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Kawthoung Slideshow
Kawthoung
Travel Blogs from Kawthoung, Myanmar
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Visa Run
This is a top pick! ... people come here and they have the easy come-and-go process worked out so it's fast and smooth. So I can now say I was in Myanmar and have the stamps to prove it....but I can't exactly say I got to know the place or its people. Now, back ...
Border Run to Burma
This is a top pick! ... flying. Dave actually puked. From Phuket we bussed it 5 1/2 hours to Ranong. Our only mission here was to go on a visa run to Myanmar (Burma) and back as our 30 day visa was about to expire. As luck would have it, the morning of our run we were searching ...
Duuu duuu duuu do datamm....
War das eine Ueberraschung: Ich komme fruehmorgens in Ranong am Pier an, um das Boot nach Koh Chang zu nehmen und da haengt ein selbstgemaltes Plakat: 4.1.09 Big Reggae Party at Koh Phayam - Job2Do live! Job2Do ist eine sehr erfolgreiche ...
Sweedes galore
Yesterday we headed back to Phuket town to get a bus to Kao Lak. We had over an hour to wait so we went off in search of a cluoy pan (AKA banana milkshake) in the scorching heat with big backpacks in tow. We admitted defeat after half an hour but luckily ...
Full Moon Party and Ko Pha Ngan
Its another sweltering day inspite of the hourly showers that have been happening all week, I have been on the lovley little island Ko Pha Ngan for 4 days now and will be returning to Bangkok at the end of the week. Its been another great week, The Full ...
Burma Visa Run- Ranong (Thai) to Kawthoung, Burma
... week Visa for US$10, even though we mentioned that we would be leaving that same day both times. Soon after getting through Myanmar immigration, we were surrounded by young boys that wanted to be our tour guides for our stay. We tagged around with ...
Similan/Richelieu Liveaboard
A four day/four night liveaboard, taking in the Similan Islands, Koh Bon, Koh Tachai before finally, Richelieu Rock and diving with a whale shark! We set off after a suprisingly small amount of (pointless) hanging around.from Chalong on the MV ...
from Battanbang to Koh Lanta
hi, everyone. Our last night in Battanbang was quite interesting. Specially because during the whole day we did not do much only wander around the streets and also argue a bit, cause we were really tired and hot. But we managed to find out where to ...
Southern Thailand
Sawatdee krap! This week we've been exploring parts of southern Thailand. On Monday we arrived at Khao Sok National Park where we stayed in little huts in the rainforest for two nights. It was so cool! The noise took a bit of getting use to! It was ...
operation VISA RUN
... given where we're located, the easiest or lets say the least difficult way to solve our problem is to leave thailand and enter myanmar (burma). and then re-enter the same day. there are a bunch of people from all over the world doing visa runs. ...
Still Chilling on Ko Payam
... a last great meal with some people before I leave the island. Will be leaving the island on 29th to do another visa-run to Myanmar and then most likely go a little south to spend real tourist time at Ko Surin, where the snorkeling around the 9 little ...
Have a look inside my temporary 'home'
Hello lovely people, I organised everything in my little bungalow, decorated the kitchen space, hang my hammock and washed the dogs ;-)))) so now you can come and have a look inside...see photos! This will be my home for about a month untill I ...
Heading South for Some Beach Time
I had been eager to see some virgin beach since Dane and I first started planning this trip and looking at pictures in guidebooks. We were going to hit the beaches first, a nice reward after finishing my thesis, but we needed to head north instead ...
Another Beach Paradise
We didn't want to spend all of Amy's vacation on one beach, so after a few days on Koh Phi Phi we decided to head over to another spot rumored to be a paradise - Railey. It's actually a little peninsula jutting off the mainland, but it has the feel ...
Burma by boat
... smaller lad who had just popped in the scene, so am I said the you girl of about 11 years of age. The town of Kawthoung has a market, a chinese temple and a jetty so the benifits of a guide are very slim, despite our request to visit Burma alone the ...
Penang, Malaysia
Penang, Malaysia Wednesday, March 21, 2007 Excursion: Georgetown by Trishaw, 3 hours, $54 each Note from Cynthia: I don't know why we stopped three times in Malaysia--we stopped at KK, Kuala Lumpur, and Penang. Once would have ...
Un giorno in Birmania
... un timbro per una visita di un giorno. Timbri fatti, tempo di tornare in Thailandia. Do un'ultima occhiata alle strade di Kawthoung prima di risalire sulla barca; la gente mi saluta e sorride, proprio come quei 3 camerieri a Ko Samui, anche loro ...
Kawthoung - Myanmar Visa Run!
... north of Phuket. On arrival at the Thai-side border town we got stamped out of the country and jumped on a boat to Kawthoung, Myanmar. A busy port town mostly full of people extending their visas. On arrival we got stamped in and out of the country in ...
Chilling on other paradise island
2 hours on the boat from Ranong, going to Ko Phayam: a small island on the West Coast of Thailand in the Andaman Sea. It is small and less touristy. I was offered to stay at the bungalow of thai rainbow sister, but as I got there I found out it did not ...
A taste of Burma
We had to go to Burma (now called Myanmar) so we could renew our Thai 30 day visas. You have to leave Thailand, get a departure stamp go to another country and come back. Bit of a waste of time but we get a Burmese stamp in our passports, yey. We had to ...
One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish
We just spent the last four days on a Liveaboard Dive Boat in the Similan Islands. Whereas Khao Lak is rainy and muggy, the monsoon is finished in the Similans. We had nothing but sunny weather for the four days. Similan means nine in Thai and the ...
Phi phi
So I arrived in Phi Phi and if I remember correclty it was one that Mr Wiggins and Claire and Nicki (friends from beijing) said i should visit, good choice Mr Wigginsand Girls from Beijing. Arrived and the weather was great. got off of the ...
Dive Boat to Similan Islands
After trekking in the jungle and being in exhausting heat it was time for the beach. We made our way down from Laos back into Thailand, through Bangkok and down to Phuket. There was mixed information on the amount of damage to the Similan Islands from ...
Burma (Or: Our Burmese Visa Run)
... missed a huge national disaster that's taken the lives of tens of thousands of Burmese. We really didn't want to visit Myanmar and contribute any money that would support its government, but we didn't really have any choice. Thai immigration ...
Rannong and then across the boarder
Rannong was literally just a stop so Lyd and i could get on a long tail boat across the river from Thailand to (Myanmar or Bhurma). The whole thing was a bit dodgy, i was a day over my visa and Lyd was three so i paid my 200Bht and got my passport stamped ...
Kawthaung, Myanmar
... dotted with islands and banana trees and the feeling of ancient buddhas in pure nature. I love Myanmar!! I'm glad the modernisation in Thailand hasn't hit Myanmar yet. It's well worth visiting before it ...
Burma Visa Run
My first two months of my visa where up and so it was time to nip over to the neighboring country of Burma (although now it's called Myranmar) to get another two months in Thailand. Took a package called the Adman Club which people at Ban's where ...
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