je pars en asie fin janvier début février 2006. Je compte prends mon billet avec connaisseur du voyage pour bangkok. Et une question se pose concernant les visas. je compte faire un tour a ventiane (laos) puis au vietnam, remonter par le cambodge et finir par la thailande. environ 3 ou 4 mois.
quelles est la meilleures solutions prendre les visas directement ici en france en france ou alors les prendre a bangkok ????
merci des réponses car ici ils sont hyper cher 86 euros pour le vietnam pour 1 mois.....ouf !!!!!
Oui, prends tes visas sur place aux frontières ...... et si tu peux visiter le Cambodge avant le Vietnam, tu paieras le visa pour ce pays deux fois rien au regard de ce qu'il t'en couterait en France ou ailleurs ......
86 euros pour le Vietnam ........ et moins de 30 euros si tu le prends à Phnom Penh, le calcul est vite fait ......
Au frontière, c'est vraiment la meilleure solution, cela te coutera presque rien.... il y a juste le Viet-Nam qui sont un peu plus sévère la-dessus.. mais pour le Laos et le Cambodge, il n'y a rien de plus facile...
merci alan pour tes renseignements ils me seront précieux. as tu des infos pr les reseaux tél. en asie. j'ai fait débloqué mon portable et je ne serais + chez bouygues a compter du 12 février mais je souhaite rester en conatc avec la france au cas ou...
que faire ? y a t-il des puces a acheter en asie et qui marchent avec les portables francais ?
Si tu as un abonnement international pas de problèmes pour téléphonner depuis la Thaïlande.
Sinon le mieux et d'acheter des cartes prépayées. Le meilleur marché en Thaïlande reste les call center ou tu peux appeler en Europe pour pas cher (plusieurs cyber café proposent ce service)
Tu peux utiliser un portable français avec une puce (carte SIM) locale et des cartes prépayées. Il y a plusieurs opérateurs : AIS, DTAC, Orange. Le réseau AIS est le plus étendu à ce jour. C'est celui que j'utilise... Selon le numéro que tu choisis parmi ceux disponibles chez le revendeur, le coût est plus ou moins important, mais tu peux facilement trouver une puce à partir de 250 bahts (qui souvent, contient déjà pour 50 bahts de télécommunications).
Tu peux ensuite acheter des cartes prépayées de l'opérateur choisi pour différentes valeurs (300, 500, 800 bahts par exemple). Chez AIS, les cartes s'appellent "1-2-Call" (one-two-call, prononcé à l'anglaise !). Cela fonctionne par un long code que tu dois entrer après avoir composé un numéro de téléphone spécial. Il y a une durée de validité plus ou moins longue en fonction du montant de ta carte. Evidemment, si tu as utilisé tout ton crédit avant la fin de la période de validité, il faudra "recharger" ta puce...
Si tu passes à Bangkok, va faire un tour à MBK, c'est probablement la meilleure adresse pour faire des affaires en téléphonie, et surtout, tu peux y trouver des vendeurs qui parlent suffisamment bien anglais et qui t'expliqueront le principe et répondront à tes questions.
Une autre solution intéressante, ce sont les cartes internationales que tu peux acheter dans le bureau de la compagnie de téléphone CAT par exemple. Pour un montant équivalent (par exemple 500 bahts), tu peux téléphoner plus longtemps qu'avec les opérateurs de téléphonie mobile. Tu peux utiliser ce type de carte dans les cabines téléphoniques ou avec ton portable (du moment que tu puisses composer le numéro d'accès et les codes de cette carte). Avec 500 bahts, on peut téléphoner environ 1 heure 20 en France depuis la Thaïlande si on utilise la carte internationale et environ 35 à 45 minutes avec une carte d'un montant équivalent de chez AIS.
Tu peux aussi passer par des "guichets" d'appels internationaux qui sont tenus par des Thaïs en pleine rue dans certains coins touristiques. Je ne sais pas si c'est bien légal (cela ressemble à des stands de vendeurs à la sauvette !), mais ce n'est pas très cher. Il me semble qu'ils utilisent en fait des périodes de promotion de certains opérateurs où il est possible de téléphoner n'importe où gratuitement ou à des tarifs ridicules pendant une journée).
Et il y a aussi des solutions sur Internet comme indiqué précédemment.
tu m'as l'air bien au point avec l'Asie donc je me permets de te proposer le plan de mon periple pour que tu me dises ce que tu en penses. merci d'avance.
je compte partir de paris pour aller a Bangkok fin janvier 2006, et me rendre presque de suite, au Laos notamment ventiane, remonter par le nord du laos (voir vang vieng, luang prabang, ...) et passer la fontière au nord-est pour le Vietnam.
aller a hanoi, voire la baie d'along et redescendre vers la cité impériale Hué, puis ensuite saigon. passer la frontière et aller,
au Cambodge voire la cité d'Angor et finir par le sud de la thailande style puket pour terminer la boucle et finir a bangkok.
Ceci en 3 mois ou 4 mois voire peut-etre +. j'ai un budget d'environ 6000 euros. qu'en penses tu ? c suffisant...
enfin quelques questions, pour passer du cambodge en thailande je souhaite pas passer par bangkok (etant donné que c'est le terminus pour moi, aucun interet de passer 2 fois sur le même chemin!) j'aimerais aller directement a puket ou ailleurs ds le sud thailandais. crois tu que se soit possible ? et si oui d'où a où ?
Pour les visas c apparament - cher là-bas mais la durée de ces derniers et aussi relative (style au laos a la frontière il dure 15 jours et pour le faire renouveler il faut aller a ventiane...!!!!!). Cela ne risque pas de poser un problème ?
Voilà merci de m'aider a préparer ce petit périple.
encore bravo pour tes carnets 😐 !
J'ai failli passer à côté de ta réponse à ce post ici et à ta demande de renseignements ..... je n'ai pas toutes les clés pour voyager en Asie du Sud Est, on est plusieurs à avoir l'expérience de ces pays, mais je peux te donner quelques avis ne regardant que moi .....
Moi, j'aurais peut être fait la boucle de l'autre sens pour plus de commodité et facilités .... et aussi économies sachant qu'à Phnom Penh on a le visa pour le Vietnam pour à peine 30 USD .... et puis celà te permettait d'éviter Bangkok deux fois, plus facilement .....
Bangkok en arrivée ..... descendre sur Koh Chang et passer la frontière au Sud par trat, la Côte au Sud, puis Phnom Penh et faire l'A.R. sur Angkor avant de revenir sur P.P. pour passer la frontière vietnamienne, Saigon et le delta du Mékong, remonter le pays et passer la frontière à Dien bien Phu pour voir les tribus du Nord Laos et descendre ensuite sur Luang Prabang, Vientiane et rentrer en Thailande tout en longeant le Mékong jusquà Chiang Khan et si tu as le temps encore aller faire un tour sur Chiang Mai avant de redescendre soit sur Phuket, soit sur Bangkok .....
Au Vietnam, essaye de faire la boucle au Nord prés de la frontière chinoise qui est intéressante aux dires de nombreux voyageurs .....
6000 euros pour trois ou quatre mois, celà est largement suffisant pour voyager dans de bonnes conditions et pouvoir profiter quelque peu sans trop se priver ......
donc si j'ai bien compris avec mon portable débloqué je pourrais envoyer des sms en france ou tél. si je prends une carte puce ais par exemple ?
bye jean michel.
Bonjour, Jean-Michel !
Pour les envois de SMS à l'international, je ne suis pas sûr que cela fonctionne (jamais essayé moi-même, n'étant pas un grand fan de ce type de communication). Tu devras peut-être poser la question à un revendeur à MBK, par exemple...
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