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Thailand Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Thailand
Movies, Thai Style
This is a top pick! ... people. Coupons are needed to buy the food... I left it up to Game to select the food which consisted of a few vegetable dishes, fried chicken (delicious!), assorted pastries and rice. The Thai food and people have made my visit to Thailand so ...
First Day Out in Chiang Mai
This is a top pick! ... all your life, important land marks, spots you remember from literature, and more museums than you can see in a lifetime. Northern Thailand is mostly trekking and wats. And we weren't up to trekking and all the wats look pretty much the same ...
The Secret of Koh Lipe
This is a top pick! ... goes on and on about how Thailand is paradise. However, I have never been overly convinced and since travelling some of Thailand I am still not convinced. I agree that Thailand has white beaches, blue seas but these are usually surrounded by about a ...
Xmas and New Year in Thailand
This is a top pick! ... It seemed for the moment that we were still on the beaten track and wondered if we were ever going to get into the 'cheap' Thailand we heard so much about.... We headed off by boat to an Island called Koh Lanta. This place was a fair bit cheaper ...
To the border
This is a top pick! Right I'm off. Finally. I've just replaced half my backpack with textbooks and in just a few hours I'll be back on the road. The elation is blissful, I can't tell you. Another 18 hours of overland joy and I'll be in Vietnam. War relics, pho and the ...
888
This is a top pick! It's eight O'clock on the eighth day of the eighth month of the eighth year of the 21st century! I'm in Bangkok, just climbed out of a crazy arse tuk-tuk and checked into a place on Rambuttri Road. Just spent the last eight-een hours in transit, ...
Rolling out of 'Nam
This is a top pick! ... this part of the trip. A short but happy two weeks in Vietnam. We are moving on out of Nam in desperate need of some R&R, Thailand being the destination of choice. This part of the trip we haven't put too much thought into and are hoping for it to be ...
Back to the beach!
This is a top pick! ... 't tell you how! I wish we had had time to explore but we got our visas stamped and we hustled back on to the boat and back to Thailand. Not before we had been fleeced out of $30. Our $20 bill we had to pay for the visas in Burma had a tiny red paint mark ...
Rain rain go away
This is a top pick! ... it only lasted about half an hour! Cat and Rik kept saying they didnt mind the rain, they were from Manchester, but we knew Thailand had more to offer than rain. We checked into the best hotel in the world EVER. It was off season so everything was cheap ...
Run to the sun
This is a top pick! We legged it from Phuket the next day as quick as possible, got the night boat back to Koh Tao. It was the same one we came on with the window missing out of bed number 21. No problems this time and we arrived to brilliant sunshine on Koh Tao! We found ...
Haven't we been here before?
This is a top pick! ... water! Got into hardcore 4 way bat and ball on the beach. It felt like Cat and Rik had been with us for a month not two weeks, we had had so much fun! But it had to end sometime and our visas were running out (again). We had to leave Thailand ...
Not a week old yet
This is a top pick! "remember...baby cries....hand to Mommy....run away!" Brett ---------------------------------------------------------- Kitty is well. She is 6 days old today. She is eating / drinking well and sleeps a lot. We get up a few times during the ...
Sawaat di kaa everyone!!! well we have just ...
This is a top pick! ... do it again, knowing what it is like but I thought because we were beginners they would be easy on us...not the way in Thailand....We slept on floors in thatched roof huts with no mattresses just with a very thin mat and a blanket and cement like square ...
return to paradise
This is a top pick! I decided I'd get away to the islands for a few days before my eye surgery as I wasn't sure how much traveling I'd be able to get in afterwards. I booked a flight online for the next morning to Phuket (ya, spur of the moment). I arrived in Phuket ...
Lairy life in Laem Son
This is a top pick! The Police Station Deciding to miss Koh Samui out this time round was an easy decision. In the ever so tiny terms and conditions section of each fast-food promotional ad I read, it stated that none of the amazing meal deals or associated pricing ...
Sleeping on a Wooden Plank and with the Bed Bugs
This is a top pick! ... beside the tracks. After trying to digest this fact, we visited the JEATH museum (Japan, England, America, Thailand and Holland) dedicated to the prisoners of war captured by the Japanese army. This museum is located inside one of ...
Friendly People
This is a top pick! Chiang Mai is a lovely town in the North of Thailand with a temple high up in the clouds on a mountain top. As we reached the top of this wonder, I realized that I had forgotten the camera (but not the hats). I am hoping that my sister and brother in law ...
Preface
This is a top pick! ... in life and in travelling. But it is possible to be overly prepared, to regiment something into a neurosis. After settling on Thailand, booking the tickets and buying the 'obligatory' Lonely Planet guide, I started working myself into a fever pitch. ...
Your life is a sham when you're in Koh Pha Ngan
This is a top pick! ... day back in Bangkok. Though I wasn't overly pleased, it allowed me to get a glimpse of Songkram, the New Year celebrated in Thailand, Cambodia and Lao. I was on Khao San Rd, the epicenter of the festivities in Bangkok. The celebration is a huge, three day ...
Phang Nga
This is a top pick! ... Visiting friends requires flexibility and compromise, and we exercised both when agreeing to do Phang Nga. Phang Nga is the area of Thailand that comes to mind when you think of the movie "The Beach." While beautiful, the area attracts many tourists, ...
Thailand's Princess
This is a top pick! ... communities. I like some of the attitudes here much more. Anyway I hope this article helps explain something about Thailand to you. PRINCESS OF COMPASSION Mercy mission to the highlands How best to help disadvantaged children cope with rapid ...
Living in the Bubble of Luxury
This is a top pick! ... well-to-do? On the front page of the following morning's newspaper I read that 70,000 were expected to march on Thailand's Government House later that day in an anti-government protest. 20,000 police had been brought in to keep the demonstration ...
School Dinners
This is a top pick! This time last year or even a few months ago, if you'd asked me if I could ever see myself standing in front of a classroom of 50 Thai kids teaching them the Hokey Pokey to learn the parts of the body I would have wondered if you'd spent too long in the ...
She's Not Lost, Just Missing!
This is a top pick! ... decided to give her a call but ended up getting her Dad back in America who now thought we had lost her daughter somewhere in Thailand. Fortunately Pen struck lucky at a near by hotel where she found Julia (in 4 star luxury no less who was perhaps a ...
Random, I know
This is a top pick! ... meantime, I wanted to share something I came across on a travel website. I have a bit of a dodgy stomach today (eff you Thailand and your effing peppers in everything) so have spent the last 2 hours just taking it easy. That being said, here ...
Bangkok, we are very lucky people
This is a top pick! ... three seasons, Summer, Rain and Winter. The statue traveled far and long, being housed in several cities in Laos, Cambodia and Thailand. The temple complex is very 'bling bling'. Lots of colors, shiny ceramics and glass and of course gold, lots of ...
'Twas A Few Nights Before Christmas
This is a top pick! December 2003 'Twas a few nights before Christmas and down at the beach, We were thinking old Santa was way out of reach For this is the land of the Buddha we thought Whoa.........heavens to Betsy, maybe its not From out of the east a cool wind ...
Taking Jack to See the City of Monkeys
This is a top pick! Lopburi is a must see for our visitors. There aren't a lot of places in the world where you can have monkeys climb all over you while you stare at ancient ruins. Of course, there are always some mishaps. I have the infamous monkey ...