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Shambara Boutique Hostel Bangkok

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Khao San Rd, Bangkok, Thailand

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Travel Blogs From Travelers at The Shambara Boutique Hostel Bangkok

Exploring Bangkok
Feb 25, 2008

We awoke early due to jet lag, showered and made our way downstairs for the complimentary breakfast. Toast with jam and coffee with some kind of creamy powder, but it did the trick. We then set out to find the closet river pier to our hostel by foot, despite the efforts of the tuk-tuk drivers. After about 20 mins of walking the busy streets we e...

A travel blog entry from Bangkok by mikedevaney
The Beginning in Bangkok
Feb 26, 2008

We arrived at Heathrow well ahead of time with a few teary goodbye's thanks to the Forbes clan. Check in was fine and we managed to catch a few minutes of England coasting to victory in Paris...Once aboard we were seated towards the rear which was fine except there was some raving bald Lithuanian or something who seemed hell bent on speaking to ...

A travel blog entry from Bangkok by mikedevaney
Arriving in bangkok
Apr 3, 2008

finally made it to bangkok after 14-15hrs journey. the flight to dubai was a bit shakin and we had a heavy dose of turbulance wer i thought my drink wud fall over but all was well. Unfortunately problems struck when we landed and the airplane has lost my luggage with it most likely bein in dubai or possible even back to gatwick or evern australi...

A travel blog entry from Bangkok by sammie22
second day of bangkok
Apr 3, 2008

hey people so the second day arrived and we set off quite early... this only due to the fact we woke up and hour early because we put our clocks an extra hour ahaead oops... we headed off for the grand palace along the busy roads of bangkok and managed to get harassed by three different scam tuktuk drivers who tried to tell us the grand palace w...

A travel blog entry from Bangkok by sammie22
second day of bangkok
Apr 3, 2008 (6 photos)

hey people so the second day arrived and we set off quite early... this only due to the fact we woke up and hour early because we put our clocks an extra hour ahaead oops... we headed off for the grand palace along the busy roads of bangkok and managed to get harassed by three different scam tuktuk drivers who tried to tell us the grand palace w...

A travel blog entry from Bangkok by sammie22
End of our stay in Bangkok... bye bye bangkok
Apr 4, 2008

So our last day in Bangkok for a little while any way. This morning Jim arrived which was cool so we showed him around Khoa san road and then decided we needed to book our ticket up to Ayuhuittiya on monday so attempted to takle our way thru the tuktuk men saying "no i take u here" and hailed a taxi who took us to the station. and after all tht ...

A travel blog entry from Bangkok by sammie22
Bright, busy and baking hot bangkok
Apr 3, 2008

So, we're finally here in bangkok. took a while getting through the air port. wasn't quite sure if we needed a visa or not. was a bit confusing as it was badly signed. but got through passport control and got a stamp on my passport. only to get through to baggage reclaim to find only one backpack. which wasn't even on the conveyor belt. it was s...

A travel blog entry from Bangkok by theo_
Second day
Apr 3, 2008 (4 photos)

Today we woke up really early, because we put our clock an extra hour forward when we shouldn't. but had quite an eventful day. We started off wanting to go to the grand palace. but were stopped at least three times on the way there and told that it was closed. yeah right, not falling for that one. we didn't want to go on the tuktuk to the other...

A travel blog entry from Bangkok by theo_
Bye bye bangkok
Apr 4, 2008

Today was our last day in bangkok, after slurging too much money yesterday, we decided to go alot cheaper, which we've manages rather well. to the station and back only cost us 60baht. this was so we could check the train times for when we heaed north next week. however be warned at the station, as there are loads of ppl with "official" looking ...

A travel blog entry from Bangkok by theo_

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