Cholchan Resort Pattaya

... so I was able to get some cultural info. Apparently all Thai people that have a house, have a gooseberry bush in the front of the house & a Jack Fruit tree in the back. The gooseberries bring good luck & the Jack Fruit symbolizes security. Only Thai people can buy land, foreigners can only buy condos. Thailand is a huge manufacturing country. They produce all the car & truck parts for Toyota’s and assemble the ...

... was much clearer than where I live but there was still trash in it.  We also witnessed a baptism to and older Chinese woman. which was pretty cool. One note about the beach: I will never understand why Thai's wear their clothes swimming and not a bathing suit.<br><br>After our relaxing we got back on the ferry to the mainland to catch a bus that would bring us to Pattaya. Unfortunately all the space on the outside of the boat was occupied so Katie and ...

Well, guess what! I'm going to Pattaya at the end of the month to help write the national English exams. Go figure. P'Noon is going and invited me to come along. The kids will come, too, just to sightsee.<br><br>Pattaya is about 3 hours south of Bangkok in the Chon Buri province, on the Gulf of Thailand. Not terribly far from where I taught when I was here in 2006. <br><br>Pattaya would be well known among the Vietnam Vet crowd as it was "the" place to go ...

... and have s*x condom-consciously upstairs in one of the specially provided rooms of the Go-Go bar. A stupid red colored note of 500 baht and all that would have been his...<br><br>With all the beer in his gut and the alcohol doing a good job on his Farang brain where erotic scênes compete with the aftereffects of all the consumed of cold Chang beer, he would have been a good catch fore any lady on the boulevard, easy money to pay for the honey!!!<br ...

... open air bars, go go's, restaurants, live music, street performers, etc can all be found here. It definitely reminds me of Soi Bangla in Patong, only bigger. We went to a few go go bars (equivalent of a strip club in Canada, only way better). Anna gets noticeably bored at go go's, she also doesn't appreciate that most of the working girls think she is a "bar girl" too. Quite a few would ask her where i picked her up! I told her not to get too offended, a ...

... it to the Jak2Jak Market in Bangkok. I bought some incredible bone china for a steal... you are welcome Mom! Bangkok is easy to get around with the Sky Train and MRT accessible almost anywhere. We stayed at the Shangri-La in Bangkok. I must recommend the Horizon Club Executive Suite... comes with it's own 30 sqm balcony over looking the Chao Praya River! The trip is over but will be in our memories forever!

... catch up. She is a lovely girl and we treated her for dinner as a way of saying thank you for letting us stay. We mat J and Carlean in town after dinner and went out for the night. One cannot but comment on how different this place is compared to anywhere else I have been. Tons and tons of old men floating around with young Thai women. Had a good night though. Roinn took us to a go go bar which again was quite an experience. Basically all I can ...

... roads.. down there it was a sea of people and open back trucks with people throwing water everywhere and they also wipe clay on your face, hair, body - anywhere they can.. so you're not only wet but covered in clay too! I got a day off mid week to join in the celebrations and it was absolutely crazy, i really have never seen anything like it before... ! I just wish i had a waterproof camera so i could have taken photo's as I really can't explain how mad it all was ...

... 30 km from Pattaya, a beach resort. Think Niagara Falls meets Bangkok with a very long beach instead of a very big waterfall. Where we are is very nice- we have a FRIDGE AND a FREEZER! Woohoo! Icecream! So far we have treated 4 puppies and a couple of adults for skin problems- ticks, mites, eye problems... We are also treating a dog with appalling & horribly infected wounds :( and will be carrying out castrations etc over the next ...

... pastel and we passed by many rickety shanty houses, dogs eating scorpions. I thought scorpions because of the cautious nature of the dogs flicking their prey into the air with their teeth, and besides it adds so nicely to my description of the scene... they were scorpions in my mind... I was left with complete darkness out of the window and only my bacardi &amp; coke and music for company 24th January Arrived in Bangkok at around 7am. Just before Bangkok it was bizarre to see the back of ...