... Spartan-ness of it all was still funny. With four hours to kill we wandered out into town in search of the main nightmarket. Every Southeast Asian town/city has at least one nightmarket, and they're always great time killers and people watching spots. ...
... With upwards of five hours to kill in tinsy Phun Phin, we wished Mr. Belgian the best of luck and explored town. The nightmarket here was understandably smaller and less interesting than that in much busier SuratThani, but Jeff found his beloved oyster ...
... be in that position.
Finally I arrived Pha-Ngan, an easy going island which always been my dear old friend. Pan and I went to the nightmarket together. It's wonderful to be with her because she knows everybody in town!
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... no hot water to shower with. It was cheap and basically clean (very basic!!). We took ourselves off to the local Chinese street nightmarket, but have to admit we ended up in Pizza Hut as the deep fried locusts did not appeal for some reason.
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... a monkey, and an enormous beehive. Afterwards we were given a driver and drove 1 hour and twenty minutes to SuratThani. We went to the nightmarket around the corner from the train station and started to buy fruit pastries and other items until mom said ...
... Bangkok, and booked a flight to Chaing Mai that evening!
We got to Chaing Mai met up with eddie and Linds and went to the nightmarket! Our plan was to stay for 3 days...Wrong we thought our visa was good for 3 more days but really we were overdue by ...
... so that they could keep a copy.
After an hour it was too dark to take any more pictures, but now the SuratThaninightmarket was in full swing. SuratThani's nightmarket is definitely geared toward the local Thai population more than ...
... and inquiring in a tourist information centre about things to see, we were pointed in the direction of the shopping centre and the nightmarket. Both of these 'sights' occupied us for all of 45 minutes before we de-camped to a coffee shop and used their ...
... to Ranong (from where I'll enter Burma to renew the Thai visa), but it's ok. Off the touristic path, just a passing by, you get a more realistic picture of Thailand. I am together with a Canadian guy and we just returned from a walk to the night ...
... all exclusively Chinese; so no one to talk to then. I sat in the back and just read my book. The journey to SuratThani on the east coast of Thailand took around nine hours. A few hours in we crossed the border at Hat Yai and I had my passport ...