Monday, January 15, 2018

Trip to Chiang Mai for visa extension

They told me I could get 1 week visa extension at the immigration office in Chiang Mai, so I wake up as usual and at 7 I hop on in the bus that didn’t really stopped, a woman shows me to sit in the back between 2 monks and gets 34 baht for the ride. The doors are open, they don’t close. Another woman wants to sit in the back with us. We get rearranged, the monks cannot sit close to the woman.

There’s 2 rules: no smoking and everyone for himself.
But what am I talking? Safety?

Ok, now my bus seems safe, I’m relieved. It reminds me a bit of how I went to school, hanging on the stairs of the tram outside. It could start with the doors open.
The bus goes to terminal 1. From here I take a red pick up to the immigration office via railway station. He asked 100, and he got it.
10:00 gave the papers and 1900 baht, hoping for a 7 days visa extension.
Meanwhile got hungry, found this lady on a side street. She wanted 35baht for the food. Less than 1€. 

Ok, it was simple but tasty. 
Then went back to the immigration office. Here I spent 75 for a coffee...
4 Numbers before mine... lunch break 1h...
13:20 got my alien extension visa for 7 more days. The fine will be smaller when we leave the kingdom...

13:43 sitting in another taxi for another 100, hoping to get to a yellow car that hopefully drives to Chom Thong.
14:11 transferred directly into an yellow car that seemed like it was waiting for me, and I’m on my way back to Chom Thong.
4 o’clock landed in Chom Thong. Now back to searching.

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