Blogs from Southern Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 8

It’s not all white sandy beaches and pina coladas anymore, we have now discovered the tough parts of traveling in a 3rd world country. The blog has been difficult to upload at times, with internet speeds as fast as a turtle and mosquitos buzzing around my head while I watch the upload…1%, 2%, 3%...well you get the picture. After sea kayaking yesterday, we decided to find a nicer restaurant on the island to celebrate Scott’s 32nd trip around the sun. We tried to get suggestions from the expats that we made friends with on the dive trip, but they were not accustomed to more expensive $12 meals. They told us Ciao Bella looked like a nice place right on the beach, so we took off to find this “nice place.” Scott ordered BBQ and I ordered ... read more

Ahhhhh la Thaïlande .....j'en aurais long a dire sur ce pays au milles paysages.... mais commençons par découvrir les plages et les îles ?... read more

Today was an easy day of 59km which was awesome, we started with an hour bus ride out of the middle of Bangkok and got onto our bikes – as we rode out it was nice and flat and easy roads, we went through small villages and also fishing villages where we rode over a very small rickety bride in single file which was a little challenging. I rode with the AMAZING Mai Thew on the first leg – she just completed the Northern ride of 800km and is also completing the southern ride of 800km which is AMAZING. Let me give you some back ground on Mai Thiew - she is the founder and Mother of all the kids at Home Hug orphanage and at this particular orphanage all the kids are either HIV, neglected ... read more

After a few happy days of pancakes, curries and jungle walks to the beach, we left the island of Penang in Malaysia via a short ferry to the mainland town of Butterworth. We'd decided to head straight for Thailand, so boarded the one train a day that heads north towards the border from the very new and spacious train station. Unfortunately the train itself was anything but new and spacious, with only two carriages and a huge number of passengers, we spent the next three or four hours squashed up to a window with a family of four squeezed into the booth with us and various children's drinks, mainly chocolate milk, being spilt periodically down Liz's legs. On arriving at the Thai border, we had the option of remaining on the train for a further three ... read more

Hi everybody! This is for now my last night in Khanom. Tomorrow I will take a night bus to Bangkok where I will meet my road-mates Alex and Mo on saturday. We will take a night train to Chiang Mai on sunday and then finally the cycling part of this trip will start. I will have more to blog then. Nothing much happened in Khanom, I am sitting with friends in the evening, eating and I went to a massage twice now. So I am fine... I hope that you are all ok. Photos below...... read more