Travel Blogs from Thailand, Thailand
Aye, Aye it's the jungle of Khoa Yai
Khoa Yai is a national park full of jungle, wild animals & waterfalls. Possibly the scariest journey yet in terms of not being sure where we were going nor how we were going to get there. Started off well on Khoa San Road; the taxi meters lined ...
Stop Slavery
... sold her into prostitution. This wasn't true and now the girl lives with her family and village in Northern Thailand. Case 2. A rich Thai family visited the hill tribes in Northern Thailand. While visiting one family they commented that their ...
Chinatown
Today we took a cab for Bangkok's "Chinatown" which is about 1 hour drive from our hotel (based on the traffic). I know we all think Washington's has bad traffic, but I think this is much worst! Only positive thing to it is somehow, and I do not ...
Ko Samui
... you read the local paper there are quite a few articles about drug busts and dodgey bar owners. When you come to Thailand you will almost certainly be propositioned many times by some slick looking indian / nepalise man trying to selling you a ...
Happy New Year...Again....2550
... Chang Mai on first reflexion was bigger and more touristy than I expected. The lonely planet paints a picture of the culture center of Thailand, its not really...but took it for what it is. One good thing is that its Thai new year here, my third ...
Thai Hot
... middle of plane, sitting down for hours and lack of sleep, all of these things contributed to me nearly passing out mid flight!! What a welcome to Thailand, 30,000 ft lying on my back with my legs in the air getting the blood back to my head! Talked to an ...
Near Death Experience
Hey everybody, well as you know, Bangkok is not a great fan of safety, as we have once again experienced!, Andy needed some more trainers, so we decided to go to the MBK mall. Its absolutely huge, 5 stories tall! But 2 get there we had to get on a "tuck ...
Phuket Town
Phuket is so much better than we were expecting. Actually we were considering skipping Phuket but instead we decided to stay in Phuket town and not the beaches. Thalang guesthouse is where we stayed and we had one of the hugest double rooms we have ever ...
Floating Markets
The Samnoen Saduak Floating Market is every sat/sun and is open from 7am-4pm. For the last 20 years the markets have moved away from a traditional farmers market towards tourism. Due to modernization, roads, scooter etc the canal systems ...
