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Pattaya Slideshow
Pattaya
Travel Blogs from Pattaya, Thailand
boot scoot and boogie out of town baby
ah talk about timing once again. when i was in nepal they had been under a four month cease fire for whatever reasons. there were exactly zero bombings and shootings while i was there. the day i left the country broke out in riots and then about a week ...
Day 27: (W)Ring in the new!
... wouldn't drain. Upon going into the bathroom I discovered that the plastic pipe on the bidet tube had burst (a common sight in Thailand is to find that there is no toilet paper - just a pipe with a squirt attachment that functions like the aforementioned ...
Sin City...
... oui les filles dommage on est pas des mecs faciles... Et on est surement mieux que la grande majorite des hommes ici a Pattaya... Mias voyant qu'elles commencent a ranger les chaises on leur demande a quelle heure ca ferme, elles nous repondent quand ...
LOST: one soul....
well im back in thailand for the moment waiting for a friend to fly in. i suppose ill have to pick him up from the airport and all that good stuff so im pretty sedintary at them moment so not too much to talk about. sight seen: man, dog, cow all eating ...
Rough seas in Koh Phangnan and back to calm Samui
Has been a while since last entry. We hung around Lamai and Cha-weng for a few days. Went to see some Thai boxing which was slightly surreal. In a normal world if two 6 year olds are caught beating the crap out of each other, they are told off and sent ...
another endurance run
... sex-tourism hotspots, not for the pursuit of the scandalous, but for an athletic event. The Pattaya Marathon which after the Bangkok Marathon, is Thailand’s second largest with 5,000 runners in the marathon and ½ marathon combined. ...
Farniente et soapy massage.... Int aux -18 ans
... une omelette au porc hache, pas mauvais. Puis suis alle me renseigner pour mon bus pour aller a Koh Tao depuis Pattaya sans avoir a repasser par Bangkok. En trouve un pour 1400 baths incluant le bus pour Bangkok jusqu'a mon bus puis le bus ...
Pattaya, you wouldn't believe it....
... stay for one more night in Pattaya. Why? Well today is Loy Krathong, a big holiday in Thailand and there is no bigger party town than Pattaya….duh…. Loy Krathong is a Buddhist celebration of rebirth, or giving up bad juju, ...
Lobster reunion!!
... that but neither of us were very enamoured with the place. We found a restaurant called Mango Tree, there are a few of them across Thailand that we have been to before so we knew we would get a good meal there and weren't let down...curry and cocktails, ...
Chorp tee nee mahk!
... the country, including a giant Buddha carved and painted into the side of the mountain, the only one like it in all of Thailand. When we first got there, we walked into a courtyard that was covered in sculptures made entirely of terra cotta pots. ...
New Year - Pattaya, Ko Larn, Chanthaburi
... we welcomed on the beach. There was no official countdown, but many fireworks around us made the coming midnight pretty obvious. In Thailand people celebrate three new years - western, Chinese at the end of January, and Thai New Year called Songkran in ...
Pattaya
... missing. Turns out that Colin lives in Pattaya and is an industrial scale filth hunter like 90% of the people that visit Pattaya which quite frankly can only be described as the arsehole of south east Asia, it consists of a massive development stretching ...
Pattaya - here and safe!
Well ladies and gents, i have made it safely to Pattaya in Thailand. I been here now for nearly 2 whole days and its starting well. Got a sweet room and place to stay for the next 2 months or so, got absolutely smashed on the night i arrived, ...
visiting Pattaya
this one city that i visited when i'm in Thailand... such an exotic, weird, akward, yet interesting city.. it's a free city, and the city will come alive at night. lots of bar, pub, till prostitution place hahaha... guys, gays, girls, transsexual. you ...
open water divers
... and easiest place to get to from Dhaka. Pattaya isnt somewhere I would choose for a relaxing holiday... think Blackpool... just in Thailand!! However it has good diving and with time limitations it was perfect for what we needed. Our second day was the ...
Glad we crashed the wedding...
In The House of the Dead (a semi-autobiographical novel about his time imprisoned in Siberia), Dostoevsky suggests that the constraints of a compulsory life are difficult for the educated man to bear. I would agree with this, as I imagine would ...
Rebel without applause
... Honda Civic to which we've become accustomed when I've not (as is usual) been trusted on the scooter to head towards central Pattaya and "Mini Siam" at which one can wander round and take in miniature versions of some of the great sights of the ...
confused.com
... -paedo) orphanage to offer our services and more importantly, cash. We then foolishly headed for the main road through Pattaya, Sukimvit, where we were promptly pulled over by police looking for some spending money for the evening. They had a ...
The Elephant Man
... , I hope that one day he does go for it and succeeds. We spent the afternoon at the slightly bizarre Pattaya Floating Market. Aside from the countless stores of slightly overpriced tourist tit-tat set around water, there was an inexplicable ...
Life in "Luton Town", Thailand
... completely indecipherable to Thais and ex-pats alike. He is single, and lives here permanently, periodically dropping into Pattaya to pick up female "company". His most recent adventure, undertaken with a small, large eared British friend, ...
Pavorothai and being fingered by the cops
... musicals and a few original numbers with an impressively powerful voice. It transpired that he had just finished recording an album in Thailand, due for release in February 2013, so it may be that we were there at the start of the career of the ...
Our ride is preggers
... makes people think I’ll overcome language barriers to understand what they’re saying. We got our tour booked and the people from Pattaya Elephant Village came to pick us up in a van. As usual, we had an interesting ride to get to the ...
Mad Dogs and Englishman
The trip from Bangkok to Pattaya was suitably confusing. We climbed into one of the thousands of brightly coloured taxis which swarm around Bangkok, having agreed to pay just over 20 English pounds (1,200 Thai Baht) for the two hour southbound ...
Yin and yang in Pattaya
... an odd day of contrasts in my life. The day started with Shelley, her mum and dad and me catching a taxi into Pattaya to attend a Christian church service at the Royal Twin Palace Hotel. The extremely air conditioned room on the twelfth floor cut a ...
Troubles in paradise...
... ears. All in all a very entertaining evening… Sunday - Shelley’s mum and dad’s penultimate in Thailand (or so we thought) - started out with perfect sunshine and tranquillity and we all enjoyed the best of Thailand’s weather ...
Crocs away...
... in doubt is that the institutions which remain as Father Ray's legacy are positive and much needed in this of all places in Thailand... Having had a sobering morning, we met with Shelley's parents and their neighbour Steve and his Thai wife Sod (I kid you ...
Long Neck Karen and other tales
... and we were on our way. At this juncture it is worth commenting that riding a “motorbike” (OK, scooter) in Thailand (anywhere in SE Asia for that matter) is like playing on an arcade game, albeit the consequences of “Game ...
Pattaya konec
Yak pratele, zetra je posledni den..vecir to berem na letiste. Slibuju, ze to vsechno doplnim az prijedem domu!! Skoda, starej Macik vodesel..novej prijde.. Mejte ...
"Sexy Monkey"
... be an unpredictable one). Yesterday was a day of pampering as me, Shelley and Shelley's mum headed into the outskirts of Pattaya for a beautifying session together with next door neighbour Pia, her mother and 18 month old daughter Antonia, who looks at ...
The Krays, crashes and girls, girls, girls...
... when marching proudly down this road, being called into bars by literally tens of women but - having read about the life of prostitutes in this region - the overall sentiment is one of pity and self reproach. Welcome back to Thailand… ...