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Chumphon Slideshow
Chumphon
Travel Blogs from Chumphon, Thailand
Zugfahrt 2. Teil
... , dass wir nach Koh Phangan wollen. Von nun an wird uns nicht mehr zugehoert. Wir wollen nur das Zugticket nach Chumphon, mehr nicht (da haben wir naemlich bereits ein Hotel fuer die Nacht gebucht). Auch nachdem wir dem Fahrkartenverkaeufer das mehrmals ...
Long Drive, Pattaya to Chumphon
... from the bar next block, pumping out laud moronic music until late night. I don't know where are the serious restaurants. Along KrungLuang Chumphon Road near the Ocean Shopping Mall, there are many street food vendors on both side of the street, if u r ...
Breathing Underwater
Turtle Island - it really is paradise. Water so clear you wonder if there's any difference between up and down and aren't completely sure until you lower your hand and find it wet. Towering palm trees full of unripened coconuts and sand so white it ...
Tuity Fruity Chumphon
... you get the usual street food and great deals in the more touristy places and you do get the sense of Thailand. But in places like Chumphon the friendliness feels more genuine, the food is spicier and cheaper, your guesthouse host will sit down and have ...
Day 50 - Objectif Plage / Beach Mission
... du matin, en attendant un bus qui n'est jamais arrive ------------------------------------------------- Making our way to the islands South of Thailand Objectif : Ko Phayam, on the recommendations of Kel & Stu ! Arrived around 12am after 30 hours of ...
Journey Prachuap Khiri Khan - Chumphon - Ko Tao
... up by a loud argument between the owner and his Thai wife/partner. We do not really visit the city of Chumphon but it seems very much like a typical town in Thailand with nothing exciting to see. Our boat ticket to the Island of Ko Tao is arranged by the ...
shout out #8
... to the border. we then officially left thailand, took a boat to myanmar, stamped our passports, and officially re-entered thailand with a new 30 day visa. chumphon is the point of departure for koh tao, an island in the gulf of thailand. the next day i ...
hotel california
... this town. we checked out of phuket and jumped on a bus north to the mainland. several hours later we pulled into chumphon. people blink at us and children stare. evidently tourists only come to get on the boats to the nearby islands. very ...
The Eastern Oriental Express
... 10pm in Chumphon, and crashed on my berth till the next morning, totally exhausted... As we are heading South, Thailand becomes mostly Muslim. Tensions between Muslim separatists and Thai authorities have escalated during recent years as Muslims don't ...
Long journey to the Islands
... decker with reclining seats. This was surprisingly more comfortable than our previous bus journeys. We arrived on time at 5.15 am at Chumphon and then waited with about 80 others for the 7.00am catamaran to the Island of Koh Tao where we had booked in ...
Burma
... the boat trip in the most unstable boat in the world. My heart went out to the street kids on the docks in Myanmar. Thailand is wealthy country in comparison. These kids were ruff. Growing up on the streets takes its toll on young features. I'd like to ...
Juna-asemalla
Chumphonin juna-asemalla olimme perillä noin 2 tuntia aikataulusta jäljessä. Saavuimme siis perille noin puoli kuuden aikoihin. Meillä oli siis jo pienet kuumotukset, sillä netistä kaivettujen ennakkotietojen mukaan ensimmäinen bussi satamaan ...
Chumphon (Floods)
... of the beach is the Prince of Chumphon shrine which was built to commemorate the late Admiral Phra Borommawong Thoe Kromluang Chumphon Khet Udomsak. There's also a small museum with the admiral's biography and belongings. The shrine is set upon a small ...
Stitched up good and proper!
... like mad. It really was unbelievable. In the end I had to turn my iPod on really Lou to drown him out. We arrived at Chumphon on time and we quickly jumped off to get our boat transfer at severn. The guy who booked us the tickets the night before told ...
Chumphon - Stepping stone to Koh Tao
Special entry by Anna, Laura, Chris and Craig........ We were so pleased to see Will and Debs. They were both so brown and seemed like very experienced travellers. They had both been clearly enjoying themselves on their travels and ...
What country is this anyways?
... which was to ferry us over to myanmar, where we would hit up the immigration office, pick a few fights, and head back to thailand. Off the boat went along the river, passing fishing boat upon fishing boat and were off into the brown sludgy bay. It was ...
Just when you thought it was safe...
The last couple of days have been an absolute natural wonder fest: Sunset with bonus features Sunday night turned out to be more eventful than I had planned after my overnight journey from Bangkok to Koh Tao. I hiked up a steep hill to watch ...
The midnight train to Bangkok
Continued from ; Turtle island Hua Hin is a beachside city originally favoured by King Rama VII as a holiday retreat back in the 1920's. It's about 250 kms south of Bangkok, and boasts more golf courses than any other resort in the country. Now home to ...
Hydrofoil Transfer to Bus
We didn't get to see the end of the film. It featured a Wilson who ran ...
Red eye or red sky?
... where the owner kept shouting into the bus that this was the last stop, buy some refreshments every 30 seconds, then arrived in Chumphon really early (though it meant the bus driver could probably now go and sleep!). We were rewarded with an amazing ...
Full Moon
We spent a lovely week sunning ourselves in Koh Phangan. We managed to pick the perfect spot to stay which was about ten minute walk from the main town and where the full moon is, met some lovely people. Sammy and Yoah two Thai men who owned the bar ...
Sandbags, KFC with plates and kind Thais
... -town-with-not-a-single-white-face-Nathom. We went on the internet for abit, and found and booked a night at a hotel in Chumphon. Selected for it's locality near to the station. Killed abit of time on Facebook, etc. Decided we wanted Western food for ...
Chumphon - isn't crap
... to explore the quiet streets of Chumphon. We walked and walked until we were well and truly lost. After sundown Chumphon transforms into a completely different city. People were out on the streets, hawkers were setting up shop on the ...
Chumphon's Cr*p!
As you can tell by the total of 0 photos we took in Chumphon the place really ain't all that! We got the train down the coast from Hua Hin & booked 1 night at Suda's Guest House. (She was an absolute diamond. Anyone that can recommend good food ...
Take me to the (a) beach...
***WARNING - THIS MESSAGE SHOULD NOT BE READ BY ANYBODY AT WORK FIRST THING ON MONDAY MORNING*** I spent my last day in Bangkok wandering around and catching a few sights which I had missed first time round. These included the impressive Wat ...
Day 19 - The Wheels On The Bus Go Round And Round
... Full Moon the night before, and got a taxi to the pier at 11am. Waited for the boat at 12.30pm, said our goodbyes to Hannah, now down to 3! Arrived in Chumphon at 6pm. THEN had to wait a few hours and got the 8 hours bus heading to Bangkok at ...
Boat to Bus
We took the more expensive Catamaran option from Koh Tao believing we could hook up with the train back to Bangkok - but no, it took an hour from the port into town and they took us to the Farang Bar instead of to the station, so we missed the train. ...