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Patong Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Patong, Thailand
Out of the Kok and into the Phu
This is a top pick! ... since they were toddlers. He's a surfer and has been all over the world beaching it up so when he said he'd bought a bar in Thailand I could only think there would be a beach nearby. Good thing for me. I like a swim at the beach as much as the next ...
Sin City in Thailand
This is a top pick! ... arm with them seem to be completely content. If Vegas is the Sin City of the US, then Pa Tong is the Sin City of Thailand. Huge crowds of tourists flood the streets all through-out the day, loud music and flashing lights pollute the space. Not one step ...
The Names Bond...Leornardo Bond
This is a top pick! ... to the town centre (needed the exercise) and find a sawngethaw (truck come bus thing) and pay 15 bhat (thats 20p) to get to Patong, as the heavens open. Only one other westerner on the bus, and neither of us knew when to get off! I'd gambled a bit on ...
Canoeing through Ao Phang-Nga
This is a top pick! ... sleep, I arose at 7am for an experience that I have looked forward to for years - one of which you see in tourist brochures of Thailand. After being picked up at 8am, the mini bus took me and a group of very social over 55s to Ao Poh jetty. A fairly ...
Don't hold your breath!
This is a top pick! Phew, no rest for the wicked! After completing our Day Skipper course on Friday 1 July, we caught the ferry straight back to the backpacker isle of Phi Phi, where we planned to do an open water scuba course. We'd barely settled into our bay-view bungalow ...
Chapter 29: Andaman Adventures
This is a top pick! ... but uneventful aside from a few eels. Today I took another ferry to Phuket Island, and then hopped on a minibus to Patong, which is one of Thailand's most-developed tourist tra-... I mean, beaches. As such, and because it's high season here, too, ...
The Highs and Lows of Life
This is a top pick! ... completely wrecked as Nat and I discovered snorkling later at another island. Later in the week we went to favourite place in Thailand so far, Ao Phang Nga... a bay full of limestone mountains, with crystal clear water and hidden caves. We spent the ...
Finding Bangtao
This is a top pick! ... Project' had been set up to directly particiapte in the recovery of the Bang Tao community which lies just north of PAtong and 10 miles south of Phuket airport. The village has approximately 100 local families and 50 small and medium sized businesses and ...
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 ...
Transit to Phuket
This is a top pick! To Phuket via Bangkok Airport. Arrived late at 9 pm. Jenn very very sick. Scott not sick, putting up with Jenn. Poor ...
Koh Phi Phi Diving
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from Koh Phi Phi in our entry from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia entitled 'Travel Rehab!'. Cheers, K & ...
A Taste of Mexico in Thailand
This is a top pick! ... had the thing for over two weeks and I can't take it back... I love the thing. I will need to go on a border run soon. Thailand only gives me 30 days at a time in my passport so I need to renew by the 18th. This is easily done in a day ...
Strippers, Prostitutes and Ping Pong
This is a top pick! ... of taken only 3 - what a nightmare! We should have guessed that this was the beginning of our run of bad luck in Thailand. Lucky for us we had booked ourselves into another nice hotel thanks to my birthday money from Hollie’s Mum and Dad - after a ...
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 ...
Nutty Phuket
This is a top pick! ... ya goin'? G'day mate!" Speaking of cultural etiquette, here's a little anecdote on how not to be a moron. In Thailand the King is highly revered and the people really love and respect him. Also it is considered rude in Thailand to ...
Re-Unions
This is a top pick! ... to meet up later on. We went for a walk in Patong, where we were now based. It did not seem like we were in Thailand. There were lights, bars and restaurants everywhere. In fact, it seemed like a sleazier version of Goa, and that we did not enjoy. So ...
The Beach
This is a top pick! ... always pictured this amazing island located in the Andaman Sea off the coast of Phuket. In the movie Leonardo DiCaprio travels to Thailand and is given a secret map, which he decides to follow along with some new friends. They leave Bangkok in search of ...
12 Hours by Boat and Bus to Phuket
This is a top pick! it was an early start to be yanked out of bed...first it was a ferry crossing to Satun in Thailand then to the bus station in the back of a pick up truck. Then onto a bus and off on the road to Phuket. The bus was oversubscribed so some people were ...
WARNING! THIS ENTRY MAY SHOCK AND OFFEND!
This is a top pick! ... ...it's also expensive and not the real Thailand at all, it has none of the charm of Chiang Mai, the only other place I've been in Thailand, and it isn't the sort of place I'd typically go on holiday to, but it IS different and I suppose that is the ...
Halloween Ladyboys of Patong
This is a top pick! ... we returned to rest for tonight we would be night owls. 23:00 This evening we went to the gay/ladyboy area in Patong and as it's Halloween we thought it might be even more glammed up. It was indeed. We saw lots of performances by ladyboys miming ...
Bond girl for a day. A soggy one at that.
This is a top pick! For the first time ever, my stomach is a bit gripey today, not sure if it was spicy food or the hideous cocktail of random drinks I had last night. Hmmm. Either way, I won't be eating much today. Scott was feeling a bit the same and as a result we caused ...
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! ... far as Patong. So we spotted a bus and flagged it down. It was going to Kamala beach, which is about halfway to Patong. It was a bigger village so we looked around for some necessities. I was able to find a place to get my hair ...
Phuket, Thailand
... (50's) white Europeans. It literally felt like everyone was a tourist when you walked on the beach or in the streets. Thailand is definitely not as cheap as I thought especially in those touristy spots and the locals quickly realized what their target ...
diving in Phi Phi
Feb 12th (Jamie writing) Today we got up early to go diving. It was our second day of training and our first 2 open water dives. We went to 2 smaller islands located just off Phi Phi lae. Bida Nok, Bida Nai is a limestone cliff islet with similar ...
St Patrick's day with a twist
Day 36 - We woke around 11 and headed over to our room to see if the problem had been fixed, it had and we put on some sun cream and then headed down to the beach. Phuket is not the classiest of places we have been to so far and reminds me of a typical ...
Off the Rails in Phuket!
... It was good fun though, a clear night but with a thunder and lightning storm on the horizon as we touched down into Phuket Island, Thailand. Neither of us were quite ready for the onslaught that we faced when we cleared customs. As soon as we were in the ...
Day 36 Ko Tao - Patong
... , Ko Tao and diving which mad me very sad :( But no need to feel sorry for me for I am off to the other side of Thailand! Now this journey will take 12 hours which will be made up with taxi rides, buses and boats. When arriving at our hotel we were ...
James Bond Island and Phang Nga Bay Tour
... to go for a walk through Karon (the next town over from Patong and where we were staying). Karon is much quieter than Patong but still busy enough, there was a little festival on so we walked through and visited a number of markets and shops before ...
Shopping shopping shopping!!!!
... ordered a water instead. Haha!! After coffee we caught a tuk tuk to the main shopping centre in Patong, they were holding auditions for "Thailand's got talent" and "Thailand Idol" on the outside of the shopping mall. Unfortunately nothing opened until ...