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Travel Blogs from Patong Beach, Phuket, Thailand
The Names Bond...Leornardo Bond
This is a top pick! ... too good - despite having a blanket, it was freezing! Arrive in Phuket town, where all the Taxi drivers offer to take me to Patong Beach for 200 bhat, wont find it cheaper etc etc and the Phuket town centre is kilometeres away. I walk the 2km to the ...
James Bond Island Trip
This is a top pick! Today I went on a cool day trip to James Bond Island, a location where they did some filming on the 007 film Man with the Golden Gun with Roger Moore. Several other islands were included which were actually better to visit but I think the tour ...
A Taste of Mexico in Thailand
This is a top pick! I am in southern Thailand on the island of Phuket...pronounced Poo-Get, not F*#* It. I'm visiting my Mexican buddy Carlos, who I got to know well over a bottle of good tequila while I was working in a hostel in Uruguay. He ...
Merry Christmas 2007
This is a top pick! ... red. Anything to please the tourist I suppose. Which brings me to my next point; I am not in the real Thailand. Although it's fun here and cheap for me while staying for nothing in Carlos' house, this place is tourist central and ...
Thailand - the land of opportunity!
This is a top pick! ... . 'The bus station is closed'! What bus stations shut at 6pm. I hated this man, and so far I hated Thailand! Begrudgingly, I went with the others to Patong beach, where I decided I would spend the night and get myself up to Khao Sok first thing in the ...
June 8 2008
This is a top pick! ... a good deal, because the American breakfast was really big and good. After breakfast we asked a tuk-tuk driver about going to Patong beach. It's not that far away and he wanted 400B. Outrageous! It's 400B to Phuket Town, which is ...
Leave me alone!!
Efter en lang rejsedag I går er vi nu nået frem til Phuket I Thailand, helt præcist neonbyen Patong! Førstehåndsindtrykket af Thailand var noget traumatisk. Da vi trådte ud af terminalen, blev vi bogstaveligt talt overfaldet af dusinvis af thaiere, ...
Despair and Pride
The other day i was sitting on the remains of the beach wall smoking a cigar and watching the sunset. Enjoying the solitude and taking a few minutes to appreciate the road that led me to that beach in the first place. I saw a woman walking along the ...
damn shame...
... condiments..." so sayeth Ayhn Moxley. I whole heartedly agree with such an assessment about the state of affairs in Patong. My craving for pancakes & maple syrup and the local restauranteurs inability to satisfy is a sure indication that the time ...
Wild Thailand
... on the road where ever and who drops you off where ever, for about an hour to the other side of Phuket island to the infamous Patong Beach. This is place you see in movies about Thailand. There are ladyboys everywhere and many of them would ...
Phuket
... all be subject to a blog of it's own! Right now I am sitting in a sweet resort about 100 metres from Patong Beach Phuket. Got a great deal and the hotel looks like an old school asian building with free breakfast and the grounds are just ...
Maybe i was wrong....
Maybe it isn't my job to figure out what I am supposed to do with the rest of my life, but rather what the rest of my life wants to do with me.... Maybe my only job is to be educated and prepared enough to handle it when it happens... Trying to ...
Patong Beach - Thailand
... the duration of our 23 days in Phucket. Its atmosphere was more exciting and cosmopolitan than elsewhere. The first weeks stay at the Patong Beach Lodge was not extendable so we found a better home in the Amata Resort until we left. This was only 2 ...
Between Klingon and a Dyslexic Crossword Puzzle
That's what it feels like to learn Thai. Its quite a bit of good fun actually. My instructor is a 26 year-old guy from Chiang Mai who looks like he is 12. Kroo (teacher) Dan. Beyond just the rote memorization, it has also been interesting to see how ...
Patong Beach, Phuket.
... . I know we sound negative writing this but there are far more beautiful places in the world than here. Hopefully the rest of Thailand is nicer. At night we couldn't find a decent restaurant to eat in. All the authentic Thai restaurants are at least 5 ...
A Night to End the Fight Early
When you reach a certain number of weeks away from home, does it cease to be a holiday? Is there a fixed point? Maybe that point is when you exceed the "allowable" number of days as set by HR and decide that the job is expendable.... Maybe its ...
Last week - Tsunami warning etc
... to the higher ground, we all just sat tight, the previous Tsunami didnt make it to our hotel so we were pretty safe! I will probably return to Thailand in November for my next India visa run, so Im going to save some of the big shopping for ...
almost done
... just another day. I sat and watched the waves this morning. Same as I have done just about every morning that I stayed in Phuket. Not sad. Not happy. just here....and kind of hungry. Grateful for all that i have seen and done, and completely ...
2nd Day of diving
... Nobody's bothered about it though, and it was even explained to me that young women usually go out with much older men in Thailand (few would go out with men in their 60+'s, unless they're after something other than a relationship). Anyway, off for a ...
What? Thailand again
... who come here for the diving. So far I have been to a few bars, had a few beers... We are staying in Patong on the South-West coast of Phuket, the company resort is on the middle of the east coast so poor Ashwin has to take a taxi over the other ...
Shooting. . .
... got to hold an eagle (great video) for 100 baht, normally those kinda things will cost you $30, so its great to be able to afford the cool stuff now. For the first time in 3 weeks, we swam in the sea at Patong beach. Very clear salty water, great ...
It's got sand, water, palm trees and tourists
Phuket, an island in the south of Thailand and the second most visited location in the country. I took a look at the beach... it was nice, but nothing new or special. Sand, water, palm trees and tons of tourists. Oh yeah... and more ...
Phuket
... . Now Phuket is a famous tourist destination and I am probably being a little unkind to call the whole of Phuket tacky, but where we stayed at Patong Beach certainly is. The Taunton family made the trek to downtown Patong Beach a week or so ago. Me ...
Drunken nights and lazy beach days
... the water. I was a very beautiful sight to see from the air. We arrived in Phuket and took the 30 minute taxi ride south to Patong Beach. We had heard all the stories of this place being a chaotic array of bars, clubs and tourists, and so we were here to ...
The rain in Thailand falls mainly in Phuket
... they laid on a taxi for us and we just made it to Krabi town centre in time for our minibus to Patong, which is the biggest resort on the island of Phuket. For once on our travels we thought that we'd avoided been scammed but after 3 hours on the bus the ...
Jesus Christ When is this over?!?!??!?!
... last day i was here because by that time, it was exactly how i felt. Its how i feel today too. I came back to Patong because the food in Krabi was shit and riding back in made me groan...this shit again. Another hotel room. Another scooter to ...
4 Airports in 1 day...
... , listening to Tata Young, while i played Super Mario on my Gameboy. The flight passed quickly, we parted ways. ----- Phuket. Baggage Carosel. Taxi witht he architect. Hotel. The girls at the Black Crab are surprised to see me back and ...
Diving in Phuket
... hit the town. We soon got to see the real Pantong folks its disgusting sex sold like mad here on the street. We did a dive off the beach where the film "The Beach" was filmed I will post the photos so you can all see the scenery is class and the water ...