03/10/08 Friday Day 50 24 hours of Travel Part 1 Didn’t do much else in Phangan this morning. Just checked out and sat on the beach until we got out taxi to the ferry at 4pm. The ferry was uneventful except that it took 2 and a half hours. I would have swam it faster. The ferry was a car ferry so I suppose it couldn’t really go that fast. After getting off the boat we hopped on a bus to Suratthani town to get another local taxi/converted pickup truck with all the other backpackers heading for the train station. We [View Full Entry]

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30/09/08 Tuesday Day 47 Another good day Another early start. Got collected from our “resort” a little after 7am to get the 8am ferry to Ko Phangan. The ferry was cool, a right classy looking catamaran. The only thing was that it was funny of Japanese tourists going for a day trip to Ko Tao we reckon because none of them got off at our stop. These weren’t just any normal Japanese tourists. These were the beautiful people. We were now on a boat with the most vainest Japanese people, ever. The minute they sat down they were up again like [View Full Entry]

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28/09/08 Sunday Day 45 Back to the same shite I’m really sorry now that we didn’t stay in Ko Phi Phi longer. Got our taxi anyway from our hotel to the airport which was about 30 minutes away. Checked in, got on our plane and headed for Ko Samui. The airport here is tiny. We were collected from the plane in what can be described as vehicles you’d see ferrying people around zoos and the like, sort of a train like vehicle. Very cool. This island is pretty expensive. Our taxi from the airport was about 8 euros for about a [View Full Entry]

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26/09/08 Friday Day 43 The best day so far, pure heaven What a perfect day. Got collected at our hotel at 7.15am to head to the boat in Phuket town to our trip to Ko Phi Phi island. Uneventful trip really. Our hotel, the Phi Phi Island Cabana Hotel is right beside the pier. There’s still no need to book any place as there’s still loads of people on the pier flogging accommodation. The hotel is in an amazing location. It’s just pure paradise. There’s a beach at the front and to the back. It’s on a small stretch of land [View Full Entry]

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23/09/08 Tuesday Day 40 A day of stories Had breakfast fairly early because we were leaving for the airport around 8ish. Our nice tuk tuk driver from two days ago was outside ready and waiting. Dropped us to the airport. Nice little airport it is. From here on, today is full of stories. We noticed when we were checking in that there were 3 Spanish ladies also on our flight. I overheard them say that they were going to Phuket too. That was all grand until we got on the place. The 3 of them took 3 window seats one behind [View Full Entry]

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20/09/08 Saturday Day 37 Uneventful day of travelling again. Got picked up at our hotel and was carried to our bus for Siem Reap. 6 hour journey with 1 stop is a piece of cake to us at this stage. Our bus driver was a tad on the slow side. Even other buses which left after us passed us out before and after our only stop. We had a tuk tuk driver organised by the travel crowd to pick us up at the bus station and drop us to the hotel. That was all fine until after arriving at our hotel [View Full Entry]

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18/09/08 Thursday Day 35 Farewell Vietnam, Hello Cambodia I was informed from a number of people that my reports are a tad negative but unfortunately today isn’t a day for changing that! Ah no, I tell a slight lie. Got our full sized 45 seater AC bus at half 7 this morning and headed out of the city. There was about 10 people on the bus, 2 of us, a family of 3 from Australia and a family of 5 from somewhere over in these here parts of the world. For some reason our assigned seats were near the back of [View Full Entry]

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15/09/08 Monday Day 32 Awoken again this morning around 7am thanks to the construction boys doing some work on the building beside us. Pretty uneventful day of travelling thank god. We were in with grandma, mommy and little daughter in our train cabin. Luckily this time there was no such peeing or vomiting incidents. Train journey went quick enough. Half one to about quarter to nine. Saigon train station is pretty big and it’s got loads of shops but most are closed and we didn’t get a chance to walk around as we needed to get to our hotel. Got ambushed [View Full Entry]

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12/09/08 Friday Day 29 Train journey to Nha Trang Pretty uneventful day today. Manky day again so it’s not too bad for travelling. The sun isn’t out but the humidity is sky high. As Emer went to take out money to pay for the hotel (no credit card facilities) I was standing in the lobby just sweating and that was even under a fan. Awful warm it was. After breakfast and before we checked out we went to book ourselves a taxi to take us back to Da Nang and by the time we went back to the hotel to check [View Full Entry]

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10/09/08 Wednesday Day 27 Had the “buffet” breakfast again and checked out of the hotel and headed for the train station. Luckily no ambushing here. Got on the train and luckily we got the 4 berth soft sleeper cabin to ourselves for the 3 hour journey to Hoi An. Nothing exciting from the train journey. Yet another ambushing by taxi drivers when we got off the train. We got one guy but we told him to wait because we had to buy more tickets for 2 days later to Nha Trang. Of course when we got back out he legged it [View Full Entry]

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