My Life: Visa Run to Myanmar (Previously known as Burma)

The pier where we met our taxi boat to the Border

The Taxi boat and the government official

The border post (believe it or not)

We were unfortunately very busy at work and we were quite short staffed as some of the staff left without notice so we had to cut our grand plans for an extensive visit to another country short and only go for a day... The easiest option was Myanmar as this is the closest to us so off we went to Phuket and into a taxi bus for five hours each way to get to the Myanmar border post.

A very different visa run, we got to a makeshift pier and got told to get into a small longtail boat where some of the Burmese government officials met us to look at our passports and visa's. We stopped at the collection office where each person must pay 10$US for contributions to the government of Myanmar for the improvement of their tourism infrastructure, then you have to cross the channel to the Burmese border, where you can buy things like Jack Daniels for 20 South African Rands a bottle... BARGAIN!!!

You get off the longtail at the pier, get escorted to the border office, get you stamps and get escorted back to your longtail boat. No chance of escaping here... Then back for the whole journey to phuket in torrential rain. We at a stage really thought that we wouldn't make it back as our driver drives at 150km per our over dirt roads and potholes like it is nothing in the world.