An Alternative Way to Travel to Thailand

[Jun]

Three teenagers have decided to cycle from Wales to Thailand to visit their friend and raise money for charity.

Let's see if they make it. Central Europe so far.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgkr0k47lxpo

https://www.instagram.com/west.heads/

[atri1666]

Would like to take the train. Difficult to get to Moscow. After i would go to Beijing than Kunming. From Kunming to Vientiane and finally to Bangkok

[Gaybutton]

When I was still living in the USA, I always dreamed about taking a cruise to Thailand, if there were any. But I never did.

[Jun]

Would like to take the train. Difficult to get to Moscow. After i would go to Beijing than Kunming. From Kunming to Vientiane and finally to Bangkok

I'd have some interest in that, but circumstances need to change first.
#1 We need a better relationship with the Russian regime
#2 I'd want to do it in summer. Followed by at least a month in Thailand. So I need a part time gardener, or better still no garden.

[christianpfc]

"From Kunming to Vientiane and finally to Bangkok"
There is still a gap of about 20 km without passenger service between Vientiane and Nong Khai. You would have to take some road-based travel to bridge that gap. Good can already travel on rail all the way from China through Lao to Bangkok.

[Jun]

"From Kunming to Vientiane and finally to Bangkok"
There is still a gap of about 20 km without passenger service between Vientiane and Nong Khai. You would have to take some road-based travel to bridge that gap. Good can already travel on rail all the way from China through Lao to Bangkok.

This is idiotic Lao communist planning at it's finest. Big expensive railway stations in all the wrong places and no passenger connection between the two lines.

This can be compared with the Victorian capitalists, who built stations as close to the customers as they were allowed to. It's difficult to make money with no customers.
When the politicians banned them from building railways into the centre of London, they invented underground railways to circumvent that.
An idea which has caught on, with over 13,000 underground railway stations in the world.

[Gaybutton]

When the politicians banned them from building railways into the centre of London, they invented underground railways to circumvent that.
An idea which has caught on, with over 13,000 underground railway stations in the world.

As a side comment, that's very interesting. I never knew that. So that was how underground subway systems got started.