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Ko Samui too touristy but stunning beaches

A travel blog entry by garybaker

Well my travels have now taken me now over to the Eastern side of Thailand to the island of Ko Samui.

Was sad to say goodbye to Ko Phi Phi on Monday, really enjoyed my stay there and will defiantly return one day. Took the morning ferry across to the mainland to the town of Krabi and then a short flight across the other side of the …

Gotta Love a Visa Run

A travel blog entry by swaplatitudes

Sawadee Ka! ('Hello' in Thai) We survived our first visa run to Malaysia. Some of you may or may not know this, but a visa is required to stay in a country for a long period of time while traveling or working. So, we got our paperwork sorted and it was required that we leave Thailand to get a Thai visa..makes so much sense, doesn't it? We debated going on our own or with company as visa runs are a business and there is a lot of money to be made in it. ...

Silent days, noisy nights.

A travel blog entry by gulliversreisen

... the louder that whisper became.

27.09.12: Last time the bell rang at 04.30 in the morning. Last time we had meditation in the meditation hall and finally silence was officially over.

What I took with me from this week? Thai people can snore really loud and concentrating on one single and actually simple task is really really difficult. The rest I will sort out for myself and won't be placed here on this blog.

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Elephant trekking!

A travel blog entry by laura.bailey

We woke up to clouds. It must still be about 28 degrees plus but it is quite overcast. With sunbathing out of the window we had done breakfast and decided to go see one of the many waterfalls. Luckily the closest one to us is the largest on the island at 35m high. We had a ...

Honeymoon - Episode 2

A travel blog entry by mickandmel

... worse, Mel just wanted to run up and set them free - probably not wise with so many male handlers around, but not something we would do again.

We decided after the elephants we would relax in our private pool before enjoying a romantic open air moonlight dinner looking out over the ocean. There simply couldn't have been a more romantic setting (see the photos!).

Finally availing ourselves of the serenity, we spent our last couple of days on the ...