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Chumphon Slideshow
Top Hotels in Chumphon
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Novotel Chumphon Beach Resort & Golf
117 reviews -
Chumphon Cabana Resort & Diving
18 reviews -
Chumphon Gardens Hotel
20 reviews
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Tusita Resort And Spa Chumphon
17 reviews
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Nanaburi Hotel Chumphon
8 reviews
Chumphon
Travel Blogs from Chumphon, Thailand
Visa run virgins
This is a top pick! ... to take the night boat and the lady explains we will travel on the car ferry (11pm) which has beds, blankets and pillows to Chumphon. A mini bus will pick us up from there at 6am and take us to the boat which will cross the Burmese border and then back ...
Ko Pha Ngan & Chumporn - Day 74
This is a top pick! ... overcast and windy days on Ko Pha Ngan. The day I leave the weather improves, what can I say. This afternoon caught a Catamaran to Chumphon on the mainland via Ko Tao, then a 9 hour coach journey to Bangkok which wasn't as bad as it sounds. The coach ...
trip to ko samui part 1
This is a top pick! Hey every body. we are doin the trip in 2 parts so that u can see on the map exactly where we have been! so we left bangkok 2 nights ago. we were supposed to get the bus at 8 in the evening, except that it decide not to turn up untill 10 30 so we both ...
Chumphon - Gateway to Ko Tao
This is a top pick! ... over with, it went so quickly! We took a tuktuk out to the border and spent the last of our kip, and crossed back into Thailand via the Lao/Thai Friendship Bridge. As soon as we crossed the border we knew we were back in Thailand! Sealed roads, 7-11's ...
Back in the Hills!
This is a top pick! ... After an early lunch of more delicious pad thai and decided we should try and make it to Thung Wua Laen beach (just north of Chumphon) and have a day off there, maybe doing some kite surfing. Two miles later we were gutted to see a sign half an hour ...
Spider bites and elusive wild elephants
This is a top pick! Monday 11th August... Finished week one at WFFT Sanctuary (www.wfft.org for anyone who wants to have a look), only 3 more weeks to go. I could really use a day off now as starting work at 6:30am every day is killing me! A few of the volunteers went on ...
Feel free to root through Tilly's bag, Sir.
This is a top pick! We set off from Bangkok at 6.30pm, only to be dropped in an unknown place somewhere near Chumpon at 3am, made to wait til 4am then taken to another place to wait for our next bus/boat combo at 6.30am. In answer to the title, the bus drivers managed to ...
Jim'll Fix It
This is a top pick! ... seaside resort, but eventually decided to save it for further on, when we might actually have some sunshine. The 15mile ride to Chumphon town went smoothly, and drinking iced lattes by the picturesque train station we felt good to be back in the saddle. ...
Beachy Day Off
This is a top pick! Miles Cycled: 0!!!!!!!!! Today has been another heavenly day off after 4 intense days of cycling. We woke to sunny skies and the blissful feeling of nothing to do except rest and recover. The room owner cooked us an enormous fry-up when we eventually ...
Birth, Death and more spider bites
This is a top pick! Friday 22nd August... So much has happened since I last wrote in this I don't know where to start... Old volunteers have left, new people have arrived...the group at the moment is really fun. I should name them all just in case of future ...
Back to work
This is a top pick! ... of people. I supposedly had two days off on Sunday/Monday but it involved going with Truls, Bram and Edwin to stay in Ranong in southern Thailand and then over to Burma to get a new visa. Then the next day we rescued 2 gibbons - one of 2 months and one ...
Tuk the Train to the Cat to get to the Turtle
Ko Tao = Turtle Island. Our next destination. It was a reccomendation on the basis of Ko Samui being very busy and overun by bars and louts. The journey required a series of little transfers and a 12 hour semi-epic trip. We left the serviced ...
Chumphon
... a female Praying Mantis! The owner Nigel told me that Cobras are a common sight here, but I wasn't lucky enough to see one!!! Chumphon Palm Resort is without a doubt the best hostel I have stayed in! The rooms were clean, the staff very friendly and went ...
Chump Nuts
... next island we had to travel by boat, bus, tuk tuk, mini-bus, and tuk tuk again! We arrived early evening in Chumphon which is a real nothing coastal town that only sees tourists stop for one night before they go off th the Eastern Islands. Cream ...
A Suprisingly Quick Overnight Journey to Chumphon
Not quite as expected the seats reclined quite a bit and it's quiet so I get two seats...at the beginning. I always seem to forget more people get on at different stops so the carriage quickly fills up. We noticed a group of loud and drunk Irish ...
The Beach?! Are you sure?!
Nothing planned this morning other than breakfast and heading for the beach! This is what we have all been waiting for!! Deck chairs lined up, sun block on and chillax! Never happy, within 3 hours we are happy to leave the beach and get ...
Night Bus to Chumphon
... Chang beers, which helped us sleep later as well as run back and forth to the bathroom...lol. We arrived at the pier south of Chumphon, were most people were going to catch the boats over to Koh Tao, Koh Phangan (were I suspect most people are headed as ...
Day 4 Chumphon to Ko Samui
It was dark when we arrived at the pier, but it was very warm. There were some deck chairs so we got four and sat around chatting and eating pot noodles. We have so enjoyed AJ and Michael's company, they are very well travelled and have some ...
Overnight Bus from Bangkok to Chumphon
The bus left Bangkok at 9pm. A film was shown - The Prince of Persia. 2 minutes from the end, the film audio changed to Thai... lots of laughing! We both managed a few naps, before arriving at at Chumphon Pier at 7am! ...
Happy, Crappy Birthday
... first needed to receive a code, texted to our cell phone from the bank. Which just so happened to be impossible, since we were in Thailand! Sooo, after a $19 phone call to Australia to explain that to us, we set off to find another way. We asked a tuk-tuk ...
From Chumphon To Phuket
We took the bus earlyish as its an 8 hour bus ride, but a fun one - Looking out the window on the way it seems like the road is cut through mountains and woodland and some of the roads really are not for the faint hearted. We stopped once ...
A secret beach and lots of Miao!
Leaving Pattaya, we took a bus to Bangkok then a sleeper train to Chumphon (8 hours). There were no beds on the train available, so we had reclining seats which were so uncomfortable! Arriving in Chumphon at 6am we quickly found a cafe that sold bread ...
The Bangkok Boyz take on the Night Life!
... and he later ran around the back of the bar and threw up as the cocktail of drinks in his system was too much! Overall all the games and times spent drinking in Chumphon were absolutely class! really great memories here with quality ...
Expensive resort
We decided to stop off in the northern part of the south of Thailand, in Hue Hin, our first beach in a month. Although it was lovely, it was an expensive resort so we couldnt really afford to stay there long. A good stop off point before reaching the ...
Bangkok Bound
Woke up in a sweat soaked matress when Cullen chapped on the door at 9.30am, then after waking us up, went right back to his bed. Couldn't get back to sleep after that annoyingly. It was sooo uncomfortabley hot. Need to make sure air-con is on the ...
Time for a Visa run!!
... the huge river to Thailand, another 30 days granted at a fee of $20..... YEAH! From there I caught a mini bus to Chumphon, where I am staying tonight, then catching the boat to Ko Tao to commence my diving. (now I know what you are ...
Barf Bag Musings
... seldom have, and one that happens only on the most unexpected occasions. We are currently in THAILAND, which is amazingly beautiful and exactly the type of place I want to be right now. Huge lush green jungles everywhere, ...
Shipyards, school kids, and spirit houses
... out of the offerings—they are in true sailor fashion. Notice the money, lighters, and cigarettes (cigarette packages in Thailand all have the most grotesque photographs on the outside: images of people with throat cancer, or a mouth with teeth ...
Mergui Archipel
Unsere erste Tauchdestination nach der grossen Reise war das Mergui Archipel im aeussersten Sueden von Myanmar. Mit dem kleinen Tauchschiff MV Faah Yai und zusammen mit 8 gleichgesinnten und gutgelaunten leidenschaftlichen Tauchern durchkreuzten wir ...
Waiting for the Train in Chumpon
Instead of taking the night train Bangkok, like every other traveller, we thought we would spend one night in Chumpon to take the day train. The day train was even cheaper and an hour shorter! Seemed like an obvious choice, really. The town itself ...