http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Elisa/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Elisa en-us Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:01:19 +0000 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:01:19 +0000 February 9th James and I headed to Koh Tao a small island on the eastern coast of Thailand. We had decided to take the night bus from Hua Hin to Chumporn and then the Lomprayah speedboat to the island. The bust departed at 1145 pm and we were due to arrive in Koh Tao at 830am. The bus was nice enough though sitting near the bathrooms was a mistake. We were already tired so thought it wou http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ko-Tao/blog-43282.html Wersquove been here for two weeks now but it feels like much longer. Irsquove been working a lot but Irsquove had a few days off to explore around. Last week we went to Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park. We hiked over steep cliffs to the town of Bang Pu a very small beach with a resort and access to the Tham Phraya Nakhon Caves. We quickly stumbled onto to several Langurs swinging from t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Western-Thailand/Hua-Hin/blog-40096.html James and I arrived Tuesday after 31 hours of travelling. It's now Friday night here and we just got back from our first real outing into the city of Hua Hin. My house is about 30 minutes outside of town and feels even farther than that. Our village consists of about 10 western style houses in the middle of open land surrounded by cows stray dogs and oh yeah snakes Big giant Burmese pytho http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Western-Thailand/Hua-Hin/blog-37908.html