Your experiences on border crossing scams in SE-Asia

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scammed $50 each Dad - $50 - Me $50 ---- $100...
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gavinbrisbane wrote:I don't have answers for everyone, I remember I was around 15 years old ---- I HONESTLY can not recall where it was (I will ask my Dad). I don't know why I am having de Ja vue

(?? at the moment). My Father and myself did a border run to Burma (Myanmar). It was all very exciting back then. I can not even recall what province, regardless to say it was quite a few hours from Chiang Mai. That is where we lived. We went to this town, I had my passport stamped, we had to walk down the road for a few hundred metres (please correct me if I am wrong - first time at 15 in the country). We both got into this long tail boat, we had to go up the river. All the smugglers boats were heavily covered and I was told by the boat owner and my Father not to LOOK TOO HARD, they were smugglers. (This was in about 91-92). (I might be a year or 2 off here - earlier I mean).

Anyway, the boat took us up the river to Myanmar. This particular passport office - OUT ON THE WATER! - I will never forget it. 45 minutes approx.

Dad (My Father) told me prior to approaching this building - "Put all your cash down your socks - leave 1000 Baht in your wallet!

Dad did not pay the long tail boat operator - as he said - "If I pay him now, he won't wait around - he will just take off!" - I will never forget that. I will give him extra for waiting - which he did.

We went into this house which looked like an old queenslander on stilts - but on the stilts - it was out on the water connected by a jetty, we had to pay what we had for the to stamp our passports - 1000 Baht back then - I was at school - that was like "OMG - $50!!!" anyway, I followed Dad's lead, and we went back to the boat and then down the river to this passport office, where we were stamped "back in" to the country (Never had to pay)...... I mean I was 15! what a bloody adventure..... I will never ever forget!


I actually have to find out where that was - I remember there were market stalls and all sorts of things...... I will never forget, I have been to many other places - that was the only place I (we) were ripped off....

Gav

Ur first description out of Chaing mai is Mae Sai, (about a 2 hour drive north) But there is no river to cross there is a bridge over the small stream and you walk across to burma

The 2n description is Ranong (north of Phuket) and Kwathoung where u take a long tail and u show ur passport at a small office in the river, get back in the boat an head to the mainland where you get stamped in and out

The ONLY other crossings back than were at Mae Sot and 3 pagoda pass ( west of Kanchanaburi) and both , you walk across
I think ur getting confused.

Note this is the way its been since my first Thai-Burma trips in 1988 and before 91 i had been to Mae Sot, Mae Sai and Ranong
and back than it was $10 to enter Burma ( still is) BUT you couldn't really enter, only go the border market area and had to be back in Thailand by 5pm

$50 each 1,000 baht ??

NEVER has that been the exchange rate.
even when i moved here in 84 it was around 24-25 to the $
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Yep, you are very pleasantly on track, unfortunately, I was 15, but do recall ---- amazing actually... omg..... YOU ARE the ONLY PERSON who knows this??? (CAN WE CHAT PLEASE?)...up to you...You actually know!! Wow! I am astonished that anyone would...... remember.... sorry, I am just me, Gav....
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I actually remember what you are saying, :)
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I can go back there tomorrow, but, no --- no one knows about it???
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Yes Richard, the Bridge was a little North.... we never talked about it....

Get the pic --- You are a great bloke -- WOW -- you are the only one who knows about this??

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To be honest, I DO REMEMBER RANONG --- but Dad had property all over the place - yes- Ranong - (Actually - now that I think about it - it is not far from the river? - kind of --- Yes!!) OMG, Dad had scraps of property everywhere, but anyway --------------------------------------- mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ---- Sawat Dee Kharp, Mai me Panhaa, choc dee Kharp... gav...
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gavinbrisbane wrote:Yes Richard, the Bridge was a little North.... we never talked about it....

Get the pic --- You are a great bloke -- WOW -- you are the only one who knows about this??

Kind respect

Gav
not even close to the only one.
lots of people know about this, i have written nothing except what it was :beer3:
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Yeah right!

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my gin Kow, gin salad kuen ne LOL
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