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Surin Slideshow
Surin
Travel Blogs from Surin, Thailand
The Waves Started
Well I didn't sleep very well. Not sure why. I kept checking the time all night, and with no window it was hard to even tell when it might have been daylight. The guy that helped us look for the camera had been quite adamant about us checking back with ...
Phuket
... (below right). The beach and outlook were sublime, unfortunately not the shopping, although Patong Beach had plenty of the things Thailand is infamous for, and for which tourists get their bad name. We were glad to retreat to Surin Beach ...
Jurassic Park
... chained up, unable to walk around or be in nature. I came here to be part of the Surin Elephant Project, which was commissioned by the Thailand Government to improve the living conditions of these captive elephants. As a volunteer, I live within this ...
Vacation on Vacation
... seeing the beach yesterday we agreed that this must not be surf season, or else we have the wrong beach. Looks like no surfing in Thailand for us. We then decide we had nowhere we needed to be and we could just sleep in. It wasn't even like we slept ...
Oh This Really Can Be A Surf Beach,
... , Matt hadn't even asked. The saddest part about today's goodbye to Surin, was the fact that it's so close to a goodbye to Thailand. Mom had told me one of her friend thought a month was long enough. I'm pretty sure I could do longer, granted this also ...
Hello Thailand!
The next leg of our journey began in Phuket, Thailand....we were staying for a week with Caz's dad and some of his friends in an incredible villa, complete with an infinity pool looking out to sea, cook, driver etc etc! The food was amazing, nice to have ...
new guesthouse
... u al voor stellen he en er was weer die duivelse franse wc op de trein en deze keer was er geen gewone. en nu zit ik hiet in surin en hoop dat ik wat slaap vandaag en morgen wat beter ben. en ik hoop dat er hier iets te doen is. ik blijf zeker vandaag en ...
So my journey begins...
... just my backpack and the lonely planets guide to south east asia and headed for a small community in the south east of Thailand named Surin Elephant Village - a 7 hour bus ride from Thailand's busy capital Bangkok. It was here, in Surin, where I was due ...
New Day
Short and sweet. The morning came and everything was better. The air was clean and breezy, breakfast was a delicious noodle soup with vinegar-soaked peppers, green onions and garlic. Not my typical Quaker Oat Squares. Way better! I was about to write ...
Elephant Roundup
What a lovely weekend we had! The Elephant Festival in Surin, Thailand, was even better than expected. I remember having seen something about it on American TV once. Apparently, the people of Surin are famous for capturing and training elephants. ...
Do you know the Toilet Man, the Toilet Man...?
So I drank too much coffee one morning (not the good stuff...for some reason Thais are addicted to Nescafe...blech) and I had to run to the restroom. I ended up almost peeing my pants because I looked over at the Men's Restroom and the sign said "Toilet ...
1 Day in Koh Surin
... , Richelieu Rock. In addition the islands feature pristine reefs, making it home to some of the best snorkelling in Thailand. The Surin Islands have a broad selection of animal life - including the Nicobar Pigeon and Mangrove Monitor Lizards. The Surin ...
Buvarkodas
Nagyon turelmetlenul vartuk, hogy vegre a Sea Dragon Diving Center szervezeseben nekiinduljunk a 4 napos buvar-turanak a Surin es Similian szigetek korul! 20 buvarkodo es 5 buvarmester volt a hajon, plusz a thai szemelyzet. Este 10-kor indultunk, es ...
Surin
... ; * * * Teaching in Surin “Good Morning Teacher” C’est comme ca que les élèves tous en coeur me disent bonjour! Ca va ...
Thailand Dive Adventure
... Australia's Great Barrier Reef where he supposedly resides) in the past 6 years and never some one. Who knew they were in Thailand? I also saw their cousin, the Tomato clownfish, who was kinda aggressive. No wonder Disney didn't include them in the movie. ...
SURIN- Gantreum and Khmer Folk 7/21-23
I'm still trying to get something going with the gantreum music in this area, but so far it just isn’t happening. I can buy CD’s of course, which I’ve already done, but to really get involved at this level I need to make some strong ...
ELEPHANTS!
The title of today's blog is ELEPHANTS! because seriously, does it need anything more than that? Elephants are the most adorable, fun-loving huge creatures and throughout my whole life I have wanted to touch one. Today my wish came true ten-fold! We ...
280 Elephants, 10 Farangs, and 1 Dance Club
... got to catch the bus early for our big trip to Surin. Surin was the site of one of the biggest festivals in Northeastern Thailand called the Elephant Roundup. Laura and I ran out to the street in front of the school with our friend and English Department ...
Elephants!
... Round Up is an annual event in which dozens of elephants trained in the arts of being awesome gather in the town of Surin in Northeastern Thailand. The baby parade came first with all of the new borns that year coming out side by side with the mama's ...
Khao Lak & Surin Islands
... . The others were teachers from Australia and USA living and working in Bangkok, so it was interesting to hear their perspective in Thailand as expats. So every day we went to 4 snorkel sites and 2 on the last morning. The first day had ...
Italiano Meets Thailand
... in my head. They were being all chummy with Dave and then told him that they were working for some kind of Tourism company in Thailand and they had these scratch cards they wanted to us scratch to see what we had won. Of course they tell me that I've won ...
Farm livin' is the life for me!
... , not "I'm plowed." I plowed. A field. With a tractor. Annie and I spent two days and two nights on a farm in Northeastern Thailand, in a small village near the city of Si Sa Ket. Our day train from Bangkok arrived in Si Sa Ket in the evening. ...
Diving and snorkelling on a live aboard
Chris had been planning on doing a live aboard dive trip whilst we were in Thailand. We were going to do it further down the coast but there was a dive shop in Koh Phayam offering a 3 night/3 day package to the Surin and Similan islands so we decided to ...
KR Territory
At last we make it to Anlong Veng - stronghold of the Khmer Rouge until 1998 and home of Brother Number 1 Pol Pot and Brother Number 2 Ta Mok - two of the most ruthless men to have lived in the past century. As we have arrived so late, ...
A well deserved break
... long either, thank god, I fddellt crap enough on three hours sleep, imagine if it was any less. One of my favourite moments in Surin was during the second weekend, Janine and I had decided to go and find the nearest internet cafe, we cycled there, now I ...
Meeting the Rellies Thai style!
We'd been invited by Tim and Pensri to visit them in Pensri's home village Surin. This meant getting a taxi back to Bangkok airport and then a flight to Buriram where they met us at the airport together with Pensri's mother, some of the family's ...
Arrival!!!!
... that the plane seemed to be full of either young back packers of dirty old men. That is all I've got time to write in this installment, however next time i will talk about meeting the other volunteers and the journey to Surin and the Surin project! x ...
Cute - but snotty!
Hi Everyone! I'm here in Surin - living like a student! I'm sharing a house with the other volunteers - they're all lovely girls! We spent a few days getting to know the layout of the place and began our voluntary placements on Monday ...
My Elephant Ride
One of my Must-do's in Thailand....Elephants! They are the most adorable, gigantic things! I was in their study center, so I got to see how they train and care for them. It was just...WOW! Dumbo, ...
Culture Shock Ahead of Schedule
... be a good idea to buy some Thai tea (the orange kind) so that I could make some with condensed milk when I got home from Thailand. Simple enough. So, I'm in the market looking through the different kinds of tea and I can't find it. I ask an employee if he ...