Blogs from Southern Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 33

Ok, so yesterday I was planning on going to Songkhla Zoo. However, I woke up at about 4am with my legs feeling incredibly itchy. I figured it was just some more mosquito bites. However, I woke up later, looked down and saw that I had some blisters developing on my legs. They were really itchy, and looked gross (as you can see). The people in the guest house had never seen anything like this, and I felt pretty rotten (not ill, just pissed off with more bug problems). Ning was going to the hospital to visit the ladyboy who broke his leg. I was advised to head over with them, and have someone look at my legs. So, off we went, taking the ferry to get there. The hospital was quite nice, with lots of trees ... read more

Today was a pretty exciting one, even if that wasn't the way I planned it at all. I'm staying at a really friendly guesthouse called the ABC (it used to be the Arbitus) in a town in the south of Thailand called Songkhla. Songkhla is a pretty interesting place for me. Because it's quite limited beachwise it's not very touristy (it hs two but they don't comprare to the big resort beaches). In addition, there has been problems with security here in the south, with seperatists waging a campaign against the government. There is occasionly bombings; teachers and monks have been killed. further south. It's all very sad and too-familiar somehow. For me however, Songkhla reminds me a lot of Aberdeen, with the choppers flying overhead taking workers to the rigs in the Gulf of Thailland. ... read more

Well we ended up having to wait around in the border town of Hat Yai which was fairly uninteresting but had to be done before we could head onto Malaysia lucky for us we left though as it turns out a bomb went of the following day killing four people including a canadian who taught english to locals. After being in Bali when the bombs went of and last o/s visit there was the bird flu epidemic we certaintly like to fly close to the sun as you will find out later this trip we also had another close encounter with a landslide in the mountains of Nepal. ... read more

During our last couple days in Penang Malaysia our plans for the next leg of our journey changed considerably. We decided that we really wanted to see more of Thailand then just a boarder town. The easiest thing seemed to be to fly back to Malaysia from a more major location in Thailand in order to continue our tour of Malaysia. So, without much more consideration we booked a flight from Bangkok Thailand leaving us a week to somehow find our way up the east coast. I wasn't sure if I should tell my mother of our plans so I left everyone in suspense. So...I cut the French section out of my travel insurance booklet, sliced my bar of soap in half, dumped my shampoo into a pill bottle, forgot my favourite skirt hanging on ... read more

My aologies for the lack of recent blog action, i was writing these things and forgetting to publish them, so heres the last few at once. Me and Pete are in hat yai, waiting for a bus to krabi 2nite, we just spent the last 10hrs on a bus up from KL, where we stayed in hostel with a rooftop beer garden where we watched the matches high above KL. spent a bit more money than i was suppposed to in the market in Chinatown, peter even bought himself a man bag. hahah. Any way, we will be meetin the others either later 2nite in Krabi, or 2mor. Theyr doing fine, and have found themselves a nice guesthouse on Ao nang beach. The busses in this part of the world are nothin short of luxury. ... read more