Blogs from Khao Lak, South-West Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 10

5th mar Breakfast today was a yummy banana shake and honey pancake!!! mmm. After getting our transfer back to Krabi bus station and being delayed by 45mins as they overbooked the bus, they end up cramming 5 people onto the backseat and putting stupid stickers on us yet again. When we arrive at Khao Lak we try to get to the National Park to stay in some bungalows but that was a waste of time and we end up sitting around for 2hrs trying to decide what to do as Khao Lak seems too touristy (became this way when all the volunteers showed up). Eventually we check into a place called Tarzans where there is only one king sized bed that we have to share but the room is huge and everywhere else is pretty much ... read more

From Phuket's lovely beach at Nai Yang, I travelled north to the more rustic beach at Khao Lak. It was here that I noticed the most devastation from the Tsunami.... read more

Hi again, I'm really enjoying my time at Khao Lak. It's nice to be in one place for more than a week & not having to repack my back-pack. I think I get know more people here every day. Most of them are either from the US, Australia or the UK. Still helping as a volunteer & mostly on painting detail. I kind of enjoy it in a sad kind of way but I am getting extremely bored with white emulsion. Tomorrow I will probably be staring at the ceiling mostly....no...not in my room :) I did come off the back of a motorbike last week but fortunately just have grazes & bruises as a result. We were pretty "ting tong" as they say here as we tried get 3 of us up a very steep ... read more

Lately I've been placing some photos that may not really show what's going on here, so this time I'll be more candid. Maybe this time you can see what I'm doing here besides getting lots of sunshine and meeting lots of friends. The Bangkok temple group photo was taken about three weeks ago when I was asked by Airline Ambassadors International (AAI) to be their Project Manager on a proposal by the temple to build a small trade school within the compound. About ten students from disadvantaged backgrounds will attend a 3-4 month school to learn electrical skills, electronics repair and assistant nursing. Just recently I received an email from AAI that they have decided to fund this project. This means I could be in Bangkok for around 4-5 months. In the interim period I have ... read more

In light of all that has been going on here with playgrounds, tsunami relief, orphanages, and traveling to villages spread out along the main roadway, I do find some time to enjoy myself. But even that becomes part of the overall picture here in Thailand. I have found that even my new friends are connected to my personal pilgrimage here. The first photo of the large group of people are the wonderful people of the tsunami refugee camp that was set up here just a week after the tsunami. Funded by the Duang Prateep Foundation in Bangkok, it has dwindled from 6,000 inhabitants to a mere one hundred. Among these left at the camp are thirty children. About three to four times a week I visit the camp either while on my way to a project ... read more