Blogs from Nakhon Si Thammarat, Southern Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 2

When travelling to countries where you don’t speak the local language, silly events often happen that can put a smile on your face. Take for example this experience. Bev decided this year to take some Thai language classes. She found out that in the Thai language, questions and responses as kept as short as possible. No need to speak in sentences when one word will suffice. Well that doesn’t sit well with Bev, as she has a tendency to talk; to elaborate upon things. For breakfast we usually have eggs, plain pancakes, muesli and yogurt, along with a fruit plate of bananas, pineapple and watermelon. One morning, Bev decided she wanted banana crepe pancakes, instead of the plain pancakes. In great detail she explained in English, to our Thai waiter, what she wanted for breakfast. Satisfied ... read more

It was a forty hour journey to get from our home in Regina, central Canada, to our first overseas destination in Bangkok, Thailand. The first fifteen hours involved a two hour flight to Vancouver airport on New Year’s Day, followed by a dozen hours waiting for our after midnight flight to Bangkok, via Taipei. All connections went well, but the additional twelve hours of waiting around the airport was a gruelling time extension to an already long flight plan. However, when we finally arrived Bangkok mid-afternoon two days later it was only a matter of minutes before we fell asleep and remained in that state for the next eighteen hours, ready to commence a new day in a new country relatively fresh and revived. Jet lag was not noticeable. It is always a delight to start ... read more

Happy new year everybody! I am sorry for not continuing my blog but apparently I am so busy with other things. We reached Koh Chang, I travelled to Shenzhen over Christmas and now I am back in Khanom. I am fine, I hope you are too...... read more

There is nothing much to tell about Khanom or show what I have not told or shown on my recent trip to Khanom. On the first day (monday) I assembled my bike and was really happy that it worked well. I visited my Khanom friends and they were all really happy to see me. I was invited for lunch and dinner and really happy to be here. It was a really happy day. :D Today I also bought a table and finally established my office. What was a nightmare though, is what happened to my bicycle. I had a flat tire the very first day (I had only 2 in 3 months last time). I repaired that and had another flat tire only 2 days later. I repaired that too and started to work on my ... read more

The tranquility of url=http://www.travelfish.org/location/thailand/southern_thailand/nakhon_si_thammarat/nakhon_si_thammaratNakhon Si Thammarat hits you the moment you step off the plane and onto the runway. The mighty peak of Khao Luang (namesake of the national park) looms in the distance overlooking all and sundry in a kind of serene benevolence from a height of over 1,800 meters. Birds large and small chatter in the bushes on the side of the runway, and they are the only sound one hears aside from fellow passengers talking on their phones. Speaking of those passengers, I counted just two other farang on the flight down. My plan was to hop in a taxi and go straight to the village of Ban Khiriwong in the foothills of Khao Luang National Park . In hindsight it would have been more fun to take a songthaew for 25 ... read more