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Asia » Thailand » South-West Thailand » Chalong May 3rd 2007

"I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone;" ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses" On Kho Phanang, I stayed @ a ridiculous guest house. I paid $3 per night and had a great view of the main beach called Had Rin (home to the Full Moon Party). The guy who owns the guesthouse (we'll call him Krusty) is the ultimate clown. When I first showed up to the guesthouse it was 11 in the morning and I was surprised to see that he was already drinking a beer. He "wooed" me with his charming personality and convinced me to stay @ his guesthouse for the next 5 nights leading up to the full moon party. ... read more
Motobikin
Krusty @ 10pm
Pre Fullmoon Party

Asia » Thailand » South-West Thailand » Chalong April 19th 2007

We're writing to you from the Island of Phuket where we have just spent a superb week of fun in the sun and recooperation! We are at the Southern most town of the island called Rawai. This is a very lazy residential area of Phuket which is really famous (infamous) for its beaches and crazy nightlife. We have steered away from this scene and have enjoyed the slow pace that we have become accustomed to. We are renting a house from a French couple who have recently retired to the area and have built three Thai style homes in a calm out of the way neighborhood. We have all caught up on sleep and have grown to love the loudest cicadas I've ever heard in my life! Mornings sound like we are in the jungle! ... read more
Thai Tuk Tuks
Combattants
New Year Parade

Asia » Thailand » South-West Thailand » Chalong April 13th 2007

Mom and Dad whisk me away... Away from the Thai house and school, away from the backpackers' hostels and shoestring lifestyle. Time for the 5 star hotels and room service and air conditioning and hot showers! Plus I had a whole month's salary to burn in 10 days before I left the country. This was going to be fun. I haven't seen them in ages and I get to the hotel early to check in. It's SongKran- Thai New Year- on the day they arrive so it's very hectic because the entire island turns into a water war. It was a big day. I wait for about an hour in the lobby and finally see my mom's little blond head bobbing up the stairs. Yay! They're here! We hug and mom cries and we get ... read more
Family reunion
I am woman hear me roar..
Kata View

Asia » Thailand » South-West Thailand » Chalong April 8th 2007

Time's fly.. finally last day.. I didn't book anything yet.. but I had to get back today.. since I have to go to work tomorrow.. Plus N.K. & Terje planned to get back to phuket and bangkok today.. and Tiean will go back today too.. so everybody will go back today.. so no point for me to stay in phuket another night.. I woke up in the mornin.. discusses with travel agent on phi phi... tickets booked out.. no more ticket left.. mm.. it's ok.. I'll find the way back.. N.K. & Terje went back to phuket at the same time with me but separate boat.. so we planned to meet in phuket.. I arrived phuket first.. and went straight to bus terminal.. almost couldn't get ticket.. but lucky.. i found one.. then I called Tien.. ... read more
so many people leaving today..
what's that?? a kiss? :P
leaving phi phi

Asia » Thailand » South-West Thailand » Chalong April 3rd 2007

One more time in Phuket.. making my own trip.. arrived the airport in the mornin then my friend since university named "Tien" he would arrive arround 12 so I had plenty of time to explore at Patong Beach first.. after decided to go to Patong to have a look around and find some food.. I called Terje, my norwegian friend who arrived phuket yesterday from bangkok and they are in Patong at the moment so I managed to go see them after I spent few hours at internet cafe for my works.. life is much more fun when working while travelin.. I think.. After finished work, I went to Mcdonald and had strawberry jelly ice-cream waiting for Terje and his friend, ah.. I don't know how to spell his name.. clude? well he let me call ... read more
Patong Beach..
many beach chairs!!!
N.K. - Terje..

Asia » Thailand » South-West Thailand » Chalong February 11th 2007

Today I woke up in my frosted pink room drenched in sweat. As I climbed off of my rock-hard Thai mattress to switch on my fan I realized that our electricity must have gone off. Again. I look outside and see the sun is already up, which means I have overslept and will be late to work. Again. I grab my towel and rush into the shower. I use that word loosely here as our shower is actually a large tiled room semi-detached from the house and consists of a shower head and an upside down spicket-like spout next to the shower head. Because the water pressure from the shower head is so low we use the spicket instead. The water shoots up and rainbows back down like a mini-indoor waterfall which we stand under. I ... read more

Asia » Thailand » South-West Thailand » Chalong January 23rd 2007

After the horrific sights on the boat the next few days were fairly chilled. More beach exploring and more chilling out at the house.Emma and Matt have a sweet place for next to no money. And the area doest have alot of tourists unlike the rest of Phuket.I like It out there.Feels more Thai. But if you want to go and get crazy Patong and the like are not too far away. I still needed a fix of Patong.Go Go bars,trannys etc. Things were a little too chilled!! In the meantime though we hired a jeep.Its crazy you can just walk up no liscence and get a jeep.Then proceed to drive it around these phsycho roads!! I love this place. SO matt did his little tour guide thing and showed us the island. Stopping of at ... read more
Tsunami Warning
Nai Han
Phuket Town

Asia » Thailand » South-West Thailand » Chalong January 17th 2007

So for those that didnt know my suprise worked.The cunning plan of pretending I was going up north when really I was going down to Phuket to suprise my dearest chum Emma on her birthday worked a treat.Months of planning had led to Matt (emmas boyfriend) being my sidekick on this. After 18 hours on a coach with dripping air conditioning I arrived in Phuket town.The next stop was finding Emma and Matts House. This wasnt to hard but the mororbike taxi driver took a few wrong turns and in this heat my back was pouring with lovely skem sweat by the time I arrived.Matt left the key for me and I sneaked into the house but with a few hours to spare I checked out some of the beaches then made my way back for ... read more
Kata Beach
DONT fall asleep in a bar.......

Asia » Thailand » South-West Thailand » Chalong January 4th 2007

A few more pictures of Thailand. Then Off to Vietnam. ... read more
Going on a day trip
Dave the chatter
Dave the photo guru

Asia » Thailand » South-West Thailand » Chalong December 14th 2006

After nearly missing our flight from Chiang Mai! (We are in chill out mode from being in Thailand for so long), we arrived in Chalong to the Phuket International Youth Hostel, oh yes, our 1st experience of a proper 'Hostel'. They had booked us a room for 2 people rather than 3, and so put an extra matress on the floor, short straw to Lesley! (sorry Les!). It was late in the evening by the time we arrived (had flight from Chaing Mai to Bangkok and then another down to Phuket), so we wandered up the road to a nice place to eat as recommended by a lady we met in the hostel. Friday afternoon we caught a taxi to Kata Beach, chilled in the sun and found a really nice, chilled bar called Moonblue to ... read more
Kata Beach Sunset
Moonblue




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