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Travel Blogs from Surin, Thailand
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Border Bollix
This is a top pick! ... the fields as you would expect to see some sheep or cows back home. We arrived at the Kap Choeng - Chom Som border south of Surin in the late afternoon with me again only just woken up (eyeing all monks with suspicion from now on) as I realized I had ...
Ko Chang and Surin
This is a top pick! ... I think the ice-cream seller may be back tonight though as he definitely thought he was onto a good thing!! Tomorrow we head back to Bangkok on the day train for a couple of days before we leave Thailand ready for the next ...
Similan and Surin Islands
This is a top pick! Similan and Surin Islands Live aboard 31st to 2nd February 2009 Day 1 At about 7.45 we are collected from Amsterdam Resort and taken to the Wicked Diving dive shop. There we gather as a group of 12 and are then transferred to the harbour at Koh Lak. ...
June 10 2008
This is a top pick! ... going to come out at all today. So we walked back to our hotel, and maybe if the sun came out we would just go to Surin Beach. I wasn't feeling that great, and the sun never came out, so we stayed in the room most of the day. We checked ...
Paradise on earth!
This is a top pick! ... off the coast and seeing manta rays and reef sharks! We thought we should find out for ourselves... The Surin Islands are located on the east coast of Thailand and was the first place that we went to to have been hit by the Tsunami therefore visitor ...
June 9 2008
This is a top pick! ... peak out and it turned out to be a really nice day. It was very relaxing and we decided we would stay another night at Surin Beach. Around 3pm we decided to come back to the hotel, we were pretty tired from all the sun. We got ready for ...
June 8 2008
This is a top pick! ... Then they give you the "gas is so expensive" speech. Since the weather was not the greatest, we decided to head back to Surin beach. We waited for a bus and it took forever to come. Finally it arrived and we hopped on. We rode ...
June 7 2008
This is a top pick! ... driver. We had another guy flag us down and we told him where we wanted to go, he had a chart of costs, 400THB for Surin. So we agreed and hopped in the tuk-tuk. The driver went pretty fast and after about 30 mins we arrived at our ...
So I weakened...
So I decided to commission my very first Classic Thai Scooter. I have just bought a Honda C70 cub who's original colour dates it to circa 1970/1971. It is in a pretty poor state of dis-repair. The good news is, that incuded in the purchase price is ...
Poignard
Nous sommes dans la province de Surin et dans la ville de Surin ... Nous parlerons donc de l'éléphant d'asie, de l'ondinisme (ou urolagnie) est une paraphilie caractérisée par une forte excitation érotique éprouvée en buvant (ou faisant boire), ...
Hat Surin Continued
So another full day in Hat Surin. This time we decided to be a lil more 'full on' touristy here, as our sunburns have subsided and we had some chill out time. Strolled to the beach and got a massage - it is a fixed price at Hat Surin, 300 baht ...
Last night in Thailand (hopefully)
We have come to the end of our random ordered trip around Thailand (if everything tomorrow goes to plan!). We are staying the night in a town called Surin, on the way to the Cambodian border. Anyway, Khao Yai National Park was pretty good, although we ...
The Surin Elephant round up
Every year Surin holds an elephant round-up, it is fantastic to see so many elephants all in the one place, must have been over 300 elephants in total. After the main show the streets were packed with elephants walking up and down the main street of the ...
Summer English Camp
... driver and they tell him where to take me. It's a good system. Next weekend I am going to Khorat which is the gateway to the Issan (or Essan) area of Thailand, the northeast corner. Much more remote than around here. If that's possible. ...
Surin Beach: Touristy Beyond Belief
... type of interesting action C. In it for the booze and night time hoz D. Have absolutely no interest in Thailand itself then perhaps you will like Hat Surin. To be fair, Surin beach IS lovely. I guess the biggest problem this place has are drownings. ...
hazy recounting and ass kicking chickens
... and was quite boozy by the time dinner came round. Dinner was ok, we met all the other peeps volunteering in various things in Thailand, and I met Jack and Sarah who would be working with me on the Elephant park project and who struck me instantly as the ...
back to phuket before flying to Bangkok
Left the island of phi phi don today by boat to Phuket hoping to spend one more day on a hot sunny beach before we fly to Bangkok. The ferry tickets all turned out to be quite a mess up after I booked them online. When getting off the boat we was ...
Surin Islands
... by the tsunami in 2004). The reason to travel here was the opportunity to do a live aboard dive trip to the Surin and Similan Islands, which are about 60-80km of shore, and world renowned for their diving. Luckily I turned up and found a ...
Seriously, tell your friends
... detailed tortures for the rat bastard in order to keep my mind off the fact that I am in a seedy train station in Thailand, and apparently I am the equivalent of Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Alba's lovechild to the gay community over here. As I drop ...
Cowboys and Whiskey
... Sweden and David from the US who spoke fluent Thai. (This always comes in handy.) Matt's advice with regards to teaching in Thailand was don't expect students to pay attention and don't lose your temper. Nice one. we shall see... I rang Yaowapa, the ...
Surin
... to the south. Next time I come here, I hope to go and see them as a precursor to Angkor. Just a note for anyone in Thailand looking to head to Cambodia, I met Lucy (farang! farang!)(the Rough Guide writer for Thailand) who told me that the Cambodian ...
There is retro, and then there's RETRO!
So, here I am having created a nice little motorcycle. Its fast, safe, fun and looks kinda pretty now in chrome and Orange. So why do I have a hankering stillf ro something older? Must be all these 30 year old Honda Cubs I keep seeing dotted about. What ...
Surin, Thailand
January 05 2009 - Surin, Thailand So all the major portions of the trip are done by this point. We only went to Surin because for time and monetary purposes we couldn’t make it to the Bolaven Plateau in Laos. But that doesn’t mean it ...
Let's have dinner and a bath
... I am sleepy. It's 8 pm. I realize that the massive teak bench I am sitting on is to be my bed. These benches are all over Thailand and I'd give anything to send one home - the wood is beautiful and the seat part is easily 3 feet wide. If you sit back ...
The Wedding
Hurro again! We're in Phuket... whoo hoo! Well, we've been having an awesome time, catching up with old friends, well, for Luke, meeting them for the first time! We had been staying in a place called the Capri Inn, which was bedbug free!(500 baht a ...
still diving
one of the best dive sites. we almost.................. hit a grand slam. in a bridge game a grand slam is to win every trick in a game and in baseball its a home run when the bases are loaded. in either case it is extremely rare and ...
Look Kids Big Ben.
DAY 5 THURSDAY, JANUARY 27TH Ah, the pre-dawn wake-up... somehow it seems slightly more acceptable on a boat but it's certainly not easy. The early start would get us into the Surins, 50 miles or so to the northwest, before dark. It was another ...
Review: Catch Restaurant
We decided to nom based on the recommendation of the Lonely Planet: Thailand's Beaches and Islands book that we have been consistently referencing. The nom place in question is called "Catch", which is the TRENDY beachside restaurant for the Twin Palms ...
Heading East
... nicknames. We hung out with Uncle and his wife for a bit and had some conversation with aunt about life in Canada and Thailand. Then we went to the restaurat and Cindy and her cousin made us a spectacular meal with about 6-7 different things to ...
Xpress Status on Asia Air FTW
... ever attend. It's one of those lights/ vegas-y type of things with about 50 elephants. Finally arrived at Benyada Lodge in Surin Beach. I will post a seperate one just for the hotel, as travepod seems to be intent on allowing others to see feedback on ...
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