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I'm an Australian citizen currently in Bangkok deciding where to travel (preferably overland) next.

I just read that for Cambodia I would need to get a full-page visa, but I only have three such pages left and I'm conserving them for when I really have to use them, like China and Mongolia.

I've read that for Laos I can get a visa on arrival when crossing the border and I need to provide a passport photo for it. The photo requirement makes it seem like it would be a full page visa but unlike the info I found for Cambodia, that is not specifically stated.

(Australian passports do not have the possibility of adding extra pages.)

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It seems that it needs a full page, I figured this out by searching for Laos visa photos in google. It always showed a full page visa except for older visas where it was a stamp. I guess you will end up with two empty pages :)

Laos visa

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NOTICE: As you can see from the below comments, the answer MeNoTalk gave is the correct one. You will need at least one page the for the Visa, and likely more space for the stamps as you can see on the second image below.

On google images you can find the same that MeNoTalk posted, but those types of visa are normally used by embassies, since they need to be stamped off later on arrival so you cannot use it multiple times. When you do visa-on-arrival, this is not needed, and a direct stamp with todays date does the trick. I would assume therefore that they simply stamp the passport instead of a sticker.

I found several different stamps online, some older such as this here: enter image description here

And some newer such as this here: enter image description here

On top of that about.com mentions the visa-on-arrival to be a stamp.

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