Back in Bangkok after a trip to some southern islands and Malaysia - but only for an hour. I can see you thinking: why? Don't worry, I'll explain you.When you enter Thailand, you obtain a stamp with which you can stay for 30 days. But what happens after that? If you're stupid and overstay the 30 days, you have to pay a fine - depending on the amount of days you overstay. But if you're smart - like us - you think about it in advance and come up with a plan.
We had two possibilities. The first was to get a 7 day visa. Which costs 2000 THB (about 40 euros). The second was to leave the country and re-enter to get an extra two weeks. That last possibility sounded best (and cheapest) - so up we went to Malaysia, all the way to the south.
We left Thailand and thought, this is easy! All we do is cross the road and come back into Thailand. I got my stamp and was waiting for Loes when the customs officer called me back. 'Passport!', he said. I gave it back to him and when he realised that someting was wrong, he put 'cancelled' over my stamp. What was this?
'You need to go to Malaysia first and get a stamp!'
Aha. We needed to walk 400 meters, enter Malaysia, get a stamp, and come back. So that's what we did. I took quite a while since we were carrying our backpacks with us.
We came back and the guy looked at my passport, looked again and then nodded his head. 'Two stamps!' he shouted. How could we be so stupid? We needed not only to enter Malaysia but also leave it. Two stamps...
There we went again. Down the road, grumpy, tired and hot because of the backpacks. When the customs guy saw us for the third time he started laughing and talking to his colleague. 'Those stupid girls!', he must have been saying. But we didn't care, we got our two weeks extra in Thailand!
After going to the islands of Koh Phagnan and Koh Tao we went to Khao Sok national park for a few days. Right now we're back in Bangkok, waiting for my sister Loes to arrive!
Zussie!
ReplyDeleteNog een paar uurtjes en ik vlieg naar jullie! Ik verwacht natuurlijk wel een feestelijk welkom op het vliegveld he ;) haha.
Zie je morgen!
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Tja, bureaucratie komt overal in de wereld voor maar ik krijg wel eens de indruk dat het erger wordt naarmate een land armer en/of minder democratisch is. Maar je hebt je stempels (hoeveel in totaal nu???) en je kunt nog lekker even Thailandhoppen met de twee Loesjes. Pas goed op je zusje (zeg ik natuurlijk ook tegen ons Loes) en laat haar maar eens al dat moois van Thailand zien dat jullie al ontdekt hebben.
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GIRLIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE and all that!!! What a funny day and all that. But, i mean: DOES IT MAAAATTER?? Hahaha. You know yeah, they told us so many times yeah how to do this yeah. We are bad gals. I am sick of you yeah. We moeten altijd alles doen zoals ik het wil, dat heb ik toch al eens verteld yeah?? Hoe zullen we trouwens naar Noord Thailand gaan, met de bus ofzo?? En euh, es tut mir soooo leit das ich so annoying bin!! X
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