Blogs from Thailand, Asia - page 2617

So it was time to farewell Vietnam, finally, and head to Thailand for a short 10 days. After an hour and a half delay in Vietnam we finally arrived in Bangkok. I think Vietnam just didnt want us to leave!!! We didn't plan to stay long in Bangkok so the next day we hopped on what seemed like a luxury bus compared to Vietnam and headed south. Our destination was Hua Hin, about 2 hours south of Bangkok. We were to stay with Daves family friend Doug and his Wife Khun Chonchica (a.k.a Poo). it was a little adventure to find his house as the bus arrived early and doug was not there to meet us. So we went of on a little walk in the rain and managed to trudge our way to their lovely ... read more

Back at the hotel we got our bags off the concierge, and seeing as how we'd already had to check out we went to the fitness centre to shower and repack our bags before our flight. After that we had dinner and sampled local beer, that was me, delicious, they sold it everywhere. Mum tried the local whiskey, which she deemed quite palatable. Onto another bus and off to the airport. After getting on our delayed airplane, sorry jumbo jet, we were cheerfully informed by the luckily secluded captain that we were unable to have air conditioning for our twelve hour long flight, as it wasn't working. Luckily mum got to sit next to a charming chappy from Scotland who was wearing a tweed coat, and didn't believe in deoderant. At least she was entertained the ... read more

hello there, just to let you know there are more photos on the previous entry, as we've just uploaded more, so enjoy! Ok, so after leaving the calm, quiet and subdued island of koh tao, we ventured forth to a new island, ko phangnan. Now we didnt really know much about it, and we had no idea where to go when we got there, it was all very chaotic and lots of taxi people hassling us, eventually we left the crowd of people found a little bar, had a sprite and decided to head towards haad rin. we expected it to be very loud and we thought we werent going to like it much but we decideed that it was one of those places that when your down that way you should really go see it ... read more

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Day 1. Well, it's day one of our long awaited trip to the U.K, and because we've never been overseas before we decided to prolong our stopover in Thailand for a couple of days. What an experience!! We arrived in Bangkok at about midnight, and were met by a charming Thai man who spoke only enough english to direct us to a van which would take us to the hotel. On arrival at the hotel, oh my god, luxury is not the word!! The porter took our luggage and we were directed up to reception where we recieved a complimentary glass of an extremely nasty liquid which looked much prettier than it tasted. After that it was straight up to our room, and off to sleep. Day 2. After finishing a huge buffet breakfast where we ... read more