Blogs from Thailand, Asia - page 2626

Day 3 - Bangkok - So I have now been in Bangkok for 48 hours and am finally starting to get the hang of the city. The parts that I have seen have proven to me that Bangkok is truly a crazy city. When I first arrived what stood out must was the smell. If I was going to try and describe it, the entire streets smell like a combination of sewage, fried fish, and a weird smelly cooked beef. It's such an odd smell, they say you get use to it, but I am really not sure if that's possible. So yesterday i did a little exploring, when I first arrived to Bangkok I was dropped off on Kohn San road, at 2 in the morning, and it really wasn't impressive all that was their ... read more

Here I am in Thailand. The journey was something else. Luckily I slept for the majority of the plane ride. However, it's very strange waking up on the complete other side of the World. It's as if I got caught in a tornado, which spit me out in Thailand. Ha. I connected in Japan. That airport is a sight to see. That whole country is weird. It's as if the airport is a microcosm of the surrounding land. The airport is just how you see Japan in television. Everything is very cartoonish, bright white, strange. It was immaculately clean. Their toilets are sooo weird. I took pictures of it which I'll show you. The toilet seat has this electronic panel on the right with like 100 buttons. It's funny. Posted on the wall were instructions; the ... read more

Well what can we say..... Another beach - with lots of Tsunami evacuation signs!!!!! Accomodation was different again!! We had to be careful where we walked as the whole floor bent and we were a good storey above the ground!! Slightly worrying at times - especially when the cats living below our bungalow wouldn't even walk on some areas!!!!! But what the room lacked the staff made up for. They were all really nice and helpful and could even sing a Bob Marley song or two!!!!!!!! Didn't get up to much as tired from the jungle trip and treppidation after finding out our bus trip to Singapore would be 24 hours (not 12 as we were told when we booked it!!) So, I (J) did what I normally do and headed off into the town for ... read more

Hiya all. Nice to hear from you as we love to get comments!!! We had our last day in Aythaya yesterday and we briefly had a look at three more temples as well as a pretty park (see photos). Today we went to Lop Buri and got a nice ensuite room in a hotel for 2 pounds in total!! Bargain! We have already looked at all the sites and so we are off again tommrow to the next place. We are both still in shock from the savage monkey attack at one of the temples. We were walking to it just to get a good photo from behind the wall as didnt want to pay to go in, and then we spotted one monkey and we thought how sweet. We were very wrong! As we walked ... read more

Dear all, Just wanted to add some of the pictures that I promised in the last entry. Not much to update in the last couple of days -- just a doozy of a sunburn, a little bit of relaxation time, and a lot of planning for the next stint of the journey, which is when the real work begins. I probably won't be in touch much for the next little while... I don't know how much access I'll have to computers in Northern Thailand. But, I will be sure to update before/as I cross through Cambodia into Vietnam in about two and a half weeks time. You are all in my thoughts. Lots of love, ~Lisa~... read more