Baan Chaba
Travel Blogs from Kathu
Off to Phuket
... I was staying and off I went!!! The transfers and stuff are really good to be fair...I have always been picked up and taken to where I needed to go so can't complain!!! My hotel was called At Home and it said At Home Two on the leaflet thing....so he dropped me at At Home 2..... Turns out I was wrong....I was at At Home the normal one....which was round the corner....weird. The other couple couldn't find their place either so we were all laughing about it!!! So got to the hotel, ...
Phuket
... keep you strong". It was great to meet him, and I was extremely thankful for his help. I should also tell you that he would not accept any money for his services. He is a cool guy, and part of us wanted to stay, but we were off to Phuket. After the two hour drive, we arrived in Patong Beach on Phuket. Claire found us a great boutique guest house where we each got our own room for 25 bucks a night. The bed was so soft I about passed out when I laid down on it. ...
Thai up the Loose Ends
... Buddhists. This particular sect’s rules seemed really tough, though: number 5 = “avoid intoxication which leads to acts of heedlessness.” Could I ask where’s the fun in that?
KK: The first 4 rules are no picnic either; no killing things, “to abstain from acts of unchastity”, no “speaking false words” and “no taking things that aren’t given” – what you mean you can’t even take the ****? I guess in ...
Monkey hell beach
... the beach we had found was very small, barely enough room for all four of us to stand without bumping into each other. As soon as the reality of the onrushing monkeys sank into our minds, we must have looked like Grateful Dead fans trapped in a Barry Manilow concert. We didn’t know which way to run or how to retreat, kind of like a keystone cop scene with a Tarzan backdrop. The first few monkeys made it to the beach and I started to throw things to drive them away. That ...
Phuket, just relax
... ve had to head south early. Phuket was our first stop. With a cheap flight from Chiang Mai, Lisa and I headed for the tropical lands of Thailand. Phuket is a bustling town with 3 main touristy beaches – Patong, Karon, and Kata beach. We stayed in Kata for the most part and decided that this would be one of our vacations from our trip. I think the last one was in Panama when we stayed in Barqueta beach for the weekend. We stayed in two hotels, ...