Bankok is a really cool place to visit... Like i always tell my friends who are planning to go to Thailand... Bankok is where you can get good deals with jewelries... a really good place for ladies who are best friends with diamonds... But that's not all they offer... Bankok is also a place of really delicious food... try the food that the river...

While in Cambodia I purchased a book written by a women who survived the Cambodian civil war. It is very interesting to read as I have been to many of the places she describes in her book. It explains how when the Khmer Rouge took over the country they attempted to destroy many of the temples and killed the monks that lived at them. They killed ...

May the scamming begin!!! A day after flying into the smogs of Bangkok, we dove right into the Asian adventure, being talked into a seemingly "great" deal by a tuk-tuk driver. He would ride us around to the main attractions of Bangkok for only 1 dollar! Doesn't that sound too good to be true? Well yes it was. After every standing or laying ...

Saturday  August 25, 2007 Our first morning in Bangkok.  In Asia, for that matter.  We woke up around 9am and made our way to the hotel cafe for breakfast.  A yummy breakie of chocolate croissant, fresh fruit, and espresso.  Frank went for the eggs, bacon, and toast with espresso.  All for less than $5 USD.  I ...

We left Saigon very sadly. Well, that's not entirely true. We left the suite very sadly! No offence to Saigon, it was great but the suite was magnificent! We'd decided to do the final bit of the tour a day early in case we ran into problems. Having had our dire Shaolin experience I was very concerned that it wouldn't happen again when our flight...

Hope you enjoy the photos from our trip to Thailand in 2004-05!

On Thursday I decided to head back into the fray. Bangkok is an immense city -- over 9 million people spread over 300 square kilometers. It is hot and humid and smoggy and loud and traffic is terrible. I hadn't been prepared for it after coming from relatively sleepy Chiang Mai on the 11th, but this time I was ready! I made sure Nikki had some s...

So the real adventure has now begun - I arrived in Bangkok at 1am in the morning on 16th Jan.  I was expecting to get hassled at the airport but it was very easy.  Whilst at the baggage claim I got talking to 2 guys who were also staying on the Khao San Road, so we split the cost on a cab (and we didn't get ripped off!).  By the t...

In 43 BC Cicero identified the 6 greatest threats to mankind: 1. The delusion that individual advancement is made by crushing others. 2. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected. 3. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we ourselves cannot accomplish it. 4. Refusing to set aside trivial differences. 5. Neglec...

We got up a bit late this morning trying to recoup from last nights flight. Feeling a lot better and refreshed we were ready to explore the city. Before heading out the door we made a "To do list" so we wouldn't forget canceling our hotel in Auckland, calling up aireoplan for our missing air mile points and finding new accommodation. Because we ...