Visa Run, A Reason To Hate Mondays Again.
Thailand issues 30 day tourist visas. So if you want to stay in Thailand longer than 30 days you simply cross a border into another country then turn around and walk back into Thailand, letting then stamp your passport with another 30 day visa.
When you are away for this long, days of the week don't mean a thing. Friday is no different to Tuesday, nobody gets excited on a Friday night, and nobody gets depressed on a Sunday Evening. However, Mondays are different. Monday mornings are my favourite day, just because i used to hate Mondays the most, now every time i wake up on a Monday, i realise how great it is to be away travelling the world.
Last Monday was horrific, we woke up at 4am because of screaming drunk girls next door, once we had woken up we didn't get back to sleep. At 6:30am our alarm goes off just as we had fallen asleep for 5 minutes. We get up and drag ourselves to the top of the hill to meet the minibus that is taking us to the border. Its throwing it down with rain, but is hot as hell, we get all sticky and wet, then jump in the bus. Then we have the most pointless 10 hour trip on a bus you could ever imagine. 5 hours to the border, get off the bus, cross the border, then cross back in. The queue is massive and we are stood in the rain waiting to get the visa stamp. The Thai authorities love to let you leave the country but will make it as painful as possible to let you back in. They read every stamp in your passport, it takes about 1 hour. We then jump back in the bus for another 5 hours returning back to the same place that we left this morning. The most pointless day of my entire life!
I'm fine with sitting on a bus for 18 hours to go somewhere new, but there is something psychologically damaging about sitting on a bus for 10 hours and ending up back in the same place as you started!
Just try and imaginge catching a bus from London to Manchester, getting there, touching a lampost, then going straight back to London.
We also found out later that Southern Thailand is pretty dodgy at the moment, at least one person a day is killed through shootings. Again this is much the same as going to Manchester
Chris
When you are away for this long, days of the week don't mean a thing. Friday is no different to Tuesday, nobody gets excited on a Friday night, and nobody gets depressed on a Sunday Evening. However, Mondays are different. Monday mornings are my favourite day, just because i used to hate Mondays the most, now every time i wake up on a Monday, i realise how great it is to be away travelling the world.
Last Monday was horrific, we woke up at 4am because of screaming drunk girls next door, once we had woken up we didn't get back to sleep. At 6:30am our alarm goes off just as we had fallen asleep for 5 minutes. We get up and drag ourselves to the top of the hill to meet the minibus that is taking us to the border. Its throwing it down with rain, but is hot as hell, we get all sticky and wet, then jump in the bus. Then we have the most pointless 10 hour trip on a bus you could ever imagine. 5 hours to the border, get off the bus, cross the border, then cross back in. The queue is massive and we are stood in the rain waiting to get the visa stamp. The Thai authorities love to let you leave the country but will make it as painful as possible to let you back in. They read every stamp in your passport, it takes about 1 hour. We then jump back in the bus for another 5 hours returning back to the same place that we left this morning. The most pointless day of my entire life!
I'm fine with sitting on a bus for 18 hours to go somewhere new, but there is something psychologically damaging about sitting on a bus for 10 hours and ending up back in the same place as you started!
Just try and imaginge catching a bus from London to Manchester, getting there, touching a lampost, then going straight back to London.
We also found out later that Southern Thailand is pretty dodgy at the moment, at least one person a day is killed through shootings. Again this is much the same as going to Manchester
Chris
posted by Chris at 8:55 AM
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