Thread: mission impossible laos

Ok no plobrem once you touch Lao soil, which I guess you could do in most of Isaan anyway but I didn't say that.

Originally Posted by benlovesnuk

sorry for not being so clear.......

thanks for all your help, maybe im a snob but id rather go on train then bus i found cambodia too much to deal with but thanks for the suggestion!

When you pass from the kingdom through the thai checkpoint and when you continue by bus over the bridge(no mans land) you reach the laos checkpoint, i presume?

once through this can i double back on myself as im in laos and go straight back or do i have to wait some time( because of arrival/departure cards)?

The reason for this is to catch the same train i came in on rather then having to wait for the later one!
but if this is not feasible i will just wait.

thanks once again

I did the round trip in an 1 hr 20 mins last week, bit lucky because there was no one at the Lao visa point. But as it was Sunday you get a lot of Lao going back into Thailand after their weekend home.
Could have done it in 15 Mins less if I didn't spend so much time chatting up the lovely Lao gals at the DF shop in the vain hope of parking my knob in one of them at some future date.

Pete's got a way with the lasses.

Originally Posted by benlovesnuk

do i have to wait some time

No not at all, you can enter Laos, walk around the immigration building and exit Laos immedialtey providing you have all those bloody immigration cards filled out.

A tip would be to get a few of the thai and the lao cards so you can fill those suckers out on the train on the way there next time. this will save you a few places in the queues and speed up the process. That border seems to get busier and busier these day. First time i went about 4 years ago there was hardly anybody there, these days its like Mumbai bus station

thanks chaps...........

i myself like a bit of cheese from the shops, and i know what you mean about the crowds - that is why i get a laos visa in bangkok slightly more but less hassle when you get there.

Well it all sounds good now i just wonder whether the train stays long enough to get back on the same one??????????????????????

Originally Posted by dirtydog

The trains don't leave till early evening.

You got around 9 hours wait for the train to leave Nong Khai.

errrm

are you saying that the same train doesnt leave until 6 hours after or its another train???????????????

Originally Posted by benlovesnuk

are you saying that the same train doesnt leave until 6 hours after

Yes

Check the timetable on this

State Railway of Thailand

check the timetable,........check the timet......are you serious? Actually make an effort to be in some way practical about finding out about something to do with visa trips like looking at the direct source of information for help!!!!!

brph brph i think your'e clearly in the wrong country, in thailand no-one i mean noone looks at the actual desired and specific website otherwise what would be the point of thaivisa....................

and of course without the nonsense above thank you for your direct answer!

Originally Posted by benlovesnuk

check the timetable

a very reasonable response. did your mother bring you to Thialand and drop you off? grow up.

i suppose its just as valid as your insult, so now we can actually see who actually needs to grow to their own maturity!

you moid, of non distinct relevance to this topic please dont post unless it has added something of relevance.

a joke is a joke, maybe you need to stop being so serious and remove that stick up your




i thinks thats a perfectly good response, bayeech titts

uhhhhhhhuhhhhhhhhh uhuhuh

^ Grouchy old git aint you

Originally Posted by benlovesnuk

check the timetable,........check the timet......are you serious? Actually make an effort to be in some way practical about finding out about something to do with visa trips like looking at the direct source of information for help!!!!!

An effort was made to help you, even to the point of supplying you with a link to the timetable, which you only had to click on. This would then have given you a roughh idea as to when the train actually should leave. Was this too hard to do?

When you ask for info follow some of the links at it usually means that someone has gone out of their way to find the info for you

im confused now, i thought at the end of my post to you i said


" and forget the nonsense............thankyou for your help......"

as in i looked at the timetable, and it helped and so i thanked you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i was joking about that fact that most people dont do this for themselves, generally and was making llight hearted fun at their expense, not yours......

thaks for the help once again, it did indeed help!

Good luck on your run, i had to do that a few times and i think 1hr 20 mins was a pretty quick turn around.
By the time you have got there, waited to be checked out, then waited for the bus across, then waited for someone to take your passport for what seems like an eternity, then walked round, checked out, waited for a bus, then got stuck behind 100 american students on there bus, 1hr 20 is quick!
Also dont go a dinner time they shut the booth, so your wait to get into laos will be even longer!

thanks i appreciate it, i wont go at lunch time no, no that would be a mistake!

ill be getting their at just before 9 say 8.45 and will cross over the bridge have something to eat and drink, have a look around the exciting town of vientienne for about all of 45 mins which is 40 mins longer then there is actually anything to look at! Then ill go get a massage, for 2 hours and eat drink come back over go to tesco in nong khai, wait for train buy some beer...............fall asleep miss my train and cry a little!

thanks once again!