Timeline for Which is the most obscure border crossing available to foreigners with VOA from Thailand to Laos?
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| Oct 10, 2023 at 13:16 | vote | accept | hippietrail | ||
| Oct 9, 2023 at 19:00 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Oct 9, 2023 at 14:00 | comment | added | hippietrail | There are or were previously casinos right next to almost all of the border crossings with China and Thailand where they're not legal in the other countries where the status is "fuzzy". There used to be a huge complex at the Laos/China border until the Chinese government ordered it shut down due to gang murders etc. It was being used by the people building the Belt and Road railway into Laos last time I was there. On my last trip before covid there was a smaller one at the Thai Cambodia border and the locals I met told me it was all Thais and Chinese that use it. | |
| Oct 9, 2023 at 13:34 | comment | added | Hilmar | We once tried to cross the Mekong into Laos at the Golden Triangle. We could look at it but they didn't let us to dock. Just a few days earlier they had closed the border due to a new-fangled disease in China called "Covid" :-). That was certainly not an "obscure" crossing: the Thai side is rather bucolic but the Laos side looked like Las Vegas: primarily casinos and hotels designed to sift money out Thai gambling tourists (gambling being illegal in Thailand). | |
| Oct 9, 2023 at 11:45 | answer | added | lambshaanxy | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 9, 2023 at 10:57 | history | asked | hippietrail | CC BY-SA 4.0 |