Blogs from Thailand, Asia - page 2635

Hi everyone! Well, since my last entry we have arrived safely in Bangkok, Thailand. We arrived late last night, and spent a few hours wandering around the city streets before crashing for the night in the Wild Orchid Guesthouse. Our accomodations are clean and humble, but located perfectly, as the guesthouse is only a few minutes walk from Ko San Road, the backpackers haven. Today Mark and I visited the the Wat Pho Temple to see the Reclining Buddha, an amazing golden buddha statue over 40 feet high, and probably three times that in length. It was breathtaking. The rest of the day has consisted of checking out Ko San Road, and relaxing in the guesthouse open-air lounge during an impressive rain storm. The heat and humidity here make it hard to survive for a full ... read more

Ko Pha Ngan We arrived on the crazy island of Ko Pha Ngan 4 days before the full moon party as difficult to get accommodation… with over 20,000 people expected to turn up for the party and accommodation for only 3,000 its best to get there early! We didn’t want to be one of late comers who don’t sleep, sleep on the beach or stay on the neighbouring islands! We mainly chilled around the swimming pool or beaches in the day watching the steady flow of westerners filling up and taking over the island. In fact if it wasn’t for the usual fantastic beaches you wouldn’t think you were in Thailand because of all the western faces, made up mainly of Brits, Irish, Swedes, German and a whole bunch of Ozzies! It was all good and ... read more

Railay is a little peninsula on the Andaman Coast that is really popular with rock climbers. Once we arrived, it wasn’t hard to see why. The rock formations on the island are just CRAZY. Thousands of jagged stalactites hanging from the caves, right down onto the beach. Unlike anything we had see before. The peninsula is small enough that you can walk from one end to the other. Divided into the East and West side, the West side (Hat Rai Leh West) has nicer accommodation and a better beach - although there were so many jelly fish washed up on the beach and the tides so low, that most people seemed to swim in the resort pools. They were much more refreshing. The East side runs to mangroves and is horribly filthy in most parts. Rubbish ... read more

So after hours of debate and a look at our financial posistion we decided to return to Koh Tao, and this turned out to be a fantastic decision, which i take full credit for!! We started to look into ferries to Koh Tao and found out that we could actually travel to Tao on a speed boat for the same price.....1 1/2 hours on a speed boat! We were expecting a St Tropez style experience, but a Disneyland ride without the safety features was what we were presented with! On the plus side the Nic gained a facelift resulting from the high speed wind, and we both got used to the feelling of whiplash...eventually! All worth it to be back in Koh Tao. When we arrived we got a fantastic room at a fantasitc price of ... read more

I just don't know where to start, so I will let you all know that I have been infamous for throwing out random thoughts on our trip, I just blirt them out as if I am having a full converstions in my head. Don looks at me and says, "ok", I respond with "Jenny's random thought # 164". So, if I write anything like the way that I have been thinking over the last couple of weeks, I am appoligizing now for the lack of fluididty that this blog may contain due to the fact that we haven't written in quite some time... with that said, here goes. We made it thought Nepal without a hitch. Our trek was fantastic!!! We were scheduled to finish our trek on May 11 and fly to Thailand on May ... read more