Blogs from Southern Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 31

12/15 Railay Beach Another awesome 12 hour bus ride to the southern Thai city of Krabi...unlike Cambodia, this time there were highways and no "I'm a Barbie Girl" playing on repeat so it was a success. The tour company we booked this bus with had a promotional deal for everyone to go to the Phi Phi Islands (where the movie "The Beach" was filmed) but being the expert Thai travelers that Tara and I are we decided we could bargain a better price upon our arrival at the port of Krabi. We dashed off the bus leaving everyone else behind and a hailed a cab to the dock like we were on the Amazing Race. Got it for half the price the tour company was selling it for so we think we're doing good at this ... 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

i am now back in Thailand having just spent the past 3 weeks in Malaysia and Singapore. after my last blog from Hat Yai, in far southern thailand, i took the direct overnight sleeper train from there to Kuala Lumpar, as my thai visa had expired. the ticket was only 518baht (about 8GBP). Although it starts in Hat Yai, it is a Malaysian train, with initially just two passenger carriages attached to the back of a very long and extremely slow goods train. the goods carriages are replaced by a lot more passenger ones at the Thailand/Malaysian border. compared with the freshly laundered sheets, that you could probably eat your dinner off, on thai sleepers, the bedding on the malaysian train left a lot to be desired. it didnt look or smell as if it had ... read more

im now in the southern Thai city of Hat Yai, having arrived here saturday afternoon with my friend ekk. we got here by boat and bus from the island of koh muk, off the coast of Trang province, in south-western thailand. soon after my last blog i left bangkok for koh samet, a tiny but very popular island off the thai eastern seaboard. the reason for that was that a friend we had met on koh samui in june, had invited us to spend some time there. we arrived on the bus from bangkok (only about 3 hours), to the port of ban phe, where we met him. we then took the boat together to the island. we ended up staying on ao phai beach, which is pretty central for most things. the second day we ... read more

Day 18: Nakhon Si Thamarat to Hua Sai We slept in and took a leisurely walk over to P & P Bagery, a place we’d spotted the previous day. We were enchanted by the possibility of a real bakery and by the funny spelling mistake in the name. Unfortunately, this bagery had only store bought, pre-packaged, crust-less white bread, in terms of baked goods. (Perhaps a bagery is something altogether different than a bakery.) We were in shock, but nonetheless, stayed for some delightful coffee as well as rice and eggs with chili sauce. When the bill arrived, it was quite a bit higher than the sum of the listed prices. When we inquired, we were told the listed price was for one egg, but we had each had three eggs. We found this a bit ... read more