http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Western-Thailand/Hua-Hin/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Thailand , Western Thailand , Hua Hin en-us Sun, 06 Dec 09 12:33:54 +0000 Sun, 06 Dec 09 12:33:54 +0000 It's October holidays for most International Schools in Bangkok and Leslie has a week off too. So we continue our little round of Discovery Thailand. Not really my first visit to Hua Hin as the last time I came here was 5 years ago. We did not plan one thing from 23rd to 25th October Hua Hin is going to host the 15th Asean Summit you know the same one that had to be canceled in April in Pa http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Western-Thailand/Hua-Hin/blog-447265.html Dagen i dag starta med ei 3 timers lang busstur. Me sko te Hua Hin. Det va ein varme busstur men naar me kom fram va det vel verdt det Hotellet me bor paa her Sofitel centara grand resort and villas e et skikkelig luksushotell. Naa har me virkelig folelsen av aa ver paa bryllupsreise Dagen har vel egentlig kun gaatt med te aa spisa bada og slappa av. Der e 3 basseng her og egen strandlinja http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Western-Thailand/Hua-Hin/blog-429992.html We left Koh Tao early afternoon on a catamaran and arrived in Champon and after a three hour journey and a five hour bus journey we arrived in Hua Hin hot and tired. Luckily we managed to find a guesthouse that was still open and got ourselves a room with yet another hot shower air con and satellite TV for 9 result We were up early and decided to have a sausage and egg mcmuffin Thatrsquos http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Western-Thailand/Hua-Hin/blog-393676.html Hua Hin Hua Hin Hua Hin... Monella tapaa ERITTAIN overi mesta... enka nyt puhu mitenkaan positiivisesta overiydesta. Siinna missa muissa Suomalaisten suosimissa pakettimatkakohteissa paikallinen osaa sanoa Terve Terve osataan Hua Hinissa kertoa myytavan tuotteen olevan Anttila Hintaa ravintoloiden ruokalistat ovat suomeksi ja raatalin nayteikkunassa iskulause kuuluu Et ole kaynyt Thaima http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Western-Thailand/Hua-Hin/blog-388660.html Monday June 4 2007 began with a 7 AM arrival from Chiang Mai at the Sam Sen railroad station in Bangkok about 15 minutes from the guest home that my sister Carol manages. We had a quick breakfast and showers changed clothes dropped off dirty clothes and packed up clean clothes and by 9 AM we were off again with the guest home driver and van with our first stop being the Rose Gardens. B http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Western-Thailand/Hua-Hin/blog-385394.html Hello again Well we've been here in Hua Hin for 5 days now and we really like it. The weather is still scortching we dont expect it to rain the whole time we are here this is apparently the dry season.Anyway since our last update we have been to a Thai Boxing night which was really good. it was more expensive to go if you are white but we got ringside seats. you could literally get sprayed w http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Western-Thailand/Hua-Hin/blog-377448.html Hello hellowell thats us into our second week now its totally flying in Since i last updated we've moved on from Bangkok and are now further south in a sleepy place called Hua Hin. there is a massive contrast between the two Our last night in Bangkok we decided to go out to a nightclub in Bangkoks RCA. it was crazy ther music was pretty good and the place was mobbed but there were half nake http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Western-Thailand/Hua-Hin/blog-376687.html I havenrsquot been doing one of these blog type things for a while for two reasons. 1 everything has been going well so Irsquove not had amusing stories to tell and 2 enjoying myself so much I didnrsquot want to sit on the internet moaning. Itrsquos so sad but I donrsquot want your sympathy that would just make it worse.Well after my last entry when I was in Ko Samui and it was pissi http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Western-Thailand/Hua-Hin/blog-364295.html Polly Well after our yucky journey from Koh Tao aboard the Lomprayah ferry to Chumphon we were whisked off in a taxi and dropped at the Merokot Hotel within five minutes of our arrival. For 400 Baht a night the hotel was fantastic. It was clean had a lift spacious room TV fridge airconditioning and a bath. I haven't sat in a bath tub since staying with Nic Jim in Australia so was a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Western-Thailand/Hua-Hin/blog-363648.html There are currently 13400 LAK Lao Kip to the pound.There are currently 1.52 USD to the pound.There are currently 6400 KHR Cambodian Riel to the pound.There are currently 52 THB Thai Baht to the pound.Having left Dali in Yunnan province I journeyed up to Lijiang and then to the fabled Shangrila. Shangrila is a fictional place described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by British author Jam http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Western-Thailand/Hua-Hin/blog-361446.html Hua Hin Paradise City Clean and TidyHua Hin is 2.5 hours by minivan south of Bangkok. Just catch the BTS Sky train to Victory Monument station and walk down the stairway towards the Century Cinemas and you will find the minivan depot where you can purchase a ticket for 200 baht. The King of Thailand has a Palace in Hua Hin which probably has something to do with why it is one of the cleanest http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Western-Thailand/Hua-Hin/blog-361372.html i am now in hua hin having safely arrived from bangkok last night. its been quite an long and very varied adventure since my last blog from phuket....i spent another 12 days in phuket. i had a great time there so much so in fact that i am going back there next week to spend my 40th birthday christmas and new year.... should be fun spent the evenings seeing a lot of lip synching ladyboy cabar http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Western-Thailand/Hua-Hin/blog-347467.html Hello all hope everyone's ok back home..Last time we did this we'd just come off our trek in the jungle and since then we have done a LOT more stuff.. We headed back to Bangkok from Chaing Mai on the overnight train this time it took 12 hours which was much mor bearable than the previous 17. Although we did have to slum it in second class next to two crazy German women who drank a bottle of gin http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Western-Thailand/Hua-Hin/blog-346741.html Were getting closer to the beautiful postcard beaches of the south This morning after doing some shopping and grubbing on Khao San Road we caught a quick 3.5 hour bus to Hua Hin Hua Hin is a cool little fishing village south of Bangkok. Were staying in a nice place tonight by the fishermans pier and tommorrow were going to make the train ride south to Surat Thani then take a boat to the small http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Western-Thailand/Hua-Hin/blog-344693.html hello from the north of the southso we left Laos and crossed the boarder yesterday we then boarded the night train at Nong Khai and arrived in Bangkok 1.5 hrs late at 740 oh how reliablewe wanted to go to Chumphon on the day train but it is a celebration day in Thailand today for Rama V so they were all fully booked We didnt want to stay in Bangkok so we bought tickets to Hua Hin another re http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Western-Thailand/Hua-Hin/blog-337623.html Feeling ragged from our allnight flight from Delhi we arrived back in Bangkok to an empty airport probably result of the country's justlifted state of emergency. We had some difficulty locating a taxi but were soon sailing down the refreshingly sophisticated freeway to the beach city of Hua Hin feeling like we were back in paradise. The complete lack of any guests at our hotel further confir http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Western-Thailand/Hua-Hin/blog-325254.html Took us about 2 12 hours to get to Hua Hin from Bangkok via taxi which cost 2000b just under 30 quid. At first we felt much better to be out of Bangkok and near a beach. Even though the beaches were relatively nice we decided it wasn't what we were expecting. Basically it was the Bendiorm of Thailand. Open sewers meant there was a constant stink of shit in the air and too many people hassling http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Western-Thailand/Hua-Hin/blog-323314.html On Monday 21st June we all got up early in order to leave Kanchanaburi and get to Hua Hin reasonably early as we expected the journey to take 45hrs. As soon as we arrived at the bus station we jumped on the number 13 bus to Ratchaburi which was just leaving. We should have known from the bus number that the journey wouldnrsquot go as planned Two hours later we arrived in Ratchaburi only to fin http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Western-Thailand/Hua-Hin/blog-295204.html On Thursday 19th June we went to the Siam centre a large airconditioned shopping centre well known for its designer shops. We walked about 5km to the Hua Lampang station via Chinatown which was a bustling place full of jewellers street vendors selling anything and everything motorcyclists using the pavement much like the rest of Bangkok and traffic which did not stop when pedestrians were http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Western-Thailand/Hua-Hin/blog-292740.html On Monday we went to Monkey Island. Actually it is Monkey Mountain but we can't seem to remember it correctly. It was just north of the city of Hua Hin. It was such an adventure. Because it was only 30 minutes away and one destination we decided to explore without a tour guide or any idea of what we would see. We did have a van driver for transport. So on Monkey Moutain we did see monke http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Western-Thailand/Hua-Hin/blog-291420.html