Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
(
www.borderlinecollective.org
;
674/14 Th Intharakhiri; 10am-6pm Tue-Sat, 2-6pm Sun, tea garden 9am-6pm Tue-
Sun)
Selling arts and crafts items made by refugee women, the profits from this shop go
back into a women's collective and a child-assistance foundation. Upstairs, a gallery sells
paintings and the house is also home to tea garden and cookery course.
Walking Street
(Soi Rong Chak; 5-9pm Sat)
Every Saturday evening the small street by the police station is
closed to traffic, and in its place are vendors selling handicrafts, clothes and food.
MARKET
HANDICRAFTS
Fair Trade Shop
(
www.weave-women.org
;
656 Th Intharakhiri; 9am-5pm Mon-Sat)
One of three branches in northern
Thailand, this shop specialises in bright handcrafted cloth goods created by displaced wo-
men from Myanmar.
Information
Several centrally located banks have ATMs. There is no official tourist office in Mae Sot,
but Khrua Canadian is a good source of local information.
Immigration
( 0 5556 3000; Th Intharakhiri; 8.30am-4.30pm)
Located next to the Friendship
Bridge, this office can do visa extensions.
net @ all
(Th Intharakhiri; per hr 15B;
9am-10pm)
1155; 738/1 Th Intharakhiri)
Located east of the centre of town.
Tourist Police
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