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Thailand Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Thailand
Sukhothai
This is a top pick! ... temples and ruins there. About 1000 years ago the Thai people started moving from (what is now) China into (what is now) Thailand. By 700 years ago they had established a Siamese kingdom under the leadership of the 1st Thai King, King Ramkamhaeng with ...
Dung Energy
This is a top pick! ... been amply demonstrated by the global fossil fuel market's wild mood swings over the past year, not to mention the fact that Thailand is a net importer of petroleum, spending some 400 billion baht a year on energy. Living in remote Tambon Mae Yao, 25 ...
Miscellaneous Thailand Pictures
This is a top pick! Some pictures from Thailand. Most are recent. Some were taken by Alex and one by ...
From Enemas to Anenomes via Nemo
This is a top pick! ... turned thirty decided to take a SCUBA diver instructors course and on qualifying moved to Phi Phi off the west coast of Thailand where he stayed for two years working as an instructor, before meeting his girlfriend, Saffy, also a diver and accomplished ...
Island Hopping in Thailand
This is a top pick! ... . Well, we haven't really done anything since Egypt to deserve another beach vacation, but we got one anyways! Coming into Thailand by overnight train, we also had to take an overnight boat from the mainland to the islands in the Gulf of Thailand ...
The Movie "The Beach"
This is a top pick! The Phi Phi Islands between the large island of Phuket and the western Andaman Sea coast of the mainland. Ko Phi Phi Don meaning "island" in the Thai language is the largest island of the group, and is the only island with permanent ...
Pictures of Kanchana
This is a top pick! Attached is some pictures of Kanchana when she was a child / young woman. She grew up in Chaiyaphum and used to take care of buffalo as a young girl. She then moved to Bangkok to live with her aunt and go to school. She has lived here since then ...
Doi Suthep- Part XII: The Breakthrough
This is a top pick! When was the last time you looked inside your heart and said It's beautiful here....? My breakthrough at Wat Phra That Doi Suthep happened on Sunday afternoon, about eight hours into Determination. It came after a solid ...
Week Sixteen - Chiang Mai and Mae Hong Son Loop
This is a top pick! ... , stopping off at a couple of waterfalls and a Wat on the way to the summit. Doi Inthanon is the highest point in Thailand at about two thousand six hundred metres. Take wrong turning and find we are heading over the mountains direct to Mae Hong Son ...
The Enema Within
This is a top pick! ... Koh Samui and we were well and truly ready to head for the quieter, less developed island of Ko Lanta off the west coast of Thailand for three weeks of relaxation (as if we haven't had enough). If you've read this far I'm afraid your lunchbreak's over, ...
Motorcycle road trip
This is a top pick! ... confused as a local. Someone thought I was a German schoolteacher. That works. One of the things I like about Thailand is that when someone asks where you're from (both locals and tourists), they really mean it. People are from ...
Doi Suthep- Part II: The Meditation Game
This is a top pick! During my first two weeks at Wat Phra That Doi Suthep, I spend somewhere between six and seven hours a day practicing meditation. Teacher starts me off with fifteen-minute intervals of both walking and sitting. I do these sessions back to ...
Oh where to start!!
This is a top pick! ... went to Bangkok to buy a new laptop because my other one is broken -thank god it's insured although we have lost a stack of photos from Thailand and all my music!!! We had some great photos of Koh Tao but have lost them all now and we haven't got round to ...
Week Twelve - Ko Phangan and Ko Tao
This is a top pick! ... all day. Peter gets up to watch England match with Marty and the owner of the resort whos best mate is the King of Thailand's son. Force a couple of pints down and eventually return to room at 10. Nicola reading. Pack ready to leave tomorrow. Have enjoyed ...
Ko Lanta
This is a top pick! We wake up slowly and make our way to the pier to hop on a boat to Ko Lanta. On the way, I get a more clear view of just how bad the tourism destruction is as the beach is lined with chairs 3 or 4 rows deep here. The boat ride is sunny and ...
Ko Lipe
This is a top pick! ... play at best! We snag a speed boat to Ko Lipe, which has been touted by the locals as the most beautiful area of Thailand. We chill on beach after finding a resort to stay at and Lauren and I venture out for a sunset kayak while Adi captures ...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of time
This is a top pick! After having decided to go ahead and leave Bangkok the night before, my goal for today was two-fold: buy a ticket on the night train south from Bangkok to Trang and mail the gifts I had bought the day before back to the States, both to have it done and ...
Re-checking jaundice
This is a top pick! "On March 16, 1968, Colburn found 8-year-old Do Ba clinging to his mother's corpse in a ditch full of blood and the bodies of more than 100 people who had been mowed down. Nearly all the victims were unarmed women, children and elderly." From the ...
Gulf of Thailand
This is a top pick! ... ; If there's a good reason for a trip to end, it's for a reprieve from the weather. Pattaya is located along the Gulf of Thailand, along the eastern coast. The area was untouched by the tsunami. The tides were only a foot tall at most. ...
Free Schools training in Fang
This is a top pick! ... is close to where some of the FreeSchools. Many if not most of the kids involved are from Burma and have entered Thailand as unofficial refugees. Other stuff - all is good with baby so far. But Kanchana is due about the same time we'd ...
Riding a 4 wheel buggy thing
This is a top pick! So today we hired a 4 wheel buggy thing (ATV- Ben says it's called) and drove around parts of the island you just can't reach on our nackered old bike. I guess it's kind of like being on a rally bike race track on 4 wheels! I suppose the sensible thing ...
Poy sanglong festival
This is a top pick! Just a few hours from Pai but on a terrible road. The city is covered with the mist all year long. Maehongson gains its nickname of "the City of Three Mists" from the fact that it has dewy mist in the winter, forest fire mist in the summer and rainy ...
Swimming Monkies - Part 2
This is a top pick! ... to Krabi. They are both very nice and they have the required attributes of a partner in my land buying idea. They love Thailand, they are environmentally aware, not greedy and have access to money. OK. We arrange to meet in Krabi. We meet Michael ...
Another border crossing? Ooh yes please...
This is a top pick! ... to Chiang Mai, and we travelled in a really comfortable minibus (with enough seats for everyone- we were in shock). Maybe Thailand does have some compensations. We spent a very comfortable day in Chiang Mai, enjoying the availability of commerial goods, ...
Week Thirteen - Hua Hin
This is a top pick! ... baht per night. Have cocktail in grounds and some satay. Ice cold towels crown it out. Walk along beach. Only beach in Thailand where horses are allowed - we think. Take photo for Sophie. Have dinner in Italian place few beers and back for nightcap in ...
Life in Bangkok
This is a top pick! ... could be far better educated and the world could be a far more intelligent, advanced place. Some thoughts on modernising Thailand. Hmmm, a few days ago at playtime in school, the kids and I were watering our garden that we have planted. ...
Bangkok
This is a top pick! November 21, 04 The flight to Bangkok was a good one. First of all, I sat on the left side of the plane and was rewarded with a final view of the Himalayas. I recognized Everest and a few other peaks.The weather was hazy and cloudy when we left ...
Chiang Rai and extra pics
This is a top pick! Kanchana, the kids (including Khun Yai) came up to Chiang Mai after I finished my volunteer work. We spent some time in Chiang Rai and then looked at the floral exhibition in Chiang Mai before flying home. That was the first time for the kids ...
Visit Pangmapa to see Jaree
This is a top pick! ... for Mae Hong Son. Another beautiful drive and then a night and a morning in MHS. Met an American who "had been everywhere in Thailand". Checked out the markets and gave food to monks with Nick and then back to Chiang Mai where I sent Mark and Nick with ...
Mamma Mia, Here Are My Shades Again
This is a top pick! 27/02/04 - Week 2 on Ko Lanta - Relax Bay Resort We were sad to leave Bamboo Bay, albeit for the fact we were leaving Baan Phu Lae, the resort next door, but we're travellers and another town beckoned (said with a solemn nodding face) so at 11am we ...