Blogs from Southern Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 7

Everyone told me it is not safe to travel down that area in southern Thailand, yeah....I did a quick search on line and nothing but bomb explosion on the news in the past for Yala region, although not any recently incident, it still chopped down a worrying mark on my mind, so when I took the train to Yala after a short stay in Hat Yai, and I was riding with couple of military in the same compartment, suddenly I remembered those news I'd read..."the extremist mostly targeted the army and military". ou..oh...just when I was mumbling why they had to sit in my compartment but not the others, then I saw the approaching train from the opposite direction... there were military stationed in every compartment!!!! glad I didn't made a fool of myself by carry ... read more

Day 11 will be a long day on the road for me. I have to cover about 500 km to reach Smile Resort, Thung song. Highway all the way Meeting 2 bikes from Bangkok Road works Reach smile around 4pm Had in resort dinner Contemplating if I should put up a night at sadao or head to KL... read more

CoMassage & men We decided as the weather was rubbish and the sun burn was still rearing its ugly head that we would get an aloe Vera massage in Koh Tao! Aimee joined us and luckily we found a place that could accommodate the 3 of us. I was happy that Aimee drew the short straw and the lady boy selected her, although you should see Aimee she's 5ft nothing and tiny, I knew at this point that this would be a fun day! They remove our bikini tops and start on our backs! At first it was extremely relaxing, but we had no idea what was to follow..... Bec, unfortunately never had her bikini top on for the remainder of the massage and had a full frontal massage?Further into the hour session the massage took ... read more

After 3 days in Pai, it was back off to Soi dog I went. Gary had pals coming to bangkok he was going to meet in a few days time, and again i didnt want to spend that much time in the city, and after pondering other local shelters, remembering my bad experience at Samui dog, I decided to go back to where i started, as i knew i would be welcome and would enjoy myself. I flew from chiang mai to phuket on sunday and started on the monday. It was so nice to be back, and honestly felt like i had never left! Saying that, a lot of the dogs in my run had been adopted and left, which was amazing, and 2 new additions had arrived, one of which was in the picture ... read more

Well here I am, two months later, finally somewhat acclimated to Thailand. Pre-departure, I was kindly warned that you're basically thrown into the lions den immediately upon arrival. While several refer to the "lion's den" to be a slighted negative connotation, it's more so my own personal encryption of capacities. In this case, my capacities were how quickly could I adapt to a brand new foreign culture? Considering i'm 100% linguistically and phonetically challenged in the Thai department, how do I communicate? After 30 hours of travel, can I really sit through a week of orientation fresh off the plane? And then there's that point, the key point, the all mighty premise of why I came to Thailand in the first place..... to teach. Not only are you fresh off the flight, thrown into a week ... read more