Blogs from Western Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 2

Nad ranom som musel vypnut fan a prikrit sa dekou. Z ubytka vypadnutie nieco po 9.00. Misia ranajky vybavena na mojej turistickej ulici, kde ma zrejme odrbali. Dvaja domaci predemnu platili 20b, mne povedala 30b ale neviem co mali ti domaci na taniery. Pokracujem k vojenskemu cintorinu. Tu akurat dorazil bus s turistami tak som to pofotil len zvonka. No zajtra sa sem vratim a pojdem tu odlovit kesku. Pri cintorine kupujem pohladnice. Predavac na jednu pise nieco po thajsky, ktovie komu je urcena tato pohladnica. Daju sa tu kupit aj znamky ale poplatok je 3b/ks. Ma to tam vypisane. Nuz to odmietam a idem na postu. Ta sice dost daleko ale mam kopu casu. Ako si tak kracam po hlavnej, zrazu mi nieco teple pristalo na ruke. Osral ma vtak, odniesli si to aj kratase. ... read more

A railway very much connected with a bridge, a brother very much connected to a brother and a market very much connected to a train Thailand is a large country and there are hundreds of places we would like to visit throughout the country. There was no way for us to squeeze in more than a handful of those on this trip. Bangkok was an obvious first choice since we flew in and out of there. We wrote about most of the places we visited in Bangkok in our previous blog entry. Here we are going to write about the other places in Thailand we went to. Samut Songkram Bangkok is big, chaotic, noisy and is far from being the most beautiful place in the world. We wanted to see a tiny bit more of what ... read more

booked a tour to the death railway as it is called here. The tour picked us up at our hotel in Bangkok along with 8 additional people from there hotels. A couple hours later we were taken to the war memorial in Kanchanaburi to view prisoner barracks and the history of the construction of the railroad from Thailand to Burma. Marie an I took the tour long tail boat up the river to the railroad bridge. There we all boarded a train to the end of the line near the Miramar border. Had a nice lunch and were dropped off at our 5 star Dheva Mantra Hotel back in Kanchanaburi. The movie bridge is misleading as there were 2 bridges side by side. both were bombed a couple times and rebuilt by the Japanese with prisoner ... read more

Day 13 - ok so it's all catching up with me a bit! I woke up when the alarm went off feeling really crusty. In no way up for a full day tour with a group of other tourists, so Todd went and saw reception to cancel. It cost us 30% of the tour cost, but it was worth it for the sleep in. Todd came back to bed and we crashed back out until 10:30. It was great! I woke up feeling better, but not wonderful, so we lazed around for a while longer then got all our laundry and stuff together from the past 2 weeks. We discovered that we can send the laundry out for 50 baht a kilo.....yes......this is amazing! We bagged it all up and Todd and Kalyb dropped it off ... read more

Day 11 - So today we are heading to Kanchanaburi, which is home to the River Kwai and the famous bridge that crosses it. I had planned on us taking the train from Bangkok to Kanchanaburi, which uses sections of the original death railway itself, but for some reason everyone we meet in Thailand strongly discourages using the trains......this is proably because they are trying to get our business for himself or his brother or his Auntie's Cousin's half sister Pete, and taking the train doesn't get our baht into the driver economy. Regardless of this, the people we have spoken too have generally made good arguments against the train, it's slow and uncomfortable and often late/delayed. Anyway, we got up and packed our stuff, ready to leave the Shanghai Mansion and upon checkout, the porter ... read more