used themselves or one they have rented. Any boat missing? Stolen at Koh Tao or at other places? Perhaps there was a fishing trailer, who go for anchor? Isn't there any help from the coast guards? And if they went a shore, how did they travel further?

    There is a million baht reward.... WHO knows any relative who is a drug abuser and behaves strange or suspicious during the period of the killing till today? People, simply sent his dna (can be anything) to the police, with a letter why you think this person might be involved. The police will handle your evidence with all secrecy.

    I am sure, that one of the killers have told somebody that they were about to visit Koh Tao. There are not many people during that period, compare to the 68 million Thai we have. If you combine this fact with, friends, drugs and suspicious behavior, it is worth to sent a dna sample to the police.

    Good luck,

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