Thailand Travel Blogs

Still here (and still working)
Apr 30, 2006 (4 photos)

Hello, hope you are all good. Sorry about the lack of communication I am slack and lame and there is no excuse (am working really hard thought!) I am still at the Wildlife Rescue Centre and absolutely loving it! It is hard work and long hours in the ...

Raining D' and B'
Dec 18, 2005 (4 photos)

so, next a short boat ride to koh phangan, the full moon party island, where all the action is found down at the bottom right tip of the island. We took my brothers advise and settled on the quieter side of the island in the opposite corner, hat yao, or ...

Bangkok - That late Christmas feeling.....
Dec 28, 2008 (15 photos)

... for Ibis hotels.  After checking in we headed on over to the famous weekend market in the Chatuchak for some Thailand bargains and were not dissappointed.  The market was absolutely huge and sold absolutely everything you could imagine!  On ...

Ooh! Alcohol...
Jun 11, 2005 (1 photos)

With no sleep since Dharamasala two days before, I found myself on the airport bus to Khao Sahn road. Though I was very happy to be heading away from India, I was not looking forward to Khao Sahn, and was planning to leave for an island as quickly as ...

Day 87: Full Moon Party
Aug 17, 2008 (21 photos)

... in a positive light no matter how grueling it seems at the time, because ya know, it's not every day y one gets to visit Thailand (or Vietnam, or Cambodia, or Indonesia, or Nepal...) We made good time in arriving on Ko Pha-Ngan, with a decent chunk of ...

Day 88, Pt.1: The Aftermath
Aug 17, 2008 (12 photos)

I woke up drenched, shirtless in the sand, having deployed said shirt as a makeshift pillow and splattered with Unknown Liquid at some point while I slept. Not slept actually, half-hearted nap is more like it. I looked around, Jeff was nowhere to be found ...

On the road again
Mar 18, 2005 (27 photos)

... in Thailand. The entire white structure is covered in carved Buddhist art and small pieces of mirrored glass. Thailand had a quickly growing population so they were looking for some sort of population control. The Population and Community ...

Thai Time...
Feb 23, 2008 (14 photos)

... walks and afternoons on the beach. Last night we went out for a seafood barbecue which is really popular on all the Thailand Islands, every restaurant displaying there daily catches in front in a boat display usually with the fish surrounded in ice, you ...

Bangpe - the Ancient City
Apr 28, 2005 (37 photos)

... goldmine. The government has reproductions of traditional palaces, temples, stupas, sanctuaries, houses and boats. They represent Thailand's past and present, covering every region of the country. In all there are over 100 structures spread over 320 ...

Messing about on the river
Nov 9, 2004 (5 photos)

After spending all day in bed yesterday, suffering from a peanut-induced stomach upset, I dragged myself out of my nice air conditioned hotel room to explore the sticky steets of Bangkok. This time, I was determined to avoid tuk tuks and was armed with a ...

Chiang Mai - Up North
Mar 27, 2009 (32 photos)

... ( a sunday) was spent wandering around the weekend market which has brilliant food and craft stalls. This is how I expected Chiang Mai to be, charming and interesting. I guess nowhere in Thailand can escape the inevitable effects of mass tourism.

In Search of the Lucky Buddha
Mar 13, 2005 (35 photos)

... The view from here is breathtaking. Between the decorative roofs of the Temples are the homes of the working class of Thailand. The differences between the opulence and simplicity is extreme.  In search of the Golden Buddha we came back down from ...

Ao Nang
Apr 19, 2009

... has come to move on, we've had an amazing time in Thailand but just recently we've been dying to feel intrepid again. Thailand offers a hedonistic blur of beaches and bars but has sold its soul in many ways. I want to find places a little more undiscovered ...

Ko Phi Phi - New year in Phi Phi...
Dec 30, 2008 (27 photos)

Ko Phi Phi - New Year in Phi Phi Our original plan was to visit Phi Phi for a few days, see in the new year, do a little diving, and then head on out to another island.  We ended up staying on Phi Phi for 9 days and only left because we had to ...

Bangkok - Part one
Mar 23, 2009 (16 photos)

... nbsp;but stay away from the elephants etc, it's just plain cruel. We have had a couple of great nights so far, Thailand is definately a good place to meet other travellers easily, it was much harder in Vietnam. Thai food blows all other we've ...

Riding the short bus
Mar 14, 2005 (23 photos)

... of them missing their heads. The stupas, though damaged, were beautiful. There are so many beautiful historical sites in Thailand but honestly we didn't learn that much about them in our art history courses in college.  Nok explained the ...

Phuket - Well, we had to fly into somewhere
Dec 30, 2008

Phuket - Our gateway to Phi Phi Didn't stay here as it was our gateway to get to Phi Phi but we were both grateful that we weren't staying. Bumping into what seemed like loads of chavs at the airport, whom all seemed drunk already, we had a rush to ...

Thai Times
Sep 1, 2007 (24 photos)

... there is method in my madness! The initial idea of the trip was to spend a month in Japan, but Andy said how a return flight to Thailand was around £250 - so naturally, I had to go - and so extending my trip. The first week in Japan really let me get used ...

Lady boys, and little tops
Dec 2, 2005 (7 photos)

Well we have arrived in Thailand, third country on the list and thank god it's warm again! The biggest shock when we arrived was it was 31 degrees at 7pm and everyone was walking around naked! Well not naked but compared to India and China they were and it ...

Flip Flop Fever
Dec 12, 2005 (7 photos)

So next leg on our perpetual lazy drunken run, was down to the island of ko tao, which we booked before my tattoo, when we still could have dived, but the mills (should 'mills' be in quotation, or is that to much third person) wasn't allowed in the water. ...

A New Year, and a new country
Jan 13, 2009 (46 photos)

... guest house was gorgeous, in the foreground the sleepy border town of Huay Xai, in the background a small river crossing and Thailand :)  I also had some good news to find out that the Christmas presents i had sent home to my family had arrived.... ...

I wish it could be christmas every day
Jan 3, 2006 (17 photos)

... of us squashed in a motor bike rikshaw going to a different bar at 10 miles an hour. We toasted the New Year in Australia and Thailand but could not quite make it for the UK at 7am! Hope you all had a great New Years and wishing good things for 2006 xx ...

Day 84: Roast Crickets & The Cargo Ship
Aug 14, 2008 (3 photos)

... The ferry ride was pleasant enough but arrived in Krabi too late to catch a cross-isthmus bus to the other coast. Geographical lesson: Thailand has two main island paradise coasts: the Andaman Sea, home to Phi Phi, Phuket, and "007 Island," and the Gulf of ...

Thailand sucks!!!
Feb 8, 2005 (3 photos)

... further from our beds than we had to. Debating between going to Koh Chang off the Thai coast or Sihanoukville in Cambodia, we decided that Thailand had sucked so much that we may as well move on to Cambodia. So eager were we to leave that we got up at 4: ...

Bears, Boxing and Bald heads
May 22, 2006 (8 photos)

... Danny the next day and spent the night there before taking the million hour night train to Penang in Malaysia. So farewell Thailand its been fun maybe see you again soon but hello Malaysia and your new sewage system, ringgits and hairdressers.... Take ...

Giving Thanks for Life Abroad Part Deux
Nov 29, 2006

... live in a crime scene filled with ants- but the chalk serves its purpose well. The Council for National Security, Thailand's current government reported that it will be lifting Martial Law in more than half of the country's 76 provinces - conveniently ...

Day 86: The Sweatiest I've Ever Been
Aug 15, 2008 (11 photos)

... in a park featuring a local Thai rock band. Their music sounded vaguely Latino and helped add to an overall impression of South Thailand being the sort of "Mexico of Asia." Also present was a chubby balding old white man lost in a hopeless stupor who ...

Thai Cuisine - The Spice of Life
Aug 16, 2006 (14 photos)

... Oh well, the pad thai looked good! Bringing me to the concept of outdoor cooking. Not all, but mostly all, kitchens in Thailand are outside. I gather there are a few reasons for this. For starters, it is a tropical climate thus being hot and humid and ...

The Venice of Thailand
Sep 8, 2006 (5 photos)

We got up on the friday morning at 4.15am (Not much time for lie ins this week.) We were picked up at 4.45am and were on our way to the World famous floating markets just north of Bangkok.( www.thailandguidebook.com/floatingmarket ) We arrived about 8. ...

Off to China
Aug 21, 2004

After two hours of sleep, I have to get up and pack and get ready for my minibus to the airport. I fly from Bangkok to Xi'an, China.