Surat Thani, Thailand Travel Blogs

Day 84: Roast Crickets & The Cargo Ship
Aug 14, 2008 (3 photos)

... 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 ...

Day 88 Pt.2: Back to the Mainland
Aug 18, 2008 (5 photos)

... 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
Jan 10, 2007

... 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 ...

Free at last
Jan 2, 2006 (2 photos)

... 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 ...

Val-deri,Val-dera... my knapsack on my back
Jul 31, 2005

Waiting for the boat
Jan 8, 2006 (2 photos)

... 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 ...

The Last Ferry
Jul 17, 2008 (36 photos)

... 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 ...

Bus journeys. .
Sep 2, 2006

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. ...

transit
Jun 1, 2007

  

Wow! where to start! first of all as you ...
Mar 25, 2002

... 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 ...

Ferry terminal for Koh's in the Gulf of Thailand
Apr 12, 2006 (4 photos)

Lakes and Rafthouses!
Feb 21, 2005 (4 photos)

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 ...

31 Jan - Chaiya - Suan Mokk International Meditati
Feb 11, 2008 (6 photos)

... nbsp; 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 ...

Meditation Retreat
Sep 11, 2009 (12 photos)

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
Apr 16, 2009 (5 photos)

... photos of them as I wasn't sure how they would react to that. I went straight to the train station to buy a ticket to Surat Thani from where I can get to Khao Sok.  There was no train that day due to the holiday.  Bugger!  So I ...

Thailand Tour
Jun 4, 2009 (21 photos)

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 ...

Heading to the full moon party and the night boat!
Sep 5, 2006

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 ...

Ferries, Trains and Buses
Oct 19, 2008

... 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 ...

Day 10 - Night Train
Jan 20, 2008 (5 photos)

... 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 ...

On the Road Again
Apr 22, 2008

... 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 ...

Nightmare bus journey!!
Dec 10, 2006

... 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
Sep 10, 2009

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!
Mar 31, 2009 (11 photos)

... 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 hours ...

Junglist massif
Jun 6, 2008

... have to go. we are going to go back to koh pangan because the weather there is alot better than on the other side of thailand where its raining. we've been lucky with the weather today but apparently it rained alot yesterday and the day before here. peace

The road to Koh Tao
May 20, 2006 (5 photos)

... all to ourselves. I hung out with my new travelling family for like 10 days and did a lot of scuba diving, hiking and chilling. I told you guys in the email about the dogs but they live the best life out of anybody in thailand. Party dog is all i'll say.

Goin' to the Beach
Apr 29, 2007 (2 photos)

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 ...

Sleeping in treehouses
Jan 28, 2007 (3 photos)

After an early start catching the ferry back to the mainland we headed to the Big C supermarket, a very thai supermarket for lunch.  Before catching songtoews to Koh Sok National Park, our home for the next night.  We are staying in tree top ...

Surat Thani Bus Stop
Mar 12, 2007

Bus Stop Off

Jungle Adventures
Jan 5, 2006 (6 photos)

... of acheivement to reach the bottom of the waterfall, which was our goal. On the way saw the famous Raffelesia flower- biggest in Thailand or the world- depending on who you speak to- a bizarre looking thing which blooms for only 2- 5 days every few years. ...

Phuket pour Koh Phi Phi
Jul 14, 2008 (5 photos)

... 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 ...