Surat Thani, Thailand Travel Blogs

... on its way to the mainland I felt not alone, but independent again. The ferry took another three and a half hours to get to the Surat Thani and I watched a couple of movies in the air-con VIP room. A huge woman with a huge hairdo sat in front of me and ...

A travel blog entry by poolman99
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... office in town. Well office was stretching it! It was a restaurant in the middle of nowhere. There is no other way to describe Surat Thani than shithole. Walking around trying to find a 7 Eleven (man I'm gonna miss these when I get back home) so I could ...

A travel blog entry by rbisset
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... he wanted to drop something in his mouth but it probably would have been a bit harsh. At 7pm we were back in "lovely" Surat Thani waiting for transport to the boat. After about 10 minutes I realised it was exactly the same place I had been in only a ...

A travel blog entry by rbisset
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... what I always do. Move on. And that's all I'm going to say about it. Now? I'm sitting here at the jetty in Surat Thani. We left Phuket at 7am this morning and endured a lovely assortment of bus company balls-ups which has meant us missing two ...

A travel blog entry by scottwoz
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Changed a bus here, went off behind the building to take a leak, and a huge piece of glass went right through my flip-flop. . Fortunately, something watches out for me, as I only punctured a 2 mm hole in my big toe, which I promptly cleansed and bandaged. ...

A travel blog entry by bloomer
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... and the worst toilet in Thailand on the train. not to mention the hardest beds in all of S. E. Asia in our 'Hotel' in Surat Thani last night. but i will get that another time, i am staring and we get the ferry in 1 hour to Ko Pangan. Hope you are ...

A travel blog entry by andyb
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... an hour in the landscape flattened and gave way to endless rice patties, and an hour later we pulled in to Surat Thani. Surat Thani is the eastern coast equivalent of Krabi, a coastal fishing town of pleasant but unremarkable order from which most ferries ...

... scooter taxis. A bit reluctant at first given the fact we were wearing packs, and our experiences with the other taxis in Thailand, but the drivers smelt our fear and were very considerate, getting us there in one piece. 10 days silent meditation at ...

... The bus ride was long. How long? Light years. Well it seemed like it. The bus left at 10 and with a change of bus, I arrive at Surat Thani at 8.30pm. As soon as I got off the bus a lady asked me where I was going, so I gave her the name of the ...

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Arrived in Surat Thani 2 hours late on the worlds slowest train! 2nd class sleeper, not one for the luxurious traveller, but it is quite cool how the whole thing turns into bunk beds for sleeping in, a hole in the ground overlooking the tracks doubled as ...

Well my f*cking flight was delayed by 2 hours so when we landed in Surat Thani the fast boat to Ko Phanang had already left. The touts were trying to round up tourists to go to Ko Samui and Ko Phanang via an 8hr night boat. I was going to try get a taxi to ...

... onto a rather dilapidated old bus and off to the ferry port for the final leg of out journey. Annoyingly, unlike most of Thailand the ferry service runs a rather more efficiently than the train. We arrived at the port to find we had missed our ferry by ...

... I headed to the travel agent to pick up my train ticket and then wait to be picked up to be taken to the Surrant Thani train station over 200 kilometers away. The transportation was late and it wasn't clear how I was getting there. Finally 45 minutes later ...

... it was nice and the scenery and landscape across the middle of the country was really interesting so the time went pure fast. got to surat thani and had 2 choice of getting to koh tao. 1. night boat leaving at 11pm and getting there at 5am 2. stay in ...

... us off at a random bus station in the middle of nowhere where we had to wait 4 hours for the next coach. We were not happy bunnies. Surat Thani was only a stop off for us, we stayed over night, to catch the boat the next morning to the islands.

Still moving South. I just arrived in this busy port, which is only of interest to most travelers as a jump-off point for the islands off the east coast. However, due to my lack of interest in going to the famous full moon rager in Koi Samui, I am using ...

... Je me mets dans le sleeping bag mode chenille active et c'est parti pour une bonne nuit de sommeil. J'arrive de bonne heure a Surat Thani. La bas, on nous depose dans une agence de voyage et on nous dit d'attendre plusieurs heures avant de repartir pour ...

What was I thinking??? Where do I start..... How can I put it into words the weird and wonderful time I had. We arrived at the center which was in the middle of the forest. Its a place called Wat Suanmok (Garden of Liberation) its founded be Ajahn ...

... that we've reached Surat Thani train station in one piece! The bus/ferry/bus combination was fine and we were dropped off in Surat Thani town a while ago. We caught a local bus and arrived here at about 6pm. We've been whiling away the time eating at ...

... 8 of us got ourselves together before agreeing to being taken to the local bus station where Paul and I took a 5 hour coach to Surat Thani. This was a difficult journey as we'd been on a train overnight and now an extremely hot and sweaty coach with only ...

... movies (American Pie for one) - also with badly translated sub-titles. The translations alone almost make it entertaining! We arrived in Surat Thani around 7.30pm and had to wait for a few hours for the night ferry to depart at 11.30. We put our ...

Surat Thani e' stata solo una tappa intermedia tra Khao Sok e le isole. Ci ho passato un giorno in giro con lo zaino ed e' stato divertente. Una coppia di tedeschi conosciuti in precedenza me l'aveva dipinta come piena di truffatori ma io sono stato ...

genug von abngkok...was? bangkok! jetzt gibts urwald, tödliche tiere, naturgewalten, abenteuer, überlebenskampf!

ein weiterer tag erfüllt mit todesverachtung.

... buses which meant travelling for 12 hours straight. Obviously we decided against that so chose to go to Bangkok instead staying over in Surat Thani. We booked the minibus to take us there and they showed up at our hostel in the early hours to pick us up. ...

April 14, 2005 Left Phuket after surviving Songkhran, a week-long national holiday celebrating the Thai new year, punctuated halfway through by a massive countrywide waterfight where no one, not even the police - their guns and walkie talkies wrapped in ...

Hi ihr da draussen die Entscheidung ist gefallen - ich habe mich auf den weg nach Koh Pha Ngan gemacht um am 24. februar ein teil der Full Moon pARTY Crowd zu werden. ist zwar sehr unguenstig der termin, weil ich schon am 27. in singapur sein muss ( ...