thailand-laos-(vietnam)
« on: Dec 23rd, 2002, 6:14am » Quote Modify Remove
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We are a dutch boy and girl who currently driving on our XT600's through SE-Asia. A few days ago we tried to get into Vietnam from Laos at the Cau Treo bordercrossing but we failed. We've pleaded for an hour but they wouldn't bulge. Reasons mentioned were: too many cc's, no permission from local police ministery 100 km uproad, Vietnam not mentioned on the frontpage of our carnets and additional subwriting at the second page (along with laos, malaysia, thailand etc.) including stamp and signs were not believed as genuine.
The form that you have on your site can not be used and that form is even old. They have a new form now for declaring bagages, which off course we couldn't use either.
We came into Laos from Thailand at the Friendship Bridge-crossing. There was abolutely no probleme there. Our carnets were stamped within 10
minutes and there was no expiration date mentioned. In Thailand we almost believed the local TAT in Udon Tani who informed us that crossing the bridge was impossible and that Laos would not let us in, unless when we put our bikes on a pick-up and imported them like that. The charge for this was "only" 4000 baht per bike. We are glad that we did not believe them !
Contrary to what is mentioned on the site we did not have to fill in any forms.....but perhaps we were lucky or we didn't have to because of our carnets.
Route 13 is in good shape all the way from Luang Prabang to Pakse in the South, except some potholes and muddy parts in the mountainous area.
The several detours between Savannakhet and Tha Kaek can easily be skipped by just driving past the barricades
Bart and Irene
« on: Dec 23rd, 2002, 6:14am » Quote Modify Remove
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We are a dutch boy and girl who currently driving on our XT600's through SE-Asia. A few days ago we tried to get into Vietnam from Laos at the Cau Treo bordercrossing but we failed. We've pleaded for an hour but they wouldn't bulge. Reasons mentioned were: too many cc's, no permission from local police ministery 100 km uproad, Vietnam not mentioned on the frontpage of our carnets and additional subwriting at the second page (along with laos, malaysia, thailand etc.) including stamp and signs were not believed as genuine.
The form that you have on your site can not be used and that form is even old. They have a new form now for declaring bagages, which off course we couldn't use either.
We came into Laos from Thailand at the Friendship Bridge-crossing. There was abolutely no probleme there. Our carnets were stamped within 10
minutes and there was no expiration date mentioned. In Thailand we almost believed the local TAT in Udon Tani who informed us that crossing the bridge was impossible and that Laos would not let us in, unless when we put our bikes on a pick-up and imported them like that. The charge for this was "only" 4000 baht per bike. We are glad that we did not believe them !
Contrary to what is mentioned on the site we did not have to fill in any forms.....but perhaps we were lucky or we didn't have to because of our carnets.
Route 13 is in good shape all the way from Luang Prabang to Pakse in the South, except some potholes and muddy parts in the mountainous area.
The several detours between Savannakhet and Tha Kaek can easily be skipped by just driving past the barricades
Bart and Irene