Blogs from Chumphon, South-West Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 5

OK Here are the first batch of photo's!!! I think we are going to the Island of Koh Toa tomorrow. Yesterday we went to the ocean and did some swimming . The water was so warm it was almost hot!! The highlight of the trip!! We were at Hat Thong Wua Leans, which was really creepy actually. Kind of an empty, depressing town, ready for tourists, of which we were the only ones! Shannon and I were walking along the beach and then some dog started following us and taunting us. Kind freaked us out since we both declined the rabies shot!! the comedy of errors continued as we needed to catch a bus home and nobody in the ghost town spoke english, but we managed to figure out that a bus could take us back ... read more

got back to chumphon on sunday afternoon! bangkok was awesome - had such a good time!! spent far too much money though but it was lots of fun!! we did a lot of shopping (i went to the MBK centre 3 days in a row - woops!!!) but we did some sightseeing too!! we went to the grand palace and walked round that, saw the emerald buddha etc etc (full of bloody japanese snap happy tourists though which got a bit annoying after a while!!), then we took the boat down the river and went to Wat Triamit temple which has a gold buddha 3m tall! that night we also went to Lebua State Tower building which has a bar called the Sky Bar on the 64th floor...the bar hangs out off the edge of the ... read more

hello!! 2nd blog...lots to update you on since last time!! we left bangkok on sunday morning (up at 6 oclock - rank!!) and got the train down to chumphon which took 6 hours...it had reclining seats and airconditioning...in other words the seats kinda moved a bit and there were a couple of fans on the ceiling!! but it was an experience i guess!! we then got to our guesthouse which is called mali blues where all the i-to-i volunteers stay - elspeth, kelly and julie were already here so we all arrived (me, chelsea, kia, jo and david) and were allocated rooms...very basic, but they do the job!! a fan on the ceiling, 2 mattresses on the floor a shower head that just hangs over the floor and cold water!!! i got my mozzy net up ... read more

A deserted breakfast room (other than two Germans, who departed soon after we arrived). Nerve jerking strong coffee with some good eggs and toast. Spent a nervous half our in reception waiting for our transfer to the ferry jetty. It arrived just as I was asking the receptionist to phone the ferry company. We jumped aboard a pick up and in scorching weather drove what seemed far more than the anticipated 10km to the ferry port. With many other backpackers we strolled with heavy backpacks out on the beautiful but fragile wooden pier to the modern catamaran for our ferry crossing to Ko Tao. It was quite luxurious on board. Surprisingly for such a modest mannered country, a violent movie was being shown with some relatively explicit sex scenes. One and a half hours later we ... read more

Hello everyone, Well we made it safely through China and arrived in Bangkok on Saturday night. A very nice start to the proceedings was our chauffeur driven pick up from the airport to the Millenium Hilton Bangkok. We arrived there at around 7pm and the giggling began then. I can safely stay that we have never stayed in a hotel anywhere near this standard before. It was superb. The people for a start were amazing, I think we saw more smiles within 10 minutes that we saw the whole time we were in HK. Our room on the 23rd floor was beautiful with a wall width window giving us a 180° view of the river. To put it into perspective, as Sam said, it made Cowley Manor look like Greasy Joe's! Once we had calmed down ... read more