Surat Thani
Travel Blogs from Surat Thani, Thailand
Day 84: Roast Crickets & The Cargo Ship
... 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 ...
Day 88 Pt.2: Back to the Mainland
... I sadly don't remember what exactly my epiphanies were, but I'm sure they were profound. We docked at Frak Knows Where, Definitely Not Surat Thani on the mainland about two or three hours after leaving Ko Samui. Remember how I said the ferry seats were ...
Day 118
... 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 ...
10 Days of Silence, Meditation and Monastic life
In Western Culture we deal with emotion very reactively. When we are angry we count to ten, punch a pillow or seek Anger Management to learn how to control our anger. When we are sad or depressed we seek the shoulder of a friend or struggle to hide the ...
Free at last
... 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 ...
The many faces of Thailand
In the last 24 hours I have departed from my physical paradise in Tonsai, passed through a cultural paradise in Surat Thani and I am headed towards a spiritual paradise in Chaiya. I haven't posted in quite some time and as a result I have quite a bit to ...
The Last Ferry
... 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 ...
Waiting for the boat
... that 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 ...
Bus journeys. .
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 ...
Wow! where to start! first of all as you ...
... in stitches 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. ...
Lakes and Rafthouses!
Our power snorkelling instructor told us about a little place called Khao Sok National Park located just south of Surathani back on the mainland and from the pictures he showed us we thought it was definitely worth a look so we decided to by-pass the ...
Day 24 Thailand - Phuket - Surat Thani
... we were overcharged but we didn't want to stand in the rain or pay out for another night in the jungle. We then arrived at Surat Thani at a budget hotel and I mean budget, it was so basic and not the cleanest of hotels either, luckily we were only ...
Meditation Retreat
12 days at a monastery in southern Thailand. Perhaps it's not the typical thing to do when traveling to a foreign country but it's an experience that i feel everyone should have. This is a difficult blog to write so forgive me for jumping all over the ...
Hot and Steamy
... 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 ...
Snapping out of the doldrums – on the move!
... getting there from Koh Tao, I actually needed to leave today. This was at 9.24am – and the ferry I needed to take me to Surat Thani, on the mainland, left at 10am. At first I thought it was a no-hoper, but I jumped up and ran back to ...
Heading to the full moon party and the night boat!
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 ...
Ferries, Trains and Buses
... 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 ...
And we're off!
... I bumped into--surprise, surprise--McNeill! At that point, McNeill and I jumped onto a plane headed for Surat Thani, a small city south of Bangkok on Thailand's gulf (eastern) coast. A minivan van delivered us from the tiny airport to our hotel, where we ...
Day 10 - Night Train
... being used for low intensity agriculture was shocking to me. After three hours, we arrived at the company's bus depot near Surrant Thani which was way out of town. Most of the passengers transfered to other buses to go to other locations. I met some ...
Disaster strikes... again
... way we liked them. Very nice and all for £10 for two people in an air conditioned room with free wifi. I love Thailand. After breakfast there was more unpleasantness from Marcin’s anus behind closed doors which went on long enough to have claimed ...
On the Road Again
... 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 ...
A long wait...
I write this as I sit on Platform 1 of Surat Thani train station, awaiting our overnight sleeper train to Butterworth, Malaysia. After leaving Ko Samui at 11am, we arrived at the train station at 5pm…our train isn't due till 00:40 tomorrow morning ...
Train to Bangkok
14:24 I left Penang today after a quick morning walk to pick up my train ticket and get some cash out to pay my hotel bill. I got the bus to the ferry for a free crossing as a walk on passenger. Then walked up and down ramps and steps with my ball and ...
Nightmare bus journey!!
... 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. ...
Nullstilling.. ah
Hildur skrifar: Vid attum ahugavert 27 klst ferdalag fra Perhentian eyjunni okkar til Taelands. Byrjudum a ad taka bat fra eyjunni til meginlands Malasiu, tadan minibus til Kota Bharu. Komum a rutustod og enginn skildi okkur, vid vildum rutumida til ...
Goodbye Jum > Go Pha-Ngan!
... Italian restaurant called Viva that has the live program. We rested. Pan and I wanted to wait there for the next bus to Surat Thani. Heated Oven Bus Ride Finally, after 2 glasses of pineapple juice, our bus arrived. It only takes 2 ...
At gunpoint (by KCT)
... ;we sent to Lonely Planet and Footprint: *************************************************************** We (f 25, m 24) are currently traveling in Thailand and we had a shocking experience in Suratthani which you might want to consider in the next ...


