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Surat Thani Slideshow
Surat Thani
Travel Blogs from Surat Thani, Thailand
Khoa Sok National Park
Just spend 2 days in the jungle - v relaxing in the middle of nowhere. the resort consists of lots of individual wooden huts on slits which are our bedrooms - all wooden with pretty beds covered in mosquito nets - looks quite picturesque. I've been ...
Happy New Year
... of i-phones and such will be drowned today. The bus headed out of Krabi Town and I only relaxed when I saw a sign for Surat Thani, where the train station is located. The countryside on either side of the road was pretty much just dense jungle, and early ...
Sunshine & pretty toes
... so not so alone. We were supposed to be bush camping tomorrow night, but sadly all the rain that fell on Ko Samui also fell on Thailand/Malaysia and so a lot of it is flooded. Rachel has a bit of a challenge on her hands trying to find beds for ...
Humid!!
29/11 Well we boarded the train at 6.15pm for Surat Thani - a 12 hour overnight and the last of our train overnights (thank goodness!!). This was not a good train - very strange and full of little friends - cockroaches!! The beds were ...
Into Thailand, and the Fullmoon
Caught a minibus from our hotel on Penang into Thailand, heading to Hatyai via the Sadao border crossing, it was painless, all organised by our minivan driver. All the other people in our van were heading back to Phuket after a border run to update there ...
Mini Bus, Boat, Big Bus, Train, Ferry and Taxi
... 0700 the next morning to go through a crazy rail checkpoint. You get off with all your bags, clear Thai Immigration out of Thailand, Just like the Airport and then walk around a corner to be presented with Malaysian Customs/Immigration, just like in an ...
At the mercy of jungle critters
... and a million and one insects to deal with. Khao Sok national park is just a couple of hours by bus from Surat Thani. The scenery is spectacular, green everywhere, Karst Mountains covered in thick jungle and the sound of crickets and ...
Koh Samui,charming island at gulf of Thailand
... masjid. Sampai Hua Thanon, saya menemui komunitas muslim dan makan di restoran halal. Penjualnya adalah Thai muslim asal Narathiwat, Thailand Selatan yg bisa berbahasa Melayu. Selain ayam goreng, menu andalannya adalah mie rebus bebek dan ikan pari kecil ...
Leaving the Islands
Our last day on the islands with us due on a ferry at 2pm across to Surat Thani on the mainland, we enjoyed a bit of a sleep in this morning then a swim in front of the hotel, before climbing into the back of the resort ute for a ride down to the ferry ...
The Pirates of Songserm
... company and bus/boat company that we used to take us from Surat Thani to Ko Phangan Island. 1. Do not use Phetcharat Travel in Surat Thani. We had already purchased our combined bus/boat ticket to take us to Ko Phangan but when we arrived at the office of ...
Hat Yai to Surat Thani
A long, long minibus ride to Surat Thani. *megs later comments unfortunatly one of our best bus rides was followed by one of our worst mini bus rides. we drove around in circles trying to pick up more travellers crammed in a sinking hot mini bus with ...
Koh Pha-Ngan to Surat Thani
A quick boatride, and we were back on the mainland, heading north to Bangkok. *megs later comments watch your bags! there's a secrete door on overnight busses that allows the bus staff to get into the luggage compartment. kris got robbed, kev and i ...
More good times on the train
... until it was obvious that we were disturbing the peace of the car a little too much so I went off to bed and woke up around 6 when the train was just pulling into Surat Thani. Said goodbye to my British/Scottish/Canadian/Kiwi friends and off I went. ...
On the train to Surat Thani
... first. I asked the attendant if he would wake us for Surat and he said yes, although I'm not sure he understood anything except 'Surat Thani'. Another thing about Bangkok, I had read of all the dogs but hadn't really known what to expect. On the ...
Oops Thai Did It Again
... trepidation as we knew the budget and accommodation this time round were going to be significantly different.However the fir st night in Thailand was perhaps one of the best "bushcamps" we have had to date. We pulled up roughly 80kms from Bangkok in a ...
Flying through the floods
We wake up to take the 7 am ferry. The Manchester girls said they'd be there as well, but we weren't sure they'd make it. They weren't keen on flying out and wanted to take a bus, so Michael and I decided that we would probably have enough time to go see ...
Exploring the jungle in luxury!
Another over night train (and definately the worse one) we arrived in Surat Thani, from here we drove in to Khao Sok national park - full of jungle and lakes. The first night we stayed in luxury tree houses (complete with branches going through the ...
Koh Tao
Travelled far to get to Koh Tao: longtail to Ao Nang, minivan to Surat Thani (including complimentary crazy man who liked to talk, sing and make noises while driving) then night boat to Koh Tao which consisted of a row of mattresses on each side of the ...
Nothing much, just a quick update. :)
Ok so its been a while, while at the same time, no time. We probably should have put something up about our new life sooner but the couple of months have allowed us get a grip on our new surroundings and let it get its grips into us. We haven't ...
One of the most spectacular places I have been
... kill as we wait for the overnight train to Bangkok.We have just been to one of the most spectacular places we have seen in Thailand. It is actually man made, a huge dam in the National Park. It was formed in the 80's, several villages are now ...
Day 6 Lang Suan to Surat Thani 127km (631km)
We woke up today in pouring rain! We had our longest day and we set off in pouring rain, very tough conditions as we had a long ride in the worst possible conditions.The spray off the road made us very muddy and dirty! We also had a number of hills to ...
Into the wild
... Khao Sok, regnskógi sem er eldri og víđfermdari en Amazon og varđ til 1982 viđ stóra stíflugerđ til ađ sjá Surat Thani og fleiri bćjum fyrir rafmagni. Ótrúleg fegurđ sem blasti viđ okkur, stórir snarbrattir klettar ţaktir stórum trjám ...
Our last sleeper train :(
... finally arrived at the bus station. The bus left at 12:00 for Surat Thani. At 16:00 we arrived in the middle of a town (not Surat Thani) and told to get and that he train station was over to the right. We eventually found it and booked two top bunk second ...
This morning my lips were cleaned by a wrasse!
A wrasse you say! Yes, a cleaner wrasse. They are little fish that are part of the underwater spa team. They eat all the "stuff" off of the other marine life. They can be pesky! One kept following me around during one dive, pecking at my lips! And it ...
Ben's First Day of School
He Says: I've had a few "first day at work" days, like most of us, but nothing can beat my first day as a teacher. I have never been so nervous or terrified in my life! And of what? Of kids, little kids. I walked into the class not knowing what was ...