Blogs from Southern Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 30

My eagerness for this part of my journey has most definitely been strong. So here I am, finally, on the beaches of Southern Thailand. My first stop was Ko Samui and I arrived in the open aired Gilligan's Island designed airport. I knew I wouldn't be staying too long on here, as although what may seem cheap at 25$ CAN per night, my accommodations were a bit above my price range. My bungalow on Big Buddha Beach was called Shambala. It was nice and the place was very chilled out. They had a cool bohemian vibe and would play chillout music throughout the nicely manicured beach front grounds where little chillout areas were spotted all over the place. I didn't meet many people here as it was mostly older families, but it was still cool to ... read more

Some pics of Thailand.... Koh Jum & Koh Tao...Total Relax!... read more

Welcome to the second installment of our world tour! After a horiffic 18 hour journey including 2 buses, a van and a boat we finally arrive in Koh Samui, the largest of the South Easten Thai Islands. The water is, as expected, crystal clear and the sand is pure white. The landscape is very beautiful- tropical but also really quite mountainous. Due to our very long journey we can only spend one night on Samui as opposed to the planned 2. We stay in a very small resort on the coast called Maenam in a very nice place called Tropical Lounge Bungalow, run by some Germans. The bungalow was 6 pounds each a night and very comfortable, there was also a pool there too- shame we could only stay a night! we went out for a ... read more

Holy Toledo, where do I even start? To sum it up, we are having fun! I know our blog posts have been few and far between, but really, can you blame us? Put yourself in our flip flops. There's no wireless on the beach! Ok Ok, so lets cut to the guts shall we, It all happens like this, starting where we left off, on Jan. 11. We were on day two of our scooter rental, and loving it, exploring the beautiful island of Koh Pha-ngan (pan-yang), we headed off down the concrete road toward Ao Thong Nai to check out the northern side of the island. We were unaware that many main roads in Thailand like to change to dirt, sand, and a mixture of the two from time to time. We found ourselves hungry ... read more

I’m not going to go into details about my time in Thailand over Christmas and New Year except to say where I went, and I have posted some photos which will give you an idea of what I was up to. Suffice it to say that I had such a good time that I decided to stay for longer and extend my trip in general. I was getting a bit stressed about not having enough time to visit the places I had wanted to and tired of moving from one place to another every two nights on average. So I stayed on Koh Phangan for a while with a quick visa run too Malaysia just before Christmas which I spent with friends and friends of friends back on Koh Phangan. New Years was spent on Ton ... read more