Blogs from Southern Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 15

HEllo from a very sunny KOh Pangan, We arrived 2 days ago with a hellish all day journey starting at 8 am a tiny speed boat then an old dodgy mini bus, a slightly younger mini bus, (then a three hour wait in the absolute middle of now where)a coach then a ferry then a truck we arrived! Staying at a very nice and very cheap hostel/hotel 4 pounds a night for the room! Nice and clean a very nice pool. The weather has finally picked up have spent the last two days sun bathing and swimming and not alot else! We're here for 5 nights our final night being the half moon party which is a big party on the beach with lots of neon paint. From here on to Koh tao which is suppose ... read more

We spent just over a week at the islands to the East of Surat Thani. We started with the biggest...Koh Samui. As we anticipated for Thailand's second largest island, it was very touristy. There were lots of souvineer and clothes shops, as well as lots of restaurants and bars. We stayed in a hostel at one end of the strip; we walked past all the busy restaurants and shops to get to the beach. We had a few cocktails over the 3 days, whilst overlooking the view. There was a street bar that was set up every evening so we often went there before dinner. They played hilariously old-catchy music (Shakira!! Alanis Morisette!! etc!) and gave us free peanuts! On our last evening we went to a night market which was just off the main strip. ... read more

We besloten de bus te nemen naar Thailand. Vanuit Penang – Georgetown – Chunia street (backpackerswijk) waren er verschillende minivans om de grens over te steken naar Thailand. De prijzen waren overal hetzelfde dus we besloten een busje te nemen. De minibus zat vol mensen en we waren blij om in Thailand te zijn na 3 uur rijden. De busrit was gevaarlijk. De chauffeur was een echte Hells Angel, en van handsfree telefoneren had hij nog nooit gehoord zeker? We hadden in Georgetown / Penang ons Thais visum aangevraagd, betaald en het was goedgekeurd. Oef! We konden dus veilig de grens over en hadden 90 dagen tijd om het land te bezoeken. Als je over land gaat krijg je slechts een visum van 15 dagen om het land te bezichtigen. Als je vliegt: 30 dagen. Als ... read more

Koh Samui We arrived late afternoon after an epic journey. We entertained ourselves by watching downton abbey which we had downloaded on the iPad (a godsend on long journeys I tell you). Why the hell hadn't anyone told us how brilliant this series was?! We loved it and started imagining what we would be like if either of us owned a country pile... We did our usual thing of turning up and not having any idea of where to stay (adds to the adventure of it all) so we got a cab to take us to chewang noi, north of the party beach and a little quieter. We asked around and it was relatively expensive for Thailand so trace decided to leave Tash at a bar and go hunt herself rather than have us both lugging ... read more

Hello everyone! We are into our 3rd week of travelling and have just crossed the Malay-Thai border. We are currently based in Hat Yai for the night before an early start tomorrow when we will be travelling to Ko Lipe. Since the Cameron Highlands we haven't really travelled very far, spending the last 10 days on the Perhintian Islands. This is a pair of Islands off the East Coast of Malaysia which is powered by generators and we we staying in bungalows on a golden beach with turqoise blue waters which only had electricity from 7pm-7am every day and no wi-fi which is the reason for the delay since our last blog. I (David N) am sat in our hostel in Hat Yai while the other 3 have all crashed after a long day travelling and ... read more