Chapter 58: Siamese Style, Labor Offices Abroad [Seeking Follow-up]
The four-hour voyage was soon over.
The plane landed smoothly at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport.
After the hatch opened, Chen Xuan followed the crowd of passengers across the connecting bridge with his backpack.
Traveling lightly, he contrasts sharply with the busy and noisy travelers around him.
Stepping on the escalator, he had already taken out the photocopies of his passport, entry and exit card, and electronic landing visa.
Go through the customs and go to the visa counter at the beginning of the VISA to submit the documents prepared in advance.
The electronic landing visa is E-VISA, which is still very convenient, and there is no need to queue up to fill in the information and apply on the spot.
The whole customs clearance process is very neat, and spending the extra 500 plants is worth it.
Suvarnabhumi Airport handles tens of millions of passengers per year.
As a modern international airport, it is still very well designed.
The signs are in Siamese, English and Chinese.
The electronic navigation screen is also available in three languages.
After entering the country smoothly, Chen Xuan's location is on the second floor of the airport.
Not far away are the banknote exchange points set up by the major Siamese local banks.
The exchange rate here is usually slightly lower than the daily international exchange rate, but slightly higher than the exchange point at the exit point of Xia Guo Airport, so as to earn a certain difference.
Chen Xuan exchanged some of the cash prepared in advance for 5,000 baht.
It's useless to redeem more, the vast majority of ATMs in Siam support UnionPay cards, and you can also use Alipay and WeChat to scan the code in big cities and scenic spots, so you don't have to worry about consumption.
Follow the signs and the next level is where you can take taxis and buses.
If you want to take a taxi, you have to use the electronic ticket machine.
The machines all have Chinese options, and you can pick up the ticket directly.
The ticket will show the parking space where the taxi is located and the license plate number.
If you find the corresponding parking space, you can get on the bus with your luggage.
Taxis in Siam start at just 35 baht, but it's not that close to the city.
As soon as Chen Xuan sat in the back seat, the driver with dark skin and a blue uniform greeted him in broken Chinese.
"The first monk howled!"
Chen Xuan lit up his phone and showed a picture to the driver.
There is a row of festive red red lanterns and a row of festive red lanterns.
“China Town?”
“ok.ok!”
"Look at this beauty, is it okay to mark?"
It is obviously not the first time for the driver to receive tourists from Xia Kingdom, and the business process is quite proficient.
Chen Xuan smiled and nodded, and the taxi left the parking area of Suvarnabhumi Airport and drove along the ring road towards Bangkok.
The distance is less than 30 kilometers, and it takes about half an hour without traffic jams.
It's 12:43 p.m. Summer Time, and Siam time is exactly one hour slower.
The weather in Bangkok is clear, with sparse white clouds drifting under the blue sky.
The temperature is 5~7°C higher than that in China, which is just right for wearing summer clothes.
There are many green mango trees along the roadside, and you can occasionally see plantain trees, linden trees and tamarind trees.
On the Circle Expressway, you can see the side view of Bangkok through the car window.
The golden dome of the stupa looms in the cracks of the towering buildings.
It's also a city with a lot of heritage.
The Chao Phraya River flows leisurely from Bangkok.
The city is home to modern high-rises as well as towering stupas and temples.
Once you enter the city, the traffic becomes dense.
On the streets, you can see young people dressed in fashionable clothes, and there are also vendors wearing flower cloth shirts with bamboo baskets.
On the way, when passing a square, there is a huge statue.
Holding a sword and spear, he stood solemnly wearing a "tripping tail mantle".
This is Ramkhamhaeng the Great of Siam.
It was this emperor who laid the foundation for Siam's current territory.
In the hearts of the Siamese people, he is like the first emperor of the Xia people.
In addition to stupas and temples, statues of emperors such as Ramkhamheng, Na Li Xuan, Chulalongkorn and so on can often be seen here, like some kind of mascot with the meaning of worship.
Chen Xuan's mood was very relaxed, enjoying the different scenery of a foreign country at will.
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More than ten minutes later, the taxi arrived at its destination.
After paying the fare, Chen Xuan got out of the car.
The 16.45-meter-high archway at the entrance of the street has four big characters on the book "Shengshou Wujiang", which is inscribed by Princess Sirindhorn of Siam.
That's right, his first stop was Bangkok's Chinatown.
Located in the western part of the city, it is one of Bangkok's most prosperous business districts.
It is about two kilometers long and consists of three main streets and several alleys.
At the same time, it is also a must-see attraction for tourists from the summer country to Bangkok, such as the famous Chinatown Night Market.
Chen Xuan strolled around, looking around like all ordinary tourists.
The streets are lined with signboards, both in architecture and in the past.
Food stores, department stores, hotels, grocery stores, shoe stores, craft stores, gold stores, and pharmacies abound.
As far as the eye can see, you can see signboards such as "Chinese Bird's Nest Shark Fin Restaurant", "Guizhou Moutai", "Shangjing Wang Zhihe Stinky Tofu", "Tong Ren Tang Pills", "Zhanggang Pien Tze Huang" and so on.
Moving on, there are also "Chaozhou Cinema" and "Chinese Cinema", as well as various kiosks selling Chinese magazines and newspapers.
The town is bustling with tourists from all over the world.
My ears are filled with Siamese, English and Chinese with a strong accent.
Chen Xuan skipped most of the shops, passed through the Yaowarat Road Night Market, and walked into Shilongjun Road.
The two ends of the road are connected to different neighborhoods.
Half of them belong to the Chinese community, and the other half is the Tianzhu community.
It is a mixed place in the western side of Bangkok.
There are noticeably fewer tourists, and there are a few old Toyota Vios and Vitz cars at least 20 years old parked on both sides of the street.
From time to time, he looked at the information on his phone to confirm the location.
It took more than ten minutes to find the target in a community alley on Shilongjun Road.
It was a small shop with a simple sign that read "Dahui Siam Labor Service Office Abroad".
The yellowed oxidized plastic curtain is plastered with all sorts of job postings.
It's a snakehead shop that has both light and dark.
It is said that they can easily solve the procedures that cannot be handled in terms of exit.
He is also well aware of the smuggling routes and contacts of Siam's neighboring countries.
You must know that Southeast Asian countries have always been the hardest hit areas for smuggling out of the country.
As early as the seventies and eighties, many Southeast Asians chose to smuggle across the Hong Kong River.
The perfect smuggling network has not disappeared, but has changed with the development of the times.
The core of recent years has not been Siam.
But after all, this place is the "crossroads" of Southeast Asia, and the significance is self-evident.
Chen Xuan was in contact with this aspect for the first time, so he didn't know what it was, so he could only take one step at a time, and if he had the heart to inquire, there would always be eyebrows.
Thinking of this, he pushed open the plastic curtain.
The store was filled with smoke, and behind the old table lay a stout man with short hair in a vest with tattooed arms.
The walls of the store are also plastered with job postings.
Slightly in the front position, there is also a small offering table, and there is a Kuman Tong sitting in it.
The air smelled like a mixture of curry and lime.
He frowned slightly, approached the table, reached out and tapped lightly.