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Home » Reader question » Reader question: Northern Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, who has tips?
Dear readers,
I have a question about our trip to Thailand. I have visited the south of Thailand a number of times now I would like to go to the North. From Bangkok to Chiang Mai, then? Maybe Laos, Cambodia?
Does anyone have any tips on traveling to these countries? Train/bus or book a flight?
Are there other places in the north of Thailand that you should definitely visit?
Thanks in advance!
Jorien
Plenty of tips…round Mae Hong Son eg. From Chiang Mai to Mae Sareang, Mae Hong Son and Pai…from the latter back to Chiang Mai with possibly a stop in Chiang Dao. You will experience this trip best if you travel by motorcycle.
Living in Chaing Mai, I went to BKK with the sleeper train for a friend's party last year. 2nd class downstairs bed is really easy to do (often delayed an hour or more but nice trip, good sleep and enough to chat with fellow travelers) Then for a visa run from BKK by bus to Vientiane, strolled there for 2 days and then continued with the bus to Luang Prabang. Wonderfully quiet village with many French influences and beautiful nature. From Luang Prabang I booked a slow boat. 2 days of wonderful sailing on the Mekong. En route an overnight stay in Pakbeng and arrival in Huy Sai. From there with a pound to Chiang Kong and then the Green bus back to Chiang Mai. WONDERFUL relaxing trip, cheap, seen / done a lot and for a high season ... almost no problems with tourist troublemakers. I can especially recommend the route this way ... if you do it the other way around, you will be in a stream of tourists who do the same (I don't know why, but believe me ... those boats that went to Luang Prabang were packed!).
And then I want to go to the '4000 islands' myself, but that hasn't happened yet, but someone else can probably tell you more about that. And if money is no problem, you can also fly from Siam Riep to Luang Prabang…and Huh Sai has the best chance to see Gibbons at The Gibbon Experience…the rest of the whirlwind adventures are fun, but Gibbons are hard to find!
Have fun !!!
…Huy Xai it must be…
B)
Go to Chiang Rai, by plane, bus, car. Then bus or Taxi to Chiang Khong. The bridge is finished, so you can cross the bridge (minibus?), and get visa on arrival.
Sorry, I forgot this is a Dutch website.
From Houay Xai you can take a bus or minibus to Luang Namtha. You can also sometimes go there by boat, a long open boat that can take five tourists or 8 to 10 local passengers. Used to depart from the old ferry departure point, now I'm not sure. Two days, nice trip. But only after about May 1st, until maybe November, when there is enough water. Down the river for a few hours, then up the Nam Tha, spend the night in Ban Khonkham in the boatman's house, then on to Luang Namtha the next day.
There is a lot of accommodation there, my favorite always "the Boatlanding Guest House and Restaurant", opposite where the boat arrives. Also there the best authentic food in all of Northern Laos.
http://Www.foodfromnorthernlaos.com
From LN many trips, treks, for one or more days. Rafting, poop, biking. The province has the largest number of different ethnic groups in all of Laos, some still dressed in their original costumes.
http://Www.pbase.com/kees5
Enjoy it!
For several months now, the ferry in Chiang Khong and Huay Xai can only be used by local people. The transition from Thailand to Laos or vice versa is now done via the new bridge, which is about 10 km from both places. As a result, spending the night in 1 or both places has become a more expensive affair due to the additional journeys by taxi or tuk tuk. The buses coming from Chiang Rai stop at the exit to the bridge, so you can get to the Thai border in a shorter distance. We made the cruise to Luang Prabang at the end of January with http://www.nagiofmekong.com/. You can arrange via email where they will pick you up and help with border formalities [email protected]. We paid 4.600 TB/person, including food, drinks on the boat and overnight stay in Pakbeng. They also paid for the transport from the Mekong to our hotel. I highly recommend you http://www.tripadvisor.nl/Hotel_Review-g295415-d3478255-Reviews-Singharat_Guest_House-Luang_Prabang_Luang_Prabang_Province.html recommend.
Yesterday we arrived in Siem Reap by bus from Pakse via the 4000 islands (2 nights in Pon's River Guest House (Don Khong, Laos) – Pension … – TripAdvisor). We paid for the buses and 2 transfers 300.000kip in travel office in Pakse. Afterwards, everyone who had booked with different agencies ended up on the same bus to Phnom Penh. The journey with a crowded bus + - 60 people took 11 hours to the junction Phnom Penh-Siem Reap. Then another 3 hours to Siem Reap, where we arrived at the bus station at about 3AM. The poor state of the road, the road works and 2 times a broken shock absorber were partly the cause of the major delay.