Here's what's going to happen to your character:
He plans an elaborate escape through the jungle, and begins to provision himself out at Chatuchak weekend market with a backpack, machete, and a water bottle that says "same same but different", which always makes him laugh. He also finds a Canadian flag to sew onto the pack, as he is trying to discreetly flee the city on a night bus, and fears for his safety as an American.
He journeys to Khlong Kaeo Waterfall, where he sees tourists swimming and having fun, and it reminds him of the Leonardo DiCaprio film The Island. But this was no idyllic island, beyond the water lay some of Southeast Asia's most daunting jungle. He heads out, and in the first day alone he has encounters with a Malayan pit viper, a spider the size of his face, and the most deadly animal of them all, the mosquito. Luckily, the Thai hooker he got on his last night in Bangkok had given him a jar of tiger balm, instructing him that it could fix anything from a bug bite to a decapitation.
As the sun was setting on the first night, he debated if jail was not a worse place than this jungle, but he was free damnit, and that's all that mattered. On the second day, he came across signs warning of landmines, and the blown us carcass of a large jungle cat, and that's when he heard the click. After his life flashed before his eyes, and all of the decisions he made that led him to that spot, he said a quick prayer, and took his foot off of the mine. It didn't go off. Thankful for the second chance of life, he turned around and ran back into Thailand.
After a quick swim at the waterfall and with a new appreciation of life, he heads down to the Koh Kong border crossing. His plan is to find a local that will drive him across in the boot of their car, but once at the actual border he sees an opportunity to merely walk past the lines and blend in with the locals that are crossing back and forth. Luckily, there's a loud Australian arguing about the price of the visa on the Cambodian side, and he's able to slip past.
Once he makes it to Phnom Penh he checks into a guesthouse on st 172 for $6 a night. After a few days of debauchery, he is woken up by the police entering his room. It appears that the guy in the room next door, that he went out drinking with, died from an OD. Without a passport, he is brought in by the immigration police for questioning.
After a visit from a consular officer, he's able to get a new passport - but no help with the visa situation. Luckily, he can still use his cellphone in the lockup. He sets up a GoFundMe, which goes viral with his friends from high school. Thanks for the $3000 he raises, he's able to pay a sympathetic immigration official for the exit visa. His great Aunt Mary had bought him a one-way ticket home, but once at the airport he just couldn't shake the yellow fever, and boards a plane to Saigon instead....
Help a writer out?
All hotels and guest houses check and record passport details.
It would be safe for him to couch surf.
But if he chooses the wrong place to couch surf, there could be pandamonium.
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Are you not getting confused with the Thai/ Laos border?
I once cycled acroos the border from Vietnam to Cambodia at Phnom Da and completely missed both the Vietnam exit booth and the Cambodian entry booth only realizing my mistake when I was about 6k into Cambodia! There was a lot of screaming n shouting at each other from the officals when I returned but what I remember most was the officer on the Cambodian side had been asleep and he sorted out my visa while still in his underpants n vest. Lol
k440, something to do when you're pissed.
Quiet day at the office, Miguelito?
TheGrimReaper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:45 pmSlavedog, you do not belong on this forum as you talk too much sense.
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The movie "City of Ghosts" has Matt Dillon doing the exact same type of crossing you describe.s_konk wrote: ↑Sun Nov 24, 2019 7:03 pmHi gents, I'm a mid-list thriller author from the States working on a new novel in a series.
I have a few quick questions about a storyline in my upcoming work. Hoping to add a bit more realism. Figured you all where the people to ask.
Hopefully someone here could help? There's a free copy of my past two books in it for anyone interested (can send a Kindle version if you'd like). Or I will name a character after one of you.
The lead character, Ryan, has escaped from Thai authorities after being detained and released in Bangkok for a trumped-up charge involving an arms-dealing general he's investigating.
He's got to leave Thailand, but the police are still holding his passport. He decides to make his way to Cambodia, as that's the more porous border.
--Where could he cross without a passport?
--Could he just walk across a relatively untrafficed border "like he owns the place" without being detained? All macho-swagger and ego? I've talked to some guys that lived in Bangkok and they said people walked across the Trat, Thailand border all the time.
--Is there an option to take a boat to Cambodia from one of the Thai islands?
--Once in Cambodia, what does he do? Head straight to PP? Report a stolen passport at the embassy? How does he explain a missing passport or no record of entering the country?
Just looking for something plausible. I have a pretty decent sized readership with a lot of expats and ex-servicemen and don't want to be called out for a storyline that's wildly wrong. I've been to Cambodia twice but this stuff is all outside my scope of knowledge.
PM me if you want more info. Thanks again.
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Since I was asked by the clown in chief to chime in regarding the jet ski story I might oblige but before that I am thinking of a better no passport in and out Thailand day trip I did a few years back.
As a bunch of my in-laws and I were playing tourists in the Battabang province around 2012/2014, my uncle suggested we should go to the next big C over the border for a bit of shopping.
I objected that I didn’t have my passport and contrary to them that might pose a problem but he replied that he was good friend with a border town chief of police and I had nothing to worry about.
I can’t remember the name of the town but it was in between Poipet and Pailin and certainly not an international border crossing.
When we arrived at the local police guy’s house, we were asked to keep all guns at his house. To my surprise all men except my father in law, the most senior official in our party obliged. After what looked like two no hammer 38 and a short barrel glock were put in safe keeping, our filled to the brink two cars plus the local police’s one left for the border post. I am talking old Camrys and Pajero, no big fancy new SUVs and no tinted windows.
Once at the border we were told to stay in the cars. The police guy (might have been a captain or commandant at max) went out to speak to both khmers and Thais on duty border guards and let us go on our way after telling my uncle he would find the big C about 25km down the road.
The return crossing to Cambodia was even more uneventful as we were just waved in.
I must say I felt very uneasy during the entire journey but maybe not for the reason one might suspect; I very much doubted about my in-laws wrong traffic direction driving abilities as I was very much aware about what the consequences of a traffic accident could be.
Now time for a few more cocktails at the hotel lounge and maybe the jet ski border crossing story later on.
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As a bunch of my in-laws and I were playing tourists in the Battabang province around 2012/2014, my uncle suggested we should go to the next big C over the border for a bit of shopping.
I objected that I didn’t have my passport and contrary to them that might pose a problem but he replied that he was good friend with a border town chief of police and I had nothing to worry about.
I can’t remember the name of the town but it was in between Poipet and Pailin and certainly not an international border crossing.
When we arrived at the local police guy’s house, we were asked to keep all guns at his house. To my surprise all men except my father in law, the most senior official in our party obliged. After what looked like two no hammer 38 and a short barrel glock were put in safe keeping, our filled to the brink two cars plus the local police’s one left for the border post. I am talking old Camrys and Pajero, no big fancy new SUVs and no tinted windows.
Once at the border we were told to stay in the cars. The police guy (might have been a captain or commandant at max) went out to speak to both khmers and Thais on duty border guards and let us go on our way after telling my uncle he would find the big C about 25km down the road.
The return crossing to Cambodia was even more uneventful as we were just waved in.
I must say I felt very uneasy during the entire journey but maybe not for the reason one might suspect; I very much doubted about my in-laws wrong traffic direction driving abilities as I was very much aware about what the consequences of a traffic accident could be.
Now time for a few more cocktails at the hotel lounge and maybe the jet ski border crossing story later on.
BDS
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I have to say that I have never crossed into Thailand without passport control.
I have however crossed into Vietnam numerous times without one, probably a dozen times in 2003 and 2004. Then a couple of times last year.
Also back in '03/'04/'05 I probably crossed into Laos 7 or 8 times in the same manner.
All of these trips were 100% uneventful. Most of them were just driving down a dirty back road in a car full of Khmers, or the same on a moto with a Khmer, and then arriving in a town in a different country.
All very boring I know.
The only 'exciting' illegal border crossing I ever did was from Tunisia into Libya in 1997 - bit that is a story for another time and place.
I have however crossed into Vietnam numerous times without one, probably a dozen times in 2003 and 2004. Then a couple of times last year.
Also back in '03/'04/'05 I probably crossed into Laos 7 or 8 times in the same manner.
All of these trips were 100% uneventful. Most of them were just driving down a dirty back road in a car full of Khmers, or the same on a moto with a Khmer, and then arriving in a town in a different country.
All very boring I know.
The only 'exciting' illegal border crossing I ever did was from Tunisia into Libya in 1997 - bit that is a story for another time and place.
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One time I left my 8-year-old little sister at the border while myself and the misses went over and shopped. It was her problem for not bringing her passport. When we crossed back she was gone. She had just gotten bored and walked home.
Mind you this was at a Swiss-French crossing and not Poipet-Aranyaprathet.
Mind you this was at a Swiss-French crossing and not Poipet-Aranyaprathet.
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fugitive ryan should identify a forriner with similar features in phnum penh. try st 172 etc
steal a vehilce & allow it to drive into something to make it look like a serious accident in some out of the way location on a dark & dirty night.
place by now murdered with mutilated face & tattoes & any other identifying features victim forriner inside vehicle sans passport
rupture fuel tank & ignite
go to vietnam & fly out using stolen passport from murdered victim
steal a vehilce & allow it to drive into something to make it look like a serious accident in some out of the way location on a dark & dirty night.
place by now murdered with mutilated face & tattoes & any other identifying features victim forriner inside vehicle sans passport
rupture fuel tank & ignite
go to vietnam & fly out using stolen passport from murdered victim
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