Chumphon, Thailand Travel Blogs

Visa run virgins
Jun 19, 2006 (10 photos)

... 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
May 7, 2008

... 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
Feb 12, 2006

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
Aug 17, 2006 (1 photos)

... 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 all ...

Spider bites and elusive wild elephants
Aug 11, 2003

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.
Aug 30, 2005

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 ...

Birth, Death and more spider bites
Aug 21, 2003

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 reference ...

Back to work
Nov 19, 2003 (15 photos)

... 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 of ...

Chump Nuts
May 19, 2008

... 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 ...

30 Jan - Chumphon
Jan 30, 2008 (1 photos)

Took fast ferry from Koh Tao to Chumphon, our stop over for one night on our way to Chaiya.  Cute little town with a lot of smiling locals, nothing much going on apart from the ongoing stream of tourists waiting to head to their next destination. ...

The Beach?! Are you sure?!
Feb 10, 2009 (5 photos)

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
Nov 3, 2006

... a full moon party is on the 5th), or Koh Samui. We caught a ride in a smaller truck up to city center of Chumphon (about a 15 minute ride), in a typical Thai driving manner...going about a hundred miles an hour and weaving in and out of morning traffic. ...

Day 4 Chumphon to Ko Samui
Dec 3, 2007

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 ...

From Chumphon To Phuket
Feb 4, 2009 (4 photos)

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 ...

Expensive resort
Dec 8, 2006

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 ...

Time for a Visa run!!
Jul 14, 2007

... 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 thinking, ...

Mergui Archipel
Apr 8, 2007 (15 photos)

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
Jan 25, 2008 (2 photos)

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 wasnt ...

Back to Bangkok
Jul 10, 2007 (7 photos)

... a cut but a wash and massage too. The hairdresser was made up to be cutting an Englishman's hair .The people of Chumphon seem a lot friendlier here, rather than just wanting your cash. We were supposed to be catching 23:24 train back to Bangkok that ...

a night in Chumphon
Feb 13, 2005

... I'd take this chance to write a little something whilst steph's busy writing Emails. We are staying the night in the small port of Chumphon, ready to catch the ferry to Ko Pha-ngan early tomorrow. Our journey here by train and bus from the north, took a ...

Bye bye islands...
Sep 7, 2007

Got off the catameran and on to the bus to Bangkok

trains and more trains - 28 hours to Chiang Mai
Oct 8, 2008 (4 photos)

... - no biggie, this sort of thing happens all the time).  The ferry trip was a 'not so pleasant' hot trip of 3 hours into Chumphon.  It made no sense where to sit as everywhere was warm, no entertainment, no food so everyone just laid about on the ...

17 Feb - Chumphon..again
Feb 18, 2008

Back to the middle of nowhere for another night before heading to Hua Hin the next day.  Okay, so we got a bit lazy and opted for staying in the same place in the same sleepy town but it was good to have that sense of familarity. ...

Transit Through Chumphon
Jun 27, 2007 (4 photos)

So about 2 pounds bought us a lovely bumpy overnight coach ride to Chumphon from Bangkok, in which I attempted to sleep, but we kept stopping at random locations for the driver to get off and have a fag or something, so I kept waking up thinking we were ...

Prachuap Khiri Khan - ankle strain!!!
Apr 17, 2005 (10 photos)

... ..relax Giovani musicisti/alcolisti thailandesi crescono. E' grazie a loro che ho assaggiato il mio primo whiskey made in Thailand - il SongSan. Una mattina non avendo sonno ho dimostrato ancora una volta tutta la mia stupidita' andando a ...

Gotta get off these Islands...
Apr 14, 2006

... a happy ending massage (unless your into that kinda thing of course). Have to say that if I only take one thing out of Thailand then it is that you learn not to judge anybody or anything - anything goes and the quicker you loose your western moral outrage ...

Boat trip arround Koh Phangang
Dec 5, 2006 (12 photos)

Decided to take a boat trip around the island today.  We got up and walked to 'Chicken Corner'.  We noticed how windy it was on the East side of the island, but paid no mind as we were leaving from the west side.  As soon as we got on the ...

shout out #8
Sep 3, 2006

... to the border. we then officially left thailand, took a boat to myanmar, stamped our passports, and officially re-entered thailand with a new 30 day visa. chumphon is the point of departure for koh tao, an island in the gulf of thailand. the next day i ...

Leaving Prachuap
Feb 2, 2009 (10 photos)

... if we had taken  the more conventional routes.       After around 6 hours we arrive in Chumphon and are greeted by a perfect English speaking Thai tourist guide, once we have extracted the info we need we briskly make our ...

Chumphon Train Station
Aug 12, 2006 (3 photos)

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