Blogs from South-West Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 2

Our month in Vietnam is over! It was a very full on month; we took a lot of buses, saw a lot of places and made a lovely Danish friend Leah, whom we travelled with for about 3 weeks (a very long time in the travelling world!). We ended up staying in Hoi An for about 3 days. We had a hotel with a pool for the first time! We rented bicycles, got lost in the old town and rode out to the beach. We also ate a lot of good food there, the best we had in all of Vietnam! We also had clothes tailor made, an interesting experience although they struggled to get the dress I designed quite right. It took three trips back to the tailors and ultimately a motorbike ride out to ... read more

This is a heavy one, I had a lot of alone time to think this weekend... Let me start with updates. In the past two weeks I have been busy with summer school and cleaning out every old file and picture on my computer (so I can sell it). I have managed to pick up some tutoring hours to make a little extra cash on the side. In case you missed the Facebook pictures, I also had a little plastic surgery done. Don't get too excited, I just needed two tiny abscesses removed from my scar. My scar looks beautiful now; well, as pretty as a face scar can ever look, at least! Here's where I get introspective. What was supposed to be a blog describing my travels, has now become almost like a diary. This ... read more

We travelled over from Koh Samui to Phuket, leaving at 6.30am and they told us we would be there by 3pm, but this being Thailand, of course we didn’t arrive until 12 hours later, at around 7pm. We spent three nights in total in Phuket and it was kind of like a mini holiday, we spent loads of money, stayed in luxury accommodation (3* hotel with air con and a pool - this is considered as luxury these days), went the cinema, had nice meals out and took a break from the travelling lifestyle. As for Phuket, it seems to be one of the main places everyone goes on holiday in Thailand but for me, it wasn’t the best and I would not return. We stayed in the resort of Karon, about 10 minutes outside of ... read more

Lets get festive....!!! 21/12 We got up and had our free breakfast (in Koh Pagnan!) and checked out. We booked our taxi plus ferry ticket to Koh Samui, and transfer in samui from our hotel. It cost us 550 baht for all three which was a good deal, as the ferry ticket alone would have been 450 baht. Our taxi driver to the ferry port was none other than Charlie the barman! We jumped in the back of his pick up with our cases and headed to the ferry port. We got our sticker for the ferry, with our hotel name written on and boarded the ferry. It only took half an hour to get to Samui, but was a bit of a rocky ride at the front of the Lomproyah catamaran. We got on our ... read more

We finally managed to get a boat off Koh Phangan but didn’t get to Koh Tao until about 7.30pm and due to everyone heading to Koh Tao for a chill out after full moon the island was very busy and the hotel we had planned to check into was fully booked. After about an hour of walking around with our backpacks we finally checked into a way more expensive hotel. We had a quiet first night and saw little of Koh Tao, just went out for dinner and a few drinks. The next morning we were up bright and early in search of another hotel but everywhere was still fully booked so we just booked at our hotel for another 2 nights. We then headed to the beach, and were very impressed. It was absolutely beautiful ... read more

Aboard a Katamaran we skim across the shimmering blue gulf towards the diving hotspot of Koh Tao. This is the start of our travel time and our first stops include the Islands of Koh Tao, Koh Pha Nang and Koh Samui for sun, sea and partying. Arriving we hustle our way through the cat-calling taxi drivers for the Song Taew that would take us to Bans diving Resort. Its diving school is the one of the biggest diving schools in Thailand and awards more PADI certificates than any other, (but naturally the cheap price and free rooms were the attraction). Our diving instructor was a small, tubby and larger than life man named Anthony who had gone from professional ballerina to diver. This walking Cliché ranted on huge tangents about ‘saving the world’ and the UK’s ... read more