Blogs from Thailand, Asia - page 2612

It's hard to write about such an amazing day in one's life but I'll give it a whirl and hopefully for those of you who weren't there you will get a feel for just how amazing it truly was. It started out with Stu and I waking up next to each other, the last time as single people, both very excited about the journey that lay ahead. After a relaxed breakfast and swim, we parted ways about lunchtime with me going up to Ma and Pa's room and Stu staying at ours to get ready. As part of the package we bought, my hair and make-up lady arrived about 2.30pm to start the beauty process and we were done about 4.30pm (yes it takes a while!). The nerves didn't really set in until I put my ... read more

I now know how people can plan to stay on the islands for two days and end up staying for years. It's weird, time feels like it truly stops while you are there, everyday is just as fun as the last. I really didn't want to leave but my Visa was starting to run short, so I figured I better leave or I might end up spending my whole trip on the Islands. Also I am gong to try and make sure I have some extra time at the end of my trip to head back down there. I hoped on a boat at 2:30 in the afternoon and got into a small town called Champong where i had to wait 2.5 hours for the bus to pick me up. So far on the trip ... read more

At 9am on Tuesday morning we are picked up by Rumg and Tuktuk(!), our trekking guides, and meet our fellow trekkies - we’re a cosmopolitan mix of Scottish, American, Portuguese, French, Danish and English. After a brief stop at the market to collect supplies (mozzie spray in particular) we head for the hills in the back of a pick up truck. First stop elephant trekking, and armed with a big bunch of bananas (we want to keep the elephant on side) we climb aboard nellie and head off road. Nellie seemed to appreciate the constant flow of bananas and rewarded us by not spraying us with water - some of our fellow trekkies were not so lucky! After a hearty meal of fruit and vegetable fried rice in one of the villages in the hills we ... read more

Ahojte, tak uz sme v Thajsku a je to tu neskutocny chaos, dost bordel, ale nie je to az take zle, potom to pismo, ktore vobec nevieme citat a anglictina je tu nanic, lebo nou skoro nikto nehovori. V Bangkoku sa este dalo, ale mimo neho, kde sme teraz (sme v Nakhtam Pakhtom, ci tak nejak zapadne od Bangkoku pri leziacom Budhovi, ktoreho sme dnes videli) skoro nikto. Tak len ukazujeme co chceme a oni nam to davaju. Je tu dost lacno, dnes sme isli vlakom asi 65 km za 10 bathov (co je asi 8 nasich korun :). Bola to sice tretia trieda a vlak ked sa pohynal, tak som si vzdy myslel, ze do nas niekto narazil, ale inak uplne v pohode. No a dnes som si chcel dat nejake maso na trhu a ... read more

We got the boat to Ko Tao it took two hours to get there. When we got off the boat we came across a guest house that had air con, fridge and TV - Yes TV! For just 500 bht a night. First we checked out some bungalows on the beach but they were too similar to those on bottle beach - small, dark and dingy. So needless to say we went for the one with the TV much to Amy's delight. We had 40 channels, mostly thai but enough english ones to keep Amy happy. This is probably why we overstayed on this tiny island, we did'nt get up to musch apart from relaxing and watching a bit of TV. We found a mini golf course which also had free pool table which became one ... read more