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Takua Pa Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Takua Pa, Thailand
On the Water
This is a top pick! After the taxi ride to the dam and getting rejected from buying some rum and not knowing why (found out they don't serve before 11am) we're finally on the 1 hour boat journey to our raft house. Seems like a good bunch of people with us, another English ...
Wish it was Krabi
This is a top pick! ... pretty boring as well so we played alot of pool! Pretty gutted that we couldn't get down to Krabi, but we had to be out of Thailand in 4 days so there was no point. We had a good bed, with our first proper quilt! Nice and comfy we decided to stay there ...
Hiking, Jungle, Blisters.
This is a top pick! Well Island tour over now its time to head inland, to whats meant to be the oldest rainforest in the world. Khao Sok National Park, we got the ferry all ok then our connecting bus inland, we had to change over after about an hour. We stopped at ...
Back to school
This is a top pick! ... my practice dives in the sea. Tonight we're off on a 4 day diving boat trip to the Similan Islands (on the west coast of Thailand about 200km north of Phuket) which are said to be one of the top 10 diving locations in the world. Once there I'll be ...
11 hrs + 5 punctures = 108 tough miles
This is a top pick! ... Phuket on Tuesday. Some very friendly kittens got involved with the bikes before we left and seemed quite keen to accompany us to Takua Pa. They were the first of several cute animals which made friends with us today. After a mile I started winging that ...
Jungle adventures
We stopped off for a few days in this jungle paradise and it turned out to be one of the trip highlights so far. This national park has it all - rainforest, azure blue lake waters, karst mountain background and wonderful wildlife. We had two days ...
Day 11
Day 11 --------- We were woken up at 6am by a loud and bizaare noise. I can't even really describe it (listen to the video!). Sort of a cross between an owl hooting and a person trying to do a bad ghost impression! We later found that ...
Finding Nemo
Made it to Khoa Lak its a very peaceful place but very devastated by the Tsunami. Most of the guesthouses have only been up and running for only 3 or 4 months now, very sad, and almost everyone there lost someone they loved. But on a happier note it ...
Khao Sok National Park
Khao Sok National Park was a holiday within a holiday. I'm staying in a simple dwelling. A bamboo shack alongside the Cheow Lan lake, with a backdrop of magnificent limestone karsts. The Baan Khao Sok Resort as it is called, (however, the word 'Resort' ...
Waterfalls, Monkeys, and Leeches in the Natl. Park
The bus was rickety and Aaron sat in the back getting a lesson on Thai from a man with two thumbs on one hand. From the town, we sat in the taxi (the back of a pickup truck) breathing fumes until we reached Khao Sok National Park. Our treehouse ...
Khao Lak, Thailand
Barnaby and his companions caught the boat back to Phuket. On the boat he made friends with some Canadian travellers and offered to take them to Phuket airport. They then drove North to Khao Lak. ...
Khao Sok
... Our server for the evening was a very colorful ladyboy with a flare for entertaining. There are a suprising amount of ladyboys in Thailand, people are obviously very gay friendly here. In fact, you'd find it difficult to find a waiter who ...
Sawadee
... guy, an incredible young mother travelling with her 18th son and her 3 little girls (from 3 to 8 years old) for 6months in Thailand, and 2 friends of hers (mother and daughter) visiting her for Christmas. On our way, we stopped in a local market to buy ...
Legehuse på 80 meter dyb sø midt i junglen
... i regntiden.. Man skal selv tage ansvar for sin sikkerhed og vurdere, hvad man vil gå med til, når man er p'' oplevelsestur i Thailand - det kan vi godt konkludere efterhånden. Anyway, vi hyggede os rigtig meget om aftenen, og vi fik supergod ...
Khao Sak Nation Park, Raft Houses and Tree Houses
... the area flooded. The raft houses were built next to what was the mountain tops but were now islands. As with most things in Thailand these huts were made of bamboo and plastic drums were used to keep them afloat. We couldn't bring our main backpacks ...
Deep in the jungle
... we spent a day travelling on quite a few random methods of transport. We took the express boat to Surat Thani. Though apparently in thailand Express means they take you halfway and then you have to jump on another boat the rest of the way. Stupidly we ...
......we all have our limits......
... could get in so I wasn’t too worried about it, and because we hadn’t seen any scary things anywhere in Thailand, I wasn’t worried about that either. Until…4:45 a.m., I woke up out of a fairly sound sleep in excruciating pain ...
Merry Christmas to U all!!!
Everyone came back to the village and stayed in the same place. It was Christmas eve and we had our Christmas dinner with the Dutch guy. That night we missed a lot our family and we wished we could join them on the dinner table. We dreamed about codfish ...
On the Beach - Khao Lak and Koh Pra Tong
... great experience of seeing a colleague of mine from work (Pattie) on the island. Though there are multitudes of islands around Thailand that people typically go to for vacation, Koh Pra Tong is definitely not one of them. What an incredible coincidence ...
Nightmare in Khao Sok
Khao Sok.. I woke up bright and early at 5:45am to grab a couple grilled ham and cheese sandwiches, coffees, juice and water from 7-11 so that we would be all prepared for our bus to pick us up from the hotel in Koh Samui between ...
How 2 nights became 2 weeks...
... many others and decided once again that I had been given good advice. The room was palacial as far as Thailand goes, and after a wander through the hostel I found crazy life - of the good variety! The mechanics of arrivals and meetings ...
Day 9
... Khao Sok. What an amazing place Khao Sok national park is! We could have spent all our time here I think. It's Thailand's Yosemite. Via thousands of years, the pointy mountains formed from limestone deposit were then washed away by rain and ...
Day Hike...more leeches!
... since the poop incident.) We did have confirmed for us a theory we had been brewing that compared Khao Sok to Hawaii. Thailand is, so far, the most "western" of the countries we've seen. This means we have observed less pleasantry and ...
...and I am whole again!!
My mom used to tell me that the 20-hours of pain she endured while giving natural birth to me all but disappeared the moment she laid her eyes on me. That was pretty much what I experienced today, when I arrived at the beach of Khao Lak after a ...
Koh Tao...DIVE TIME!
... excited about a week of water activity, AND being advanced by the time i leave....hopefully! The place is gorgeous and i think Thailand is one of the cheapest places to learn to dive, so although it is not cheap, it is "cheap" in comparison to ...
...Calm before the storm....
... - even more so than our inherited black Cadillac! BUT...it was very comfortable, air-conditioned...and most importantly...traveling through Thailand...so all was well! We headed south from the border town of Ranong down to the town of Kuraburi where we ...
On my way back in the ocean :-D
... room in Indonesia when I hit the islands to go diving will cost me $30/night on average. That's almost 4x what I've spent in Thailand and Laos, where I spent $7-8/night for a dorm! Even as I spent just 3 days in Khao Lak, which is a beach town, I ...
Into the jungle
The bus journey took about 15 hours overnight, it's quite well known that your valuables aren't safe on this route and the thieving buggers that work on the bus rifle through your bags whilst your are asleep. I was convinced they had pumped some ...
Project 330, Week 10
Ten weeks of amazing mind-boggling times! 17/1/12 – Hello Koh Phi Phi! Truly home to some of the world's most impressive beaches, we had just arrived from Koh Lanta and a located a quaint bungalow to stay in for the duration. Remarkable ...