Blogs from Hat Yai, Southern Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 3

We stayed 2 more nights on the Island taking a day to visit the main port Pangkor (the only place on the island with a cash machine) We didn't get up to much here - adding the last blog - the highlight was the odd pancake snack we had. It was like a pancake or crepe but made from dough rather than batter. Mine had egg fried in with it and a curry, Emmas was the sweet option and caked in strawberry syrup. Emma spent the time eyeing mine up until eventually I let her have some curry. It was delicious. A 12 Ringot pink and yellow taxi ride back to our camp and it was getting on and we were far too tired to do more than just lie on the beach - so we ... read more

correspondence 2: October 1 2009, Realization that this update is long in order I have dedicated this raining day to update the blog. In the last post we were only in Bangkok and Autyuata in the north and kata beach in the south just out of phuket, the party central zone of southern thailand it seems. We stayed in kata beach where we met a lot of people including Linus, the german psychology student, the 4 welsh boys, Rhodri, Paul, Matt and Gaz who we are now back near Surat thani with now. After Phuket we headed to the island Ko Phi Phi that was struck by the tsunami too and can the pictures, stories and horrors of the days can be seen throughout the town and the locals. Whether through reading of the stories in ... read more

greetings all... when i last wrote i had just bought a train ticket to head back to bangkok... leaving chiang mai the train was delayed due to a broken engine, it was very confusing, noticed most other travellers were getting kinda uptight by the not knowing and not understanding what was happening, many comments of 'noone speaks english'... we ended up leavig two hours late but arriveed in bangkok at same time with everyone safe and sound,... how much energy wasted with worry, how much uneccessary suffering these people caused themselves... when i arrived back in bangkok i was touted by tuk-tuk driver... i asked how much and says 170B, i exclaim in thai 'too expensive, i give you 60B (which was the cost of a metered taxi... this gets a good chuckle from another driver ... read more

HAPPY NEW YEAR, from hat yai! welcome to my first blog of 2009, and the probably the penultimate one before Ekk and i return to the UK at the end of next month.. since i last spoke, i helped ekk celebrate his 35th birthday in hua hin, helped by some duty free famous grouse whisky, a large chocolate cake from siam paragon and 5 puppies! i then left hua hin by train to thung song junction, from where it is a short bus journey to krabi town. i could have got off at surat thani, but couldnt face the touts and hassle there. At thung song though, 2 hours further south, i was the only farang, and not a tout in sight ready to rip me off! time wise it was probably about the same, and ... read more

Hey there! We arrived in Bangkok after a 10 hour bus journey, the journey was on a locals bus and pretty good, comfortable and safe. We stayed in Bangkok for a few days to chill out and decide where we wanted to go next, we found a place called Koh Lanta on the net which looked lovely and not touristy like a lot of Thailand islands are now so we booked a flight to Phuket to then take a boat. We stayed in Phuket town for 2 nights so we could check out the best way to get to Koh Lanta, the town was great and full of local Thai people and hardly any tourism, however the beach resorts were too touristy and busy, we did go to two beaches which were very pretty and good ... read more