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Surat Thani Slideshow
Surat Thani
Travel Blogs from Surat Thani, Thailand
day tripper
well , I got a taxi then a boat then a bus then a taxi then a plane , what a mission to get to ...
Suran Thani
... to Ranong (from where I'll enter Burma to renew the Thai visa), but it's ok. Off the touristic path, just a passing by, you get a more realistic picture of Thailand. I am together with a Canadian guy and we just returned from a walk to the night ...
Unexpected stop-over before Ko Tao
... , all exclusively Chinese; so no one to talk to then. I sat in the back and just read my book. The journey to Surat Thani on the east coast of Thailand took around nine hours. A few hours in we crossed the border at Hat Yai and I had my passport ...
Long trip
... the earliest bus to the beach. We made it to the bus station and bought our tickets for the 6:30am bus. We made it to Surat Thani just in time to catch the last ferry to Koh Samui, which is then another hour ferry ride away from our ultimate destination ...
Ein steiniger Weg
Nach 5 Tagen im Paradies kommen wir wieder nach Surat Thani. Surat Thani ist eine ganz besondere Stadt. Sie gehört zu den wenigen dieser Welt, die absolut garkeinen Charm besitzt. Sie erinnert an eine überdimensionale Autobahnraststätte, was sie ihm ...
Elephant Trekking
Elephant trekking today as missed out when we were being poorly up north! Got the songthaews out to the elephant ranch and then clambered straight on to our elephant called "Bly" who was not the most spritely of elephants around but plodded along at ...
From A to B via X,Y & Z
... cleansing ales over dinner, but fell a fair way shy of that one. I ended up on the slow boat overnight which left Surit Thani at 2300. Sleeping arrangements were a bunch of 'mattresses' thrown on the floor. They weren't much over an inch thick, but with ...
A Full Moon Travesty - Everyone say "Phuk-Et"
Words fail me. If I hadn't had the naivete kicked out of me by a copper in Warrington some 25 years ago (and the hole subsequently filled by cynicism courtesy of Thatcher) I would thi morning be slack-jawed, open-mouthed and full of incredulity. Is that ...
Spelunking, a cave, bats and some massive spiders
It was a six hour bus journey from Krabi to Khao Sok, and it seemed to last forever. It was like sitting in a microwave with wheels, except when the doors opened it didn't go "ding"! We arrived in the middle of nowhere and were dropped by the side of ...
Koh Pah Ngan - Gecko Beach
... journey has involved a surprisingly little amount of beach laziness. In S>America only Mollendo in Peru served that purpose but suddenly in Thailand we are in beach paradise. Hua Hin was two full days of sizzle and swim and now in KPN we are staying ...
Day 13 - Night Train to Surat Thani
... , no plan in place except a destination and our wits to get us there. Our first experience aboard the red eye rail to Surat Thani. All the sleeper seats were sold out but this didn't discourage us from our path. Four-hundred Baht and one ...
Hua Hin to Surat Thani
... out the senseless. Despite the distractions seven hours passes remarkably quickly. Too quickly. We find ourselves in a desolate bus park in Surat Thani with 3 hours to spare waiting for our ferry. Liza has flu like cold symptoms and feels shit. Now a ...
Surat-Thani (Khao-Sok)
... and pics of this area in a week or so. Though a funny (or not so funny) story was while i was waiting for the train from Surat-Thani to Prachuap Khiri-Khan i had about 4hrs to kill so thought i'd get some kin khao (food) saw a load of people eating behind ...
Surat Thani
Not much to say here - we got dropped off the bus, had a spot of lunch at the bus station ready to get on another bus to Krabi. There was a group of guys going in the other direction, presumably to the Full Moon Party which was on Sunday night. ...
Beachcombers
Or, things you find on a beach. The small saving grace of the Full Moon party, besides getting out of there, was meeting a French couple on the beach with who we had shared the boat over. They promised to drop by the next day with a little present. ...
Monday 9 july 2001 - ko samui the hard way ...
... . The minibus, with 12 passengers crammed into a vehicle designed for 8, whilst not entirely reasonable, took us to the Gulf of Thailand port of Surat Thani in four hours. There we were told that the ferry left at 6.00pm, two hours after we arrived. I ...
Train to Surat Thani
... way to see the view was to bob your heard rapidly. The other passengers must have thought we were loons. We arrived in Surat Thani after 9 hours, and walked right off the train into a crowd of touts and taxi drivers. One woman in particular was very ...
Voyage Lanta-Bangkok...
... jusqu'a Surat Thani, a deux heures de la, alors qu'on est cense avoir un bus VIP de Krabi jusqu'a Bangkok. Arrives a Surat Thani, on nous fait encore attendre une bonne demi heure, sans rien nous dire, jusqu'a ce que plusieurs demandent a quelle ...
Thailand - Bangkok, Koh Pha Ngan, Koh Samui....
Seemed like a romantic notion to travel by sleeper from the Thai islands to Kuala Lumpur. Michael Palin makes it look easy but the reality is not quite the same. Still the trains are very comfortable, even in 2nd class, and clever the way the bunks ...
Return to Surat, part the first
... and waited at the roadside for a songthaew. Our arrival at Nathon pier was just in time to catch the express boat to Surat. The entire deck was covered in sprawling travellers working on unhealthy-looking tans. At Ban Don we got a songthaew to town, ...
Dodgy travel agents in Surat Thani..
... onto the back going at breakneck speed along the dirt tracks. Not the best parting memory of Koh Phangnan.... Anyway, ferry direct to Surat Thani - ticket from Joint Tickets company. Ferry ok but then had to wait 2 hours for coach. No coach just 3 ...
Bus, boat, and train
... took a bus (part of the deal) to the train station. Then we had more time to kill. Unfortunately killing time in Surat Thani isn't a quarter as fun as killing time in Samui. There is absolutely nothing to do, especially late at night. Our train ...
On the High Seas - Koh Tao
... stuff from our 'Pirates on the Ocean' exploits in getting here. In other news....9 districts around Chiang Rai in the North of Thailand have declared states of emergency as 2 people have died due to the temperature plummeting to a freezing.....54 ...
Rain Rain go away!
... ), safe in the knowledge that it is the best time of year weather wise, to visit and it has rained incessantly. We are currently in Surat Thani, the town that the ferry to Ko Samui goes from and we thought it might brighten up once we got 2 the island but ...
Surat Thani
Surat Thani is a non-descript city in the peninsular of Thailand. We arived on my 5th flight in 8 days with luggage and imediatly sorted out our transport to the Islands. We had to get an air con VIP bus to the centre from the airport, wait around in ...