Blogs from Ko Chang, Central Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 6

Hello Everyone, After a long and smelly flight from Sydney (we sat next to the toilets where some poor guy was throwing up for 8 hours! )we arrived in Thailand to a warm and humid Bangkok. We took the first available local bus from the airport and got dropped off just outside our hostel, excellent service and much cheaper then a taxi. We stayed one night in Bangkok, at Lub'd, we spent the time sorting out Steve's visa for Vietnam. I was happy to find out that I don't need a visa for Vietnam, just one of those perks you get for being Swedish. We didn't want to hang around in Bangkok for too long so we decided to leave Steve's passport at the Vietnamese embassy and to pick it up again just before our flight ... read more

Get ready for some video! Hi from us to all the people at home, and the ones following this blog. Unfortunately Lise has a migraine attack right now, so I took the opportunity to upload some videos. The wifi connection here is out, but that's ok since I have a wired connection and videos upload faster that way. And I'm sitting in the restaurant / lounge area, waiting for my chicken salad to arrive! I'll start off with a video from the past. The taxi ride from Poipet to Siem Reap. The video runs for about10 minutes, so not too long! Here you go : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Coi5EfdXhPc And now for some more current things, our arrival at the Cliff Cottage on Ko Chang. I've managed to upload all 3 videos I've made so far, all last night, ... read more

Blog 13 - Koh Chang and the Elephants! After the craziness of Bangkok we only had a few days left on our Thai visa so decided to head to the island of Koh Chang before facing the land border crossing into Cambodia. After a 4 hour bus ride and a half hour ferry journey we arrived on the island of Koh Chang, there is so many different places to stay on this mountainous island and nearly all the beaches to stay have a wide selection of accommodation to chose from. We decided to stay on white sands beach as we were only going to be here for a couple of days. Both of us were quite taken back by how developed parts of Koh Chang were and how well integrated with rainforest jungle and hills the ... read more

Von Yangon / Myanmar ging es dann mit 2 Fliegern und einer Fähre direkt nach Koh Chang. Die Internet Wetterberichte waren bei dieser Entscheidung keine grosse Unterstützung. Für Koh Chang wurde uns “Gewitter mit viel Sonne bei gleichzeitigem stark bewölkten strahlend blauen Himmel” angekündigt. Bis jetzt manchmal Gewitter, Sonne am Nachmittag, leicht bedeckt und ziemlich schwül. Uns taugt´s. Die erste Herberge buchten wir direkt am Flughafen. Nach dem Betreten des Zimmers bekam es den Namen Hotel Schweissfuß-Resort, weil sich dieser penetrante Geruch einfach nicht rauslüften lies. Klingt nach larmoyanten Wiener (ähm Klosterneuburger), war aber so. Die Gäste bestanden aus zwei Familien, ein paar Russen (die sich wirklich bemühten jedes Klischee zu untermauern), uns und dann mixed couples. Also man kennt es - europäische Männer die sich in asiatische Frauen monetär und zeitlich befristet v... read more

We spent a lovely few days lying by the pool and at the beach; on our first trip to white sand beach, when we were eating lunch, mum got bitten by a very hairy and mean looking spider, considering that’s how Peter Parker became Spiderman I think mum may now be SpiderNan!!!! As we hadn’t seen much of the island we booked ourselves onto an unknown Koh Chang day trip, it started off with a trip to a Mahout village and an hour on an elephant. Mum was quite hesitant to start with but took to it pretty quickly, I however was not so comfortable and was kind of glad when we got off! Tel and Peter both had a go at being mahouts and sitting on the elephants neck, peter looked very at home Mahout ... read more