Just in case, who will go to do a visa through Chiang Khong, in early 2014 (or earlier) built a bridge over the river, especially for Entry to Laos and Vizara is carried out in a new place. The former crossing the boat (as explained by the border guard at the post) for foreign nationals closed. When driving from Chiang Rai before reaching before the previous crossing about 8km, there will be a big right turn. On special buses ply the border to cross the border.
If you go from Chiang Rai, then from the station a bus goes to Chiang Khong. Next, you will need to change to a motor rickshaw and drive to checkpoint itself, unfortunately, I do not know where the city stops the bus, but the residual distance should not exceed 5-8 km. We are with wife went on a motorbike. From Chiang Rai it takes about 2 hours two stops for 10 min. At the checkpoint itself after leaving Thailand A special bus is taking you across the river to the checkpoint. Laos. After going through customs, we went to Laos, then turned around and drove back to Thailand in the opposite way. At first planned to go to Laos for a day for a walk, left Chiang Rai early, but because of the delay in finding the necessary PPC (thought that it was necessary go by boat, as written on all sites) there is little time left and it was necessary to go back to Chiang Rai, and it turned out that after crossing the border of Laos, still had to go to another bus or rickshaw, as we were told 10km to the city itself. Amount I don’t remember now, but I definitely exceeded the tariffs for city taxis and tuk-tuki for similar distances.
Thanks to our reader Michael for providing information.
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Let me remind you that being in the north of Thailand, you can still ride on a visor at Me Sai (Burma), where the border crosses on foot.
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