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Surat Thani Slideshow
Surat Thani
Travel Blogs from Surat Thani, Thailand
A real Thai town with few foreigners
... for a minibus ride from the airport to town of Surat Thani. We then found hotel we had previously stayed at in Surat Thani close to the bus station in Thai Rungraun Hotel. We paid 500 baht for a double air-conditioned room and Scotty ...
Storm!
I'm still alive and in one piece! And better yet, my camera hasn't been soaked and still works! No thanks to the weather, though... Today we took a day trip to Ang Thong National Park. The park is around an hour by speed boat from ...
My Fullmmon's experience at Phangan Island!
Full moon on Phangan Island My most impressive thing on this Phangan trip is the heart of local people there. They are so kind, sincere and friendly. The granma who sells roti ( banana pancake with condensed milk and chocolate) at Thongsala market was ...
"Trigger" from one life to the next
The last time I had taken 2 weeks away before I decided to go to Thailand was in February 2007 (5 years ago), along all these years I had just figured that I didn't really need holiday, that long week-ends or short getaways were enough, I wasn't the ...
Jungle day 2 and the National park
With an early morning start we jumped into anothe truck to take us to the national park... what a day After an hour of bumping around in the back of a truck we arrived at a large dam and lake. 40 minutes in a long tailed boat we were all thrown out ...
The Great Elephant Adventure
... with a Biblical flood. After some swimming, we got dressed and boarded a bus to Khao Sok. It is one of the four national parks in Thailand and is on the mainland, so a two hour drive from our hotel. I promptly fell asleep. When we got to the park, the ...
Overnattings-stopp i Surat Thani
... er veldig greit! Rent og fint - til en god pris! Aircondition har vi vel funnet ut er en absolutt nødvendighet i denne varmen. Surat Thani er muligens det varmeste stedet vi har vært hittil! På kvelden tok vi en rusletur ut - men av en ...
A Jungle better than Disneyland
After enjoying two long train rides south from Chiang Mai all the way to Surat Thani, I hopped on a bus the next morning to Khao Sok. Thus, I parted ways with my lovely travel companions, Danny and Christina, two people who I am glad my path ...
An Extraordinary Lent
... I miss something? 8/40: road safety conscious elephants walking down the street with flashing bicycle lights attached to their tail. Very responsible. 9/10: Good weather in Ireland on St Patricks Day. Rainy and cold here in Thailand. The world has ...
Travel to Bangkok
... groggy today after one too many Singhas last night. Bag packed and it's a taxi to Phuket town where I have a bus to catch to Surat Thani. Unfortunately I don't have time to explore the old town so it's straight onto a bus and off for a four hour trip. ...
3 Nights In Bangkok
... where I found a cheap dinner. I made friends with a Finnish guy named Petri (aka Pete) at my gym in Surat Thani. Petri had moved to Thailand at the age of 18, and had been living in Thailand for 7 years (spending 6 of those living in ...
Trainride from HELL
... 3 hours on the ferry, then another hour via buses to the actual trainstation which is actually in a town just outside of Surat Thani. Nothing much special about this journey, just a lot of sitting. After having lunch near the trainstation I meandered ...
Southern Thai Islands
We got the 8am train down from Bangkok's Hualampong station to Surat Thani in Southern Thailand. The train didn't actually leave until about 10am, so we arrived around 7pm. We blew off a tout at the station who was trying to take us to Ban Don ...
Khao Sok N.P. (or as Gary likes call it, Khao Suk)
... covering pretty much all types of transportation; a taxi from our guesthouse to the ferry terminal, ferry to Don Sak pier, bus to Surat Thani train station, minibus (that took over an hour to arrive, very annoying) to the main junction road near Khao Sok, ...
Singha Beer
... the same questions. "Where you from? What is your name?" So we told him we were from England. "Aaaah England, Thailand... Switzerland, New Zealand, Poland, Iceland... aaahh hahahaha." Pretty much any nation he could think of which ended with "land" he ...
Khao Sok National Park, Thailand and Photos
Second day in the jungle and we went to Rajjaprapa Lake which is surrounded by limestone mountains - very dramatic and ...
We have a house!
... post photos as soon as we can upload our pics. We found a house, so we have an address again, yay! We arrived back in Surat today and another teacher helped us to find it. We move in next Monday, but until then we're going to take off South ...
heading inland
... I dont forget it all by the time we get home!Tomorrow we are going to Khao Sok national Park, one of the biggest in Thailand, it has tigers, snakes scorpions and so on so feel a little nervous but it is apparantly very beautiful.After that we meet up ...
Thieves of the seas
... which mode of transport you were using at the time. But because the travel agency messed up; I was given back my luggage in Surat Thani where I had two hours to ponder and managed to pinpoint it down to just two destinations; either on the boat or on the ...
Overnight at a Floating Village
... I felt safer with it on. Even in the misty weather we could soon see the magnificent limestone peaks that form the watershed of Southern Thailand. As they are so enormous as seen from the lake formed by the dam it is hard to imagine how big they must have ...
Tescoooooooo!!
... your outlook on some countries! In the end Phil chatted to him about stopping somewhere earlier and he said that there was a hospital in Surat Thani which was just about 30 minutes away. He took our tickets and said he'd try to sort something out for us. ...
Khao Sok National Park, Thailand and Photo update
When our train arrived near the National Park we transferred to a songthaew which is a small open pickup truck with bench seating down both sides and a metal canopy to keep the sun off - talk about going native - but actually it was fine with four of us ...
We didnt crash - we are on Samui now!!!!!!
... got us in at 6.30pm and gave us half an hour to get across a gridlocked Bangkok to catch the 7.30pm night train to Surat Thani. Thankfully we got a psycho madman taxi driver who flew across the city at 100mph and got us there with minutes to ...
Khao Sok national park
We arrived early in the morning at Surat Thani on the overnight train. We jumped off and ate breakfast at the train stop before jumping on a ute and driving for a few hours to Khao Sok National Park. We arrived at Khao Sok Rainforest resort closeish to ...
Away from the sand and into the city...
... Luckily travel back was much smoother than travel there. We asked a posh looking hotel to look after our backpacks and ambled around Surat Thani for a bit (Not another Westerner in sight :D ) Our sun burn has healed but we are still plagued by mosquito ...