Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Most banks are found along Th Sukkasem and Th Ratpattana. Branches of Bangkok Bank
at Big C and Tesco-Lotus shopping centres open 10.30am to 7pm daily and there's an
AEON ATM in the Nevada Mall across from Big C.
8.30am-noon & 1-4.30pm Mon-Fri)
For visa exten-
Immigration Office
(
0 4271 5219; Th Jaiphasook;
sions.
Getting There & Away
AIR
Nok Air
( 0 2900 9955;
www.nokair.com
)
flies once daily to/from Bangkok's Don Muang Airport
(one way from 1400B).
Phu Sakon
(
8.30am-5pm Mon-Sat)
sells tick-
0 4271 2259; Th Sukkasem;
ets and can arrange an airport shuttle for 150B per person.
BUS
Sakon's
old bus terminal
(Th Ratpattana)
serves Ubon Ratchathani (180B to 232B, five hours,
nine daily), That Phanom (55B to 70B, 1¼ hours, frequent), Nakhon Phanom (70B to
88B, 1½ hours, every 30 minutes), Udon Thani (110B to 140B, three hours, every 30
minutes), Khon Kaen (173B, four hours, five daily) and Bangkok (392B to 588B, 11
hours, morning and early-evening departures only).
Buses for Khon Kaen and Udon Thani can also be boarded at the Esso petrol station in
the city.
There are VIP bus services to Bangkok (784B, 7.30pm and 7.45pm) with
999 VIP
( 0
4271 2860)
. Tickets are sold its office on Th Sukkasem and they also have an 8.30am 1st-
class bus (504B) departing from this office.
Getting Around
The bus terminal is 4km west of town. You can get downtown with a taxi (20B per kilo-
metre), motorcycle taxi (60B) and
sŏrng·tăa·ou
3 or 1422 (10B). Heading to the terminal,
sŏrng·tăa·ou
park near the market and then head north along Th Ratpattana.
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