This is the bus that took us from BKK to PKK. Five hours turned into seven hours. Lucky the seats were so comfy and the music was so good. Oh no, the seats were shit, but not as shit as the thai death metal playing.
The Journey to Prachuap Khiri Khan March 31st 2008 Woke up
Packed
Checked out
Paid
Found 100 baht on the floor
Lost the key for the guest houses padlock
Got a taxi driver who didn't speak any English - we could still only say thank you in Thai
Managed to communicate (we think) the bus station for buses going south
Said thank you in Thai
Got in Cab and started driving
Over the bridge
Onto a big major road
Drove
Drove
Drove
Started to ... read more
Asia » Thailand » Western Thailand » Prachuap Khiri Khan A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more
We spent a year and a half travelling in 2006/2007 and were back in the UK for 6 months, but it is shit so we are going back to South East Asia for another 6 months before returning on a more permanent basis. The plan is to travel round SEAsia (Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia and Idonesia are on the "to do" list at the moment.) Plan to do see some ancient temples (Ankor Wat is top of the list), do lots of trekking and as much diving as we can as well as some sitting around and drinking tiger beer and singha. Will be meeting up with as many friends from our previous trip as we can (Hanna,... full info