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We're being deported from Thailand, so we're planning our escape. No, okay, actually it
is time for a Visa run. We've been living in Thailand for a month now and we only get
thirty days, so today we're going to Burma to get an extension and right now we've stopped
in Chiang Rai where we have this lovely sulfur spring that smells like eggs.
So we're not too far from Chiang Rai right now. We've got here in like record time. Our
driver is an absolute maniac. He's driving on the wrong lane in places where it says
forty kilometers he's going like one hundred or one hundred and twenty but at least we're
going to get there fast if we actually make it there alive.
Water spring noises.
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And just like that we're in Burma and this is my little pass. I've only got an hour until
we've got to cross the border again.
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Three for 6 baht.
So I've just got a little goody bag of treats. I honestly don't have any clue what it is.
We really don't have a lot of time. We were only given one hour to cross the border and
get back, so now we've got to head back to the Thai side already. So sad. Yeah.
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Okay, so how the Visa run works. We took a bus from Chiang Mai to Mae Sae and that was
650 Baht and it took about four hours. Then once we reached the border we had to go through
Immigration, get our passports stamped and we paid five hundred Baht to get our re-entry
Visa basically.
The whole process cost only eleven hundred and fifty Baht which is slightly less than
forty US dollars.
So that gives us an extra two weeks in the country before we need to hop another border
in order to extend again.
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