Articles tagged with "Thailand"
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Posted on: Further Wanderings | 2008-07-19 05:44:52
Wow. Didn't think I'd be doing this again so soon.
In this instance the countries involved are Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, and we didn't even use air travel!
We had some minor problems purchasing our train tickets for the Bangkok-Malaysia jou
Posted on: Further Wanderings | 2008-07-19 02:01:40
Upon returning to Bangkok we set about achieving two important goals:
1. Have as pleasant a rest as possible in between two big spells of travel (back from Cambodia, on to Malaysia.)
2. Eat as much yummy Thai food as possible during our short stay i
Posted on: Quest to See the World | 2008-07-13 20:48:04
It took me 20.5 hours to get here, but i finally made it to Ko Pha Ngan in the gulf. I was originally going to the Andaman coast and then come here, but i need to relax a bit. I left the hotel in Bangkok at 6:30pm last night to head to the train station a
Posted on: Quest to See the World | 2008-07-11 23:51:40
oh no, i don't even know where to start. it's so difficult when i get so far behind, and i don't even have my notes with me. i guess i'll start with the palm reading since you all are son interested. here goes....
So Dale's dad met us at the bus statio
Posted on: Quest to See the World | 2008-07-10 20:16:40
We haven't disappeared, it's just hard to keep up when traveling with others. Since I last updated we've bathed elephants, ridden on every class of train and tuk tuk, fed wild monkeys sunflower seeds (stacy even got a monkey scratch!!! yikes!!), fed a bab
Posted on: The big relax | 2008-07-09 16:13:45
For those of you that aren't on Facebook. Remember gang, click on them to make them bigger! All photo's with water in them were taken in Laos. The country isn't flooded or anything, it just so happens that they came out that way. The rest are from Thailan
Posted on: Quest to See the World | 2008-07-04 15:07:18
Yesterday morning we woke up, got some breakfast, and caught a taxi to the bus station. Everyone is soooo helpful! When we arrived at the station we were quickly spotted, I said the name of the town, and we were guided to the right window to buy the ticke
Posted on: Further Wanderings | 2008-07-04 05:42:12
A quick entry just to get us up to date:
We left Chittagong at 14:35, with the only hitch being a minor disagreement with our autorickshaw driver about exactly where he'd agreed to take us and for how much.
Chittagong harbour from the air
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Posted on: Quest to See the World | 2008-07-02 21:37:48
Well today we started the day off with some Muesli w/ yogurt and fruit for a buck, a huge bowl, and then headed for the public transport boat again. We took it down to the skytrain which is like, well you can imagine, a subway on a line up above the stree
Posted on: Quest to See the World | 2008-07-01 20:43:27
It's 7:49 and they are still sleeping, but it's the perfect time to get some blogging in. I didn't think that the time change has been that difficult to adjust to until it got to be around 8pm and all of a sudden I felt sooooo tired and I wasn't able to w
Posted on: Quest to See the World | 2008-06-30 19:37:26
So, on Saturday my mom and I got dropped off at the Pittsburgh airport at 8:30am & i took off at 9:30 to Phili where I met up with my mom when her flight got in an hour after mine. We made it to L.A. uneventfully at 5pm west coast time. Of course Stac
Posted on: The big relax | 2008-06-18 09:12:33
The past few days have been both amazing and frightening in nearly equal measures. Two days ago we went on our excursion to the floating market, a chaotic place where bad smells and thick black mists of flies are the order of the day. It reminded me of a
Posted on: The big relax | 2008-06-15 14:45:56
"Do not, under any circumstances, accept tuk-tuk rides from people you happen to meet by chance on the street. Be they students, helpful strangers, or possibly even government officials. You will inevitably end up in a gem shop somewhere being pressured
Posted on: The big relax | 2008-06-14 16:38:15
That's right, we got to Bangkok. All has been going relatively swimmingly. Yesterday Lauren and I found our way to Kaosan road asap and drank enough to give us both hangovers in the morning. Easy times, easy times. Until today of course.
Today was a
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-06-07 03:34:21
Well, enough of politics and the weariness of world crises.
When I couldn't get a visa for a three day trip to Burma (should have used a travel agent instead of going to the embassy myself) and to keep from losing the money for the flight, my Thai frie
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-05-15 17:41:59
This morning, while reading the Bangkok Post outside a certain BonCafe near my guesthouse in Bangkok, I had to LOL. Writing about the movie "Iron Man" the Thai reviewer/humorist says "Iron Man saves a bunch of Afghan families...highlights Hollywood's ob
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-05-12 03:34:35
Flew back from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia to Krabi yesterday. We are staying in the J Hotel...same one we stayed in last time here...on the top floor with a view of the ocean and karsts for 450 baht...about $14.
The karsts are as beautiful as ever but the l
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-05-06 19:42:58
Last week Amy, Josh's wife, flew down to Samui from Beijing with a colleague from her international school where they teach history. Four short days but it was a treat to see them!
Koh Samui to Trang to Krabi
The day before they left Doug, Luk and I d
Posted on: The Wobble | 2008-05-03 05:29:43
I am sat here with a cold bottle of san miguel beer in the heart of manila, the capital of the philippines. When I landed in chiang mai about 10 days ago I had neither thought nor intention of visiting the philippines on this trip, goes to show how things
Posted on: a i m l e s s | 2008-04-26 04:14:57
The only way to truly experience this place is to exhale deeply when you say it.
From KoPhangan, Th...
Though parts are overcrowded by foreigners, the island maintains so much natural beauty. The coast differs greatly from rocky shore to
Posted on: a i m l e s s | 2008-04-26 02:41:55
The Thai new year begins in mid April, with a big water festival called Songkran. It is celebrated all around the country, in big cities, the airport, villages, roadside restaurants, etc.
We arrived in Bangkok just in the thick of it. I knew th
Posted on: The Wobble | 2008-04-23 01:16:01
150 years before ayuthaya became the capital of Siam/Thailand, sukhothai was the centre of the thai civilization. Again the bloody Burmese and their conquering dispositions put paid to the town forcing the thais to move further south. I figured it was def
Posted on: The Wobble | 2008-04-20 06:06:04
Its a tough one to pronounce - you can imagine the difficulty I had at the bus station when I had to get the correct bus. Think its something like Ah-u-tee-ah. So where is ayutthaya? First of all it is not in cambodia, its a small town about an hour north
Posted on: The Wobble | 2008-04-16 04:51:00
Alex Garland has a lot to answer for, from the ko sahn road I took an overnight bus to the port of surat thani to connect with the ferry that services Ko Tao, Ko Phan Nang and Ko Samui. The trip took 15 hours in total and apart from the temperature you'd
Posted on: The Wobble | 2008-04-15 22:18:04
Hey All - I've posted up another batch of photos on my facebook.
Should be able to see them here
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-04-15 21:28:35
Young and old revelers hanging off of pickups and sangtaews fling plastic pans of water from a garbage can at the traffic going in the opposite direction. Small children aim at cars and pedestrians alike from the sidewalks. Anyone brave enough to ventur
Posted on: The Wobble | 2008-04-11 02:52:50
Leaving calcutta was funny - after going through the quietest airport I have ever been in we found ourselves stood outside with a bus waiting for us. When everyone got on the bus took off and stopped a distance that was barely longer than the bus itself w
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-04-09 18:47:54
I arrived on Samui, an island in the south of Thailand, from Bangkok on tuesday. Doug, my son and his Thai wife Luk found me a lovely quiet hotel with a pool right in the middle of Lamai but back off the street. Of course there was a method to their mad
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-04-09 18:40:44
The price of rice has sky-rocketed in Thailand to such a degree that gangs have taken to raiding farmers' rice fields. Some farmers have taken to sleeping in the fields to guard against thefts. One economic advisor on CNN Asia has called it a "rice tsun
Posted on: The Wobble | 2008-04-07 02:15:04
Have made it to thailand and the ridiculously beautiful ko phan nang(think bounty advert!!) - the internet costs here are extortionate.....
Will report in detail soon :)
Later,
Phil
