Blogs from Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 721

Back in Bangkok again, sitting in a bar on Khao San Road with a gin and tonic... ahh. (free internet too! bonus!) I left gorgeous Ko Pha Ngan yesterday along with my gorgeous bungalow and gorgeous girl... (for more info, please enquire within ;) Today i Bang-ed around the dreaded Kok again on various errands - including getting my docs back! Which I DID!! Woohoo! I managed to change my flight again as well, so now I don't leave until the 22nd of August which means I'm GOING TO LAOS! It's well exciting, and I'm going with a couple of friends from Pha Ngan as well which will be good. I've heard Laos is Beeeautiful and extremely cheap (which is a releif, seeing as my hotel bill for the last week came to 7000 Baht!!! -about ... read more

Whew, first days. Pretty much uneventful getting here. Funny thing, when we were in Tokyo, Conrad went to get a water. Bought a water in a cute little jar, turns out it was 70 proof saki. Funny. He did not drink it, although he thought it was good. Hotel was good, ummmm. First day out we were sort of half way awake. We had arrived at the hotel after midnight, after 27 of air travel, and not quite with the program. As we were driving to the airport, oh and yes, I did the walk through all the shouting taxi and good deal people in the arrival area of the airport. I was so lucky on the flight to Bangkok from Tokyo, I was sitting with a girl from Nan province in Thailand. She was awesome ... read more

just flew into bangkok, finally. 21 hours on a plane (give or take an hour) someone once said getting there is half the fun... i'd like to meet that man. althogh we had a rather interestring stopover in tokyo. i was rather thirsty so i decided to grab a traditional japanese jar of water, or so i thought, it turns out it was 70% saki. so i did what any self respecting teen would do and challenged my mom to a drinking contest to which she promptly chickened out from, which makes me winner by default i suppose. when we arrived in bangkok we cvaught a cab to our hotel. which was, of course, in thai gang territory and home to countless stray animals, not to mention hookers, and bike gangs. when we woke up we ... read more

Our camera finally has a battery so I am happy to post some photos of our building - both the lobby/playground area and our apartment. Next time we go to the pool, I'll take pictures of that too. Here they are!... read more

Well, the horrible flight finally came to an end and I was jumping out of the plane like a man pardoned from a long prison sentence. I immediately set course for the various information booths to try to pick up a Bangkok Airport time table, which proved a fruitless attempt. All counters showed me their copy and sent me in the direction of the bookshop on the 2nd floor, which naturally had never heard of the item in question. I decide to be a bit proactive, skip about the timetable and head directly to the Thai office to make a reservation for Denpasar on August 4. I imagine a line of 500 people in front of me, but there is no one waiting, so this will be a smooth affair. I ask for a ticket to ... read more