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Thailand Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Thailand
High Society
This is a top pick! Time moves slowly in the mountains, perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the majority of the day is spent ensuring your survival. Cultivating the rice paddies, colleting fire wood so you can cook, gathering roots from the fields and ...
Island Hopping
This is a top pick! ... food during the day, we get to a bakery and tuck into the first food of the day. On first impressions we notice that Thailand really does have plenty of smiley people, the food is really cheap and the cakes are pretty delicious. We decide to try and ...
Lazing the Day Away
This is a top pick! Today started like most do here in Bangkok only today I decided when I finished reading the Bangkok Post to crack open the other English language newspaper, The Nation. When I was done with that it was time for a few bits from Newsweek and The Economist ...
Day 67: Alone No More, Reunited w/Jeff
This is a top pick! After sleeping in and squandering much of the morning dawdling around in the hostel (which is quite nice and new), I disembarked for some random exploration. It was already 11am and I had to leave for the airport by 2:30 (takes an hour to get there and ...
Erewan and the bridge over the River Kwai
This is a top pick! We wake up but Helena is feeling ill and Yiknur won't leave a man down, so... I decide that I can't be held down and make a quick and easy decision to go out for the day and leave them both behind! (Tough call, riiight) I rent a moped, which ...
Arrived in Thailand
This is a top pick! ... a much larger window (with curtains), slightly more room and it was easier to keep your bags close at hand. Arriving in Thailand the next morning was quite straight forward, everyone had to get off the train for immigration and then wait twenty minutes ...
Tuk-tuks in the rain
This is a top pick! ... checked in my suitcase at the United Travellers Connection seeing as I was not going to need that much as I travelled into northern Thailand. Kate and Jonty however were at the tail ends of their travels, and were carrying plenty so a taxi was called ...
Ko Phi Phi
This is a top pick! The short 55 minute flight from Samui to Phuket doesn´t change the scenery too much, but I still can see the evidence of the tourist destruction that I´ve heard so much about from other travelers. An hour later and Adi gets in without her bag, ...
Destination Bangkok
This is a top pick! We had the choice of paying $160 for a plane ticket from Siem Reap to Bangkok, or $10 to take the bus, so we took the scenic route. We took a mini-bus from our hotel to catch the larger bus to the border where we had to unload to go though customs on ...
Back in Bangkok
This is a top pick! Check in hassles (scissors and mosquito swatter checked in separately) Taxi hassle (gang together and refuse to turn meter on) - better to arrive earlier in day (taxi should be 250 on meter) Dropped off and checked in 120B room --- Shawn leaving in a ...
The Great Bangkok Tuk-Tuk Scam
This is a top pick! So, we had our first real scam pulled on us yesterday, but came out pretty much unscathed, except for the blisters on our feet. We're been traveling with two Canadian girls we met on Koh Tao island (who are a total riot I might add). So we wake up on ...
R U Serious! 3rd class tickets only!?
This is a top pick! ... the oldest bicycles in the world before racing around the park at lightning speed. All the postcard pictures that you see of Thailand were all taken in this place. Some of the sights were instantly recognisable. Sarah took great pleasure in showing me ...
Culture Shock in Bangkok
This is a top pick! ... : Day : 65 Temperature : 33 degress Weather : Sunny in the mornings, rainy late afternoons We have arrived in "Amazing Thailand"!! We didn't think we'd make it here quite so easily when our Indian Airlines flight from Kathmandu to Delhi was ...
Our room came with pets
This is a top pick! Its hard to keep a travel blog up to date. Every day so many things happen that you wish you could share with someone. Like yesterday So I've decided to just type up a few sections right from the pages of my journal to kind of get caught up. I've ...
Simple Pleasures at Simple Life
This is a top pick! I have caught up, but it's only really by cheating. I have managed to buy us an extra day, by making sure I didn't have anything additional to write for today's exploits - making my job a lot simpler to catch up. The reason we haven't done anything ...
Royal Elephant Kraal
This is a top pick! We just happened to be in town when a very important ceremony was to take place, the blessing of the new posts for the Royal Elephant Kraal. In order to give some perspective you need to understand some history first--- (over 200 years ago) only Kings ...
Time to get back on the road
This is a top pick! Its nice to be caught up. It finally gives me a chance to write in the here and now and not having to remember back. Its been about 4 weeks since I've been able to do that. Sitting on the balcony of our room in the Simple Life Resort I've turned on the ...
Everything must come to an end... to Ko Pha Ngan!
This is a top pick! Reaching the pier just in time to hear that the 45-minute ferry had an hour delay was awesome. I don't want to leave Ko Tao and momentarily contemplate disregarding my plans and just chilling there for a few weeks, months, years. Ko Pha ...
We're going to the beach!
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 178 Temperature : 30 degrees Weather : Hazy sunshine, cloudy afternoons We didn't know what to expect coming to Ko Yao Noi. From what we've heard Phuket is heaving with tourists and the beaches in Krabi are now covered in rows of ...
Bridge over the River Kwai
This is a top pick! ... as we just sat back and relaxed in the sun! All in all we had a really amazing day..... Next stop was Ayutthaya, Thailand's original capital city, we planned to hang around there for a few of days, however after arriving we soon realised the ...
Back to Bangkok
This is a top pick! The train back is painless and I sleep almost the entire way with brief discussions with the monk across the aisle. I check into my hostel on Khoa San (backpacker's road) and walk around the center of the city to see Wat Pho, the Grand Palace, ...
Little Fish and Big Cats
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 186 Temperature : 32 degrees Weather : Scattered clouds Wow, wow, wow! What a great day! Where do I begin? Kevin decided that he would have a common "treatment" here in Bangkok.....the "fish massage". This is essentially a big fish ...
Talc Beaches & tattoos and the Shots can't lose!
This is a top pick! ... really needed to go to a proper clinic with real doctors for his disease on his back as some of the 'professionals' in Thailand were nothing more than a glorified shop assistant that just happened to work in a pharmacy. The first doctor we saw took one ...
More than one night in Bangkok
This is a top pick! He Said: A short flight from Langkawi brought us to the Thai capital of Bangkok. Forget any illusions you might have about Bangkok being exotic and mysterious. Maybe it once was, but now is very much a pulsing, sprawling, modern metropolis, complete ...
B-B-B-Bangkok
This is a top pick! Well, since we last wrote we indeed partied. When they say "free drinks" at ladies night in HK, they really mean free drinks! The boys were paying 5pounds/pint and we were paying.. nothing.. for anything. Oh my. We of course did not drink too many of ...
Ow you bar-steward
This is a top pick! We decided to take a trip around the 5 islands, including a trip to the Emerald cave. We were up for a spot of snorkelling, nice lazy lunch on the boat before heading back into Koh Lanta. We had a bit of a splish splash, spotting numerous fish in their ...
PHUK ET
This is a top pick! So we got up early to head to Phuket, the ferry was quite uneventful and same same. Got a minibus to Kata beach to try and find somewhere to stay. We deliberately chose Kata beach as oppose to the lively party beach of Patong as we thought a couple of ...
The Land of Smiles
This is a top pick! "The Land of Smiles" is to the best of my knowledge something cooked up by the Tourism Association of Thailand and is used quite often as a moniker for those in the know and is now bastardized even worse by the pretentious who type "LOS" in message boards ...
Phuket - and some 5 star living
This is a top pick! AAAAANnnnnnnd Reeeelax......Haaaaaaaaaaa Oh My God ! this is living we could definitely get used to. We arrived at the airport and took a taxi to the flagship JW Marriott and Marriott Beach Club Resort. On entering the lobby we were ...
From The Rubber Triangle to The Golden Triangle
This is a top pick! ... France and Germany combined; from its headwaters in the Tibetan mountains, it runs through the Yunnan province of China, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia. The Mekong is second to that of the Amazon River, in its diversity of plant and animal ...