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Surat Thani Slideshow
Surat Thani
Travel Blogs from Surat Thani, Thailand
Surat Thani
... Thai mainland in Krabi. From there we took a bus, which was quite good considering, to the other side of southern Thailand to a place called Surat Thani. Saying that the bus was quite good is in response to the many horror stories we have read about back ...
Swede Goodbye
... left Kris to go and do his own thing while we went to do ours, which was go to Phuket Town and get a 4-5 hour bus to Surat Thani. I'm currently writing the past day or so on the bus right now, so I'll finish for now. ... Very boring journey indeed. ...
Chiao Lan: That Dam Lake!
... to Chiao Lan Lake, which is actually man-made as a result of the Rajjaprapha dam. It's the biggest artificial lake in southern Thailand. Our entire tour group piled into a old-ish wooden boat and set out on an hour-or-so long journey across Chiao ...
Life is tough
howdy!! WEll were to begin....after crazy bangkok - we headed on a pretty hectic 12 hr bus to south thailand to get the boat over to the islands - we were told there wud be aircon - all sat in t shirts and shorts expexting ok temp - to have it so cold ...
Mindfulness in Meditation
... piled into a bus that took us to the main city of Surat Thani. Nothing too crazy to report....we got to Surat Thani, ran some errands (i.e., post office and ATM) and then started asking around for buses to Chaiya the site of the meditation retreat ...
Adventure awaits.
after a two and a bit hrs. we arrive in Surat thani. At the local dock the only boats out tonight are freight boats. This would take 7hrs instead of 3hrs. We opp to stay the night and check out what this town has to offer. Well, not too much as far as ...
I hope Australia sucks. Come back to Thailand
... would be a town there we could have a proper beer and a send-off. As we travelled on there was less and less, Thailand tapered off into a few cluttered places selling junk food and increasingly bad driving. I have heard the last leg of the country is ...
Bangkok 18h 1st class special express train
... erstmal durch den ganzen zug gesschlendert um hinten rauszuschauen. und eine dampfen bei tempo 100 an der offenen zugtuer : thailand i love you wie sau. 1te klasse ganz vorne 3te klasse ganz hinten. zwischendurch ncoh das restaurant, welches gleich ...
The Islands
... at the airport and we raced down to the islands! After a hellish over night bus ride that seemed to travel all over Thailand to make a fairly direct trip and after various stops at little expensive retaurants we arrived late for the ferry over to Ko ...
Ao Nang and Getting to Surat Thani
... always assume something unexpected and inconvenient will happen. Today our unexpected event was on our bus ride to Surat Thani. I had several emotional responses throughout this trip: first, suspicion at the cheap price; then pleasant ...
10 Tage nix reden / Rise and Shine
Suan Mokkh - Persoenliche Klausur und Meditationskurs Eintrag vor der Teilnahme am Kurs: Von 1. bis 10 August wollen Karl und ich eines unserer wahrscheinlich groesseren Abenteuer auf unserer Reise starten: Eine persoenliche Klausur durch Teilnahme ...
Tubing, Waterfalls & Monkeys
My last day in Chiang Mai I had a Thai Massage, which was just what I needed after all that trekking! Another night train brought us to Bangkok in the morning where we said goodbye to roughly half our group and in the evening we said hello ...
A place with nothing to do...
... random places that in hindsight, we shouldn't have bothered staying the night in...I present to you Udon Thani, Krabi Town and now, Surat Thani. Knowing that the journey from Ko Lanta (off the west coast) to Ko Phangnan (off the east coast) was going to ...
Dagen vi godt ville have været foruden
Togeventyr fra helvedeEfter vores todages tur på the floating river huts, skulle vi have transporteret os selv videre fra lokalbyen Surat Thani til Bangkok. Da vi havde læst meget positivt om Thailands togsystem i Lonely Planet, tænkte vi, at det kunne ...
Time Travel, 500 Years Into the Future
... our little scenic tour of Patong. Our bus arrived and took us through Khao Lak (toilet break with squat toilets) and on to Surat Thani about 6 hours later. We stopped at a station which I initially thought was the ferry, but we were informed that we ...
I hate those leeches to pieces
... breakfast with tasty bananas we headed to the bus station. We caught an air-con bus at 10 and it was a long journey to Surat Thani. We stopped at a market for lunch and were amazed to find it clean and appetizing! It was still raining when we reached the ...
Last Taste of Thailand
... dragged ourselves away from Ko Phangan to the relief of our livers and caught the ferry back to the mainland before taking a bus to Surat Thani, a provincial city which is a travel hub for the islands and from where we would be flying down to our last ...
Ahh ... sure we'll move on tomorrow ..
We are staying at a resort or more like a gathering of beach huts called Chalee Villa and it's a really pretty place. Our own wee hut is right on the beach and we have a great view of the sea and palm trees with hammocks and swings slung beneath ...
The overnight train to Surat Thani
... stop, since there were no announcements. At around 5 am, we were woken up by someone when we arrived ....whew. At Surat Thani, Russel, myself and a huge and I mean huge overexcited cockroach enjoyed breakfast and waited for the local bus to Khao ...
Night bus/boat/bus/boat
... vanished. Where is he?? Turns out he left his sunglasses on the plane!! We collect our luggage and head out to find a way into Surat Thani, still unsure whether we are getting the night bus or heading to a hostel. There is a big bus parked outside and we ...
Surat Thani - Never Ending Bus Ride
Smooth ferry crossing. Back aboard bus towards Surat Thani before making our way down towards the Thai/Malay boarder. Bus has next to no leg room with a toilet that smells like Glastonbury - ...
Leaving Bangkok
... with her. She is getting our visas for Vietnam and China, which will be ready by the time we return from the south of thailand, and we also finally commited to a date and booked train passage back from Surrathani (the hub for Ko Samui, Phuket, Phi ...
Farang
Just to get a pin in my map... Surat Thani is not a tourist town, there are only about 40-50 westerners living there and it was bizarre getting used to the stares for being blonde. However, everyone was friendly enough and would constantly stop me on the ...
Suckers Of Khao Sok
After our 12 hour bus journey and a breakdown we arrived in Surat Thani at 7am. We waited 20 minutes for the local bus, which took 2 hours to Khao Sok National Park. On arrival we jumped in a touts tuk tuk and were taken to "Jungle Huts". Being Songkran ...
Deep in the forest, far away from everywheres.....
Right then, with the infernal north is quite literally an inferno (ha ha ha - you se what i did there - ha ha ha), its a splendid thai-budget-airline flight to Surathani, to explor the jungles of Khao Sok. We were greeted upon arrival at the ...
