Hello again family and friends! This is the site for my new travel blog that will follow my travels through Thailand. This time I will be accompanied by my good friend, Brent Whitley. We will be traveling for 15 days. I will try to update this site as much as I can throughout the trip. Happy New Year everybody and see you when I return!
-Alec
January 16, 2010
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Change of Plans
January 16, 2010
Day 5
Two things didn’t go as planned this morning. Three Pagodas Pass is a short drive from here and we heard that you could cross over to the border of Burma and back. It turns out that if you cross over into Burma you would have to fly back into Thailand. We heard this from some of the other distant travelers who were staying at the Burmese Inn with us. It sounded farfetched but we simply did not have the time to make the risk.
Then we found out that in order to get to Mae Sot from Sangkraburi, we would have to go all the way back to Bangkok just to get on the major freeway that goes to Mae Sot. At this point we were pretty much at a dead end here being so close the Burmese border. No bus routes, rail routes, or major roads pass north through this mountain range so we were pretty much forced to go back to Bangkok.
So we sucked it up and got onto the next bus headed towards Bangkok. It took 6 hours to get there. When we arrived the city was busier than it was before. It’s the weekend so everybody was out. We took a motorbike taxi to the Skytrain, then the Skytrain took us end of the line where our hotel is, and walked from there.
Now we are back at the Imm Fusion again. I guess now is a good opportunity to shower and change. Tomorrow morning we are going to take the Eastern Oriental Express across the central plains to Chiang Mai.
