I am an American living in Chiang Mai on a retirement visa. I am currently in Kunming but I am returning to Thailand and want to take my Chinese GF to stay with me on a tourist visa. We want to go overland by bus, 1st visiting some places in China before crossing Laos, and finally crossing Thailand via Chiang Kong. I also plan to return to China with her after exhausting her tourist visa + extensions by bus as well. I get conflicting information from the Thai consulate sources. The Kunming Thai Consulate website says (1) the visa is up to 60 days (2) one must have a round trip air ticket. At the Thai consulate, the clerk showed me a document with visa info, saying (1) the visa is upto 1 month (2) I need a roundtrip or return ticket (don't remember which) by air, boat or bus.
Does anyone have any past experiencing getting a Chinese National into Thailand without flying?
I am back from Lijiang and I am up for any decent medium to long rides (50K to 80K) on all or mostly paved roads. I ride a 16" wheel 3 speed dahon folding bike so I don't do any of the mountain dirt road rides.
I would be interested as well. Right now, I am off to Lijiang for about 2 weeks. I was on a great ride this past Saturday with a Chinese rider who spoke good English. We had an enjoyable easy ride around northeast of Kunming to Shuang Long and where we went to a great and cheap local restaurant.
I met this foreigner who told me a Chinese friend helped him find inexpensive (300rmb and up) rooms/apartment in Kunming through several Chinese only websites. He left Kunming without leaving me this information, so does anyone know of any websites. Of course, I would prefer English but I suspect any English lang website will list a lot more expensive places. He said I could easily find a non-sharing nice large room/apartment for 600 to 800 rmb with a minimum of only 1 month stay.
bucko, where did you get such ultra cheap tickets and which airline are you using? Is it one of those that take about a day to arrive because there is a very long stopover?
I usually take the bus to Jinghong leaving from the South Bus Station.
In JH, you can catch a bus to Huay Xai Laos the next morning. I am not sure if there is a sleeper going to HX. You can probably buy the next morning bus after you arrive in JH.
I usually stay at Manytrees International Youth Hostel several nights before I take the morning bus to Laos. www.yhachina.com/ls.php?hostID=2&id=198
You should arrive in HX in time to cross the border into Thailand. You can sleep 1 night at one of the local GHs and catch the Green Bus to CM in the morning or catch a minivan the same day at about 6PM to CM.
Hope this helps.
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I usually take the bus to Jinghong leaving from the South Bus Station.
In JH, you can catch a bus to Huay Xai Laos the next morning. I am not sure if there is a sleeper going to HX. You can probably buy the next morning bus after you arrive in JH.
I usually stay at Manytrees International Youth Hostel several nights before I take the morning bus to Laos.
www.yhachina.com/ls.php?hostID=2&id=198
You should arrive in HX in time to cross the border into Thailand. You can sleep 1 night at one of the local GHs and catch the Green Bus to CM in the morning or catch a minivan the same day at about 6PM to CM.
Hope this helps.