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Patong Slideshow
Patong
Travel Blogs from Patong, Thailand
Absolute Carnage In Phuket!!
Picking up form where we left off, we flew to phuket......only 2 hours flight, we were anticipatin phuket to be a bit lively but when we got there we didnt quite realise how nuts the next 4 days were guna be!! hotel was pretty nice, nicer than we had ...
'James Bond Island'
... very hard although once we had crossed over the mountain it had stopped. We drove north across the island and onto mainland Thailand (I never knew that Phuket was close to the mainland and that you crossed a bridge to get from one to the ...
I want nobody nobody but you
... to the room at 4.30am bitter and down. But Bohdy will find his way. Today we leave back on the boat to Phuket and Patong. We will then fill up one whole day tomorrow before leaving on Wednesday to Koh Samoi. That will probably be like this place and ...
tsunami war zone
so i headed to phuket as my first destination in thailand. met up w a friend there for 2 days - very brief bc phuket is NOT my scene. but i was very lucky to meet this guy Cyrus who is 62 years old and was there when the tsunami hit. he was there w his ...
Wrong wrong Patong
... in chilled-out Phuket town. We didn’t get much sunshine while we were here so didn’t miss out by not staying at the beaches. It actually rained badly some of the time and we got soaked – not what we were really expecting from ...
The Odyssey Begins
Its Begun! 1 day 3 countries, glad to finally get to the accommodation on Phukets' Karon beach. Flight over was great, we both managed to get a row of 3 seats to ourselves so we could stretch out and sleep no worries - when traveling long distances on ...
Found Al's dream job - mahoot!
Up early for brekkie for 7.30am pick-up. We're not late but waiting for us when we get there. Must be first pick-up. In a minivan to a big servo out behind Surin. Get move t another van. 28 people on trip so three vans in ...
Bloody gorgeous - Phang Nga Bay
Get woken up twice during morning with text messages then wake-up call at 6.20. Argh! Oh well. Actually waiting when shuttle arrives. Yeh! Pick up three Thais at Central hotel at back of Karon and then into a big gated housing ...
Who knew lizards had big wangas?
Don't go down to breakfast until 10. Were going to sit down on the beach but too hot and easier to sit by the pool. Two lizards go at it right under my chair. We’re transfixed. Who would have thought a lizard would have such a ...
Koh Lanta.... ahh...
Our second night in Phuket- we moved to Patong Beach and stayed in the Thai Oriental Inn... which was good and cheap but five flights of steps high.... the beach was so touristy, but still beautiful and it was amazing to recognise the major tsuanmi ...
fawlty towers
The next morning we were up early, to leave the island of Koh Samui, and travel to Phuket. The journey was going to be a long one, involving a coach, a ferry, then another coach. And as I was as rough as a rhino's dick, it wasn’t going to be a good ...
white water Rafting
Hey Today we went white water rafting. The river was at Phangnga national park so we had to drive off Phuket island again. For the trip you couldn’t just do the rafting you had to go to a monkey show and an elephant show and go to the fish ...
Phuket here we come, eller, what´s the fuzz about?
... kostade bara 25 baht per person! Vi rullade upp för berget på centrala Phuket-halvön för att sedan rulla ner för andra sidan och hamna i Patong beach där vi skulle bo. Vi hade inte riktigt fått kläm på var i Patong vi skulle bo, så efter ett ...
Sick in phuket
... become accustomed to... its chinese new year so for one night thats the only place we could find... so by the time we got to patong we were stopped at this place so that the bus could find the address of where he was dropping everyone i had to run ...
Day 3 in Patong
After such a big day yesterday we had a cruisy morning. Went for a massage and a massive walk along the beach past all the shops. Lots of hawkers trying to sell us stuff. Passed a school where the kids were out playing and the tourist police were having ...
Day 2 in Patong
In the morning decided to check in at another hotel as first one was not so good. Ended up getting completely lost in the heat with all our luggage. Finally found where we were going then got picked up and taken to at the hill adventures where we ...
Real Vacation
Things have been on the up since my last post. Spent most of Sunday recovering from my hangover, but I did man up for another good night out. Went with a French guy who checked into my hotel that evening. We grabbed some food with another friend before ...
Heaven on earth
Woke up at 3am cos my body clock is saying "it's 6, get up"! Strangely enough it’s still dark outside so go back to sleep and wake at 5.30 just as dawn breaks. Open curtains and there’s a canal below us and a klong beside us. ...
great little guesthouse
stayed at the lanna thai guesthouse patong beach in July what a little gem of a place, great food, nice clean rooms lovely friendly staff, good location close to nightlife and beach great parts there!!!! just nothing was to much trouble great little team ...
Here and hung over...
... next 21 days they'll send it to me... I about flipped but whatever. I grabbed a cab from the airport which took me to Patong, about 45 minutes away. I gave the cabbie the address, but he couldn't find my hotel. We drove up and down the same strip about ...
The Interepid Taxi Driver
... raining nearly every minute that we were there (the sun only came out to stay for Saturday). We stayed in a little hostel near Patong beach (the major one), went out for dinner and a couple of drinks, and walked around that area. The next morning, since ...
Ævintýraeyjan
... ' færðum okkur hérna yfir til Patong sem er frábær strandbær hérna. Enn þið getið séð vespudaginn á videoi fljótlega. Patong er algjör party bær og hér yðar allt af lífi 24/7. Get ekki ímyndað mér hvað eru margir skemmtistaðir og ...
Day 8 - Hey isn't that Fez from that 70's show??
... of bursting. Interesting to note that Steph had bacon, yet Andrew could not find bacon... does Steph have a bacon hook up in Thailand?? We then arranged tickets for the muay thai fights we went to tonight. This involved us getting a ride to the stadium, ...
patong
well nice beach! very much a holiday destination I would say as solider to a backpackers haven but good food and live music in a few places which were good I just didn't really feel the place myself the guest hose was good tho very clean and pretty ...
Chill'n
Had a sleep in today and just chill'n (thus finally updating travelpod) we are staying another night in Patong and travelling tomorrow. Me and Leigh have vowed not to touch a drop of alcohol until Bangkok. ...
Thailand-Koh Samui!!!!!
Oh my God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a week, constant party...........Beautiful beaches, beautiful people, fantastic Sangsom (our new drink in a bucket) and just what an awesome place to see the sun rise 3 times and ...
Thailand-Krabi
Visited Krabi for the day, went to see a waterfall and then another temple which i stupidly climbed 1268 steps to see, (Rach was sensible and waited for me at the bottom).............. Not very impressed with the Island, glad we just went for ...
um, ni hau...?
right so, im in thailand now. omg!!! culture shock to the extreme! but first, let me catch you all up to speed. my last few weeks in NZ flew by. i went to invercargil and bluff, went swimming in the ocean down there, had bluff oysters etc. i went to ...
all you ever hear is ping pong, TUK TUK?
28th April - 1st May 2012 Patong, Phuket Now we had already read in our travel books that Phuket especially Patong was considered as a seedy area, so we werent expecting that much. On our first evening we walked to the centre to try and find some food ...
The next chapter, Hong Kong
... Palmerston North. It's an exciting move and is only for 1 year. At the moment the thought of going somewhere a little cooler than Thailand is certainly appealing. It is about 24 C there, compared to 38 C in Thailand. It feels like a lifetime ago since we ...