The Friendship Bridge

Across the Friendship Bridge

Contents:

  • Third Thai–Lao Friendship Bridge
  • A railway-motor bridge across the Amu Darya
  • Navigation menu
  • Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge

    • Two passport-size photographs are also required for the visa upon arrival. A Lao porter will extract your bags from the hold of the bus, and will escort you to the immigration counter.

    Third Thai–Lao Friendship Bridge

    Unlike in some countries, these porters can be trusted, and are very helpful in locating the correct forms you need. After immigration the porter will take you and your bags to Lao customs. There is no real inspection, but you still must pay 10 baht to the customs inspector.

    China built a $350 million bridge that ends in a dirt field in North Korea

    Then you will get a final examination from a dour and officious official in a Soviet-style uniform. Soon you are waved on, and your porter guides you to a kind of parking lot where there are taxis. At this point you must pay your porter. I suggest being generous because they are very helpful, entirely honest and very hard working.

    I think this warrants at least baht.

    A railway-motor bridge across the Amu Darya

    There will be at least one person in the parking lot that speaks English. Now you must bargain for the taxi fare to downtown Vientiane some forty-five minutes away on sometimes pretty bad roads. Just give the name of your hotel even if you have just pulled a name out of your guidebook to placate the immigration official.

    Its operation did not resume until Archived from the original on The Lao currency is the kip which is now officially valued at 7, kip to the dollar. It will take about an hour to get from the Thai side of the Friendship Bridge to the airport at Udon Thani. It was renamed to its current name from the " Yalu River Bridge " in This page was last edited on 27 July , at This flight takes 65 minutes.

    Given the situation in Laos, there is no need to worry about whether a room is available or not at the hotel you give. Through the interpreter, the taxi driver will suggest a price.

    Do not pay this price. You should not pay more than baht, though some travelers are able to get taxis for baht.

    Friendship Bridge may refer to: Bridges[edit]. Afghanistan–Uzbekistan Friendship Bridge, between Afghanistan and Uzbekistan; Amizade Bridge (meaning. The First Thai–Lao Friendship Bridge is a bridge over the Mekong, connecting Nong Khai Province and the city of Nong Khai in Thailand with Vientiane.

    It is not necessary to tip the taxi driver. If you choose to return from Laos to Thailand via this route, it is a little less clear-cut. However, your hotel can help in this regard.

    Advise your hotel's front desk about twenty-four hours in advance that you will require a taxi to take you to Friendship Bridge. You pay the hotel and not the driver.

    Nonetheless, the driver will greatly appreciate a small tip, preferably in U. You should leave the hotel about five hours before your flight time. This is a minute flight. The driver will let you off with your bags near the Lao immigration and customs posts not far from the east end of Friendship Bridge.

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    There are no customs inspections, and immigration stamps your passport with alacrity. At this point you will see an array of vehicles, including some vans.

    The Amu Darya railroad bridge running nearly three kilometers was strengthened with wooden piles. It was announced the largest feat of engineering of that time.

    Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge

    Alas, the bridge was in operation only 14 years: The traffic through the Amu Darya Bridge became so intensive that it required urgent modernization. The construction of a new ferry, now a railway, started in The Russian government allocated for bridge construction 5 million rubles - a good deal of money in those times. The construction was supervised by the outstanding engineer S. Olshevsky, who already had an experience in building large bridgeworks in West Siberian, Aral Sea, etc.

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