Blogs from Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 727

HULLO Everyone! Its our last nite here on Koh San Rd. in Bangkok and its been crazzy. Its about 5 in the morning right now... and i can walk across the street and use the internet.. ahah. ITS Soooo hot and i needed a bottle of water.. plus maybe i'll beat the hangover. JAM JAN and I are having the times of our lives. Shopping here is amazing. You can basically get ANYTHING!!! for sooo cheap. We're all decked out in Thailand clothing.. colorful . light skirts and tanks. Soo fun. THAI people are such friendly people. They tell Tj he's a very lucky man.. ahah travelling with us four girls.. (three of us and Sara the other guide) THey just loove us Canadians. Met lots of cool travellers from all over the world.. including ... read more

The last I left off, I was at the border between Cambodia and Thailand. We were next to a bus depot that contained several large luxurious busses as well as some old, covered pickup trucks with long wooden benches lining each side. Nobody in the group knew whether our prayers would be answered with passage onto the newer bus or if we were going to spend the next 6 hours to Bangkok in the back of a pickup truck. I should mention here that what was advertised on the tickets bought in Cambodia was a big tour bus, not the minivan from hell or a covered pickup truck. Needless to say, when we were ushered into the back of the pickup truck our hopes for getting some sleep and having a relaxing trip into Bangkok quickly ... read more

Welcome to our next exciting installment.......Thailand (well, exciting for us at least!) We arrived at in Thailand after a loooong day. What was supposed to be a few hours travel (the flight from HCMC to Bangkok is 1.5 hours) turned into an all day affair after our flight was cancelled. We had to hang around the airport for 6 hours (not the nicest airport.....) before getting on the plane and sitting on the tarmack for another hour. All in all we were in transit for about 11 hours including cabs etc. To rub salt into the wound, when we arrived at our hotel they had had a fire in the lobby and we had to be transferred to another hotel!! Oh, and did we mention the $45US excess baggage charge......... thanks to Rach's shopping Anyway, enough ... read more

OK so this is it, the final blog... I now have a passport in desperate need of renewal due to the lack of space for future stamps, and enough air miles to get me to the moon and back, so maybe it is time to return home. Over the past 6 months I have had a great time, and I have been lucky enough to have been able to celebrate 3 New Years which has definitely been an added and unexpected bonus. I have also been fortunate enough to have met many incredible people, both local to the area I was travelling in and also fellow travellers, many of whom have had a tremendous affect on me and have been very inspirational. I have experienced many different cultures, religions, beliefs, and learnt an awful lot about ... read more

Well this is not the last one, i will summarize the trip once i get home and can reflect, but this is a little taste of how things can go bad if one things goes bad!!!!! the other day we try to book this nice hotel to spend the last few days in Thailand...they were supposed to get our plane tickets sent from Canada and that should be no problem right???? Well we get there a week before to drop off our bags before we head south to an island and pick up our tickets to know they arrived in Bangkok. Well there was a merry mix up and our reservation got cancelled, so there we were no rooms, and ofcourse they have no tickets for us, it happens that they refused our tickets two days ... read more