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Home » Reader question » Reader question: Traveling through Thailand yourself, who has tips?
Dear readers,
My wife and I have done a tour with Kras twice and now want to travel in Thailand ourselves. We fly to Chang Mai to visit some things there. After that we want to go to Si Chiang Mai and then to Khao Yai, then actually to Koh Chang and then from Bangkok back to Amsterdam. We have 2 weeks.
The question is now whether buses and/or trains run between these destinations, and is this trip somewhat feasible in 3 weeks. All tips are welcome.
Thank you in advance.
Regards,
Robert and Yvonne
I assume you mean Si Chiang Mai in Nongkhai province?
There is an express bus from Chiang Mai to Udon Thani and it passes through Loei; maybe there is a bus Chiang Mai to Loei sec.
In Loei there must be a bus to Nongkhai and it comes through Si CM. Otherwise you travel to Udon and try to get on the express bus Bangkok to Si CM.
Then to Khao Yai. You can get on the express bus to Bangkok in Si CM and get off in the Khorat region. I can't help you with the process after that.
I would rent a car if you have a driver's license. Outside of Bangkok, driving in Thailand is relaxed. The roads are generally good and the traffic is much quieter than you are used to in the Netherlands. You have to drive on the left, but you get used to that quickly. Almost all rental cars are equipped with an automatic transmission. The big advantage is that you spend less time traveling and you get to places that are not so easy to reach with public transport. Really recommended.
I've been traveling through Thailand this way for years and I like it. My 75-year-old father also rented a car in Thailand for the first time last year. He liked it so much that he is going again next year.
Hallo,
We fly to Chiang Mai and from there want to Si Chiang Mai and from there to Khao Yai.
And then to a beach on Koh Chang, for example.
These are the main points we want to visit, everything we encounter in between is included.
If we rent a car in Chiang Mai, we can also return it somewhere else, because going back and forth to Chiang Mai is not an option.
Cheers,
Rob
That depends on the landlord. So you should check that before you rent a car somewhere.
In 2009 we made a tour by public transport, including to Chiang Mai and Khao Yai. Traveling by bus is fine and not expensive. At the bus stations it is usually no problem at all to get information about the right route and the right bus.
This year we rented a car for the first time. This in turn has the advantage that you can go your own way. I had bought a Southeast Asia map on my tomtom and it led us flawlessly to where we wanted to be. And as Jeroen wrote: driving in Thailand is easy to do.
Traveling by bus certainly offers an extra dimension to your trip. You are, as it were, forced to communicate with the Thai to get to the right destination and to surrender to all those unexpected events such as detours, stopping to repair something, waiting until someone has a cargo bike load of fruit and vegetables on the roof loaded (and later wait until he has taken everything off again). Really worth experiencing it all. I would definitely do it sometime.
Hallo,
We have already made some adjustments to the trip.
We want to travel from Chiang Mai to Nong Khai on January 31 to go from there to Vientiane in Laos for a few days and then to Khao Yai.
All tips are welcome.
thanks in advance
gr
Rob