Green World Palace Hotel Songkhla

... spent with friends from Edmonton, would be made impossible. A plan was hatched for Lisa and I to leave the country very briefly and receive another 15 day visa on re-entering while our friends went ahead to Ko Phangang: our third border run in the last year, though the first 2 were to the Canada-US border for my work permits. At the point that our first visa expiring we had planned to be arriving on Ko Tao, an island of the ...

... and had some great objects and displays. We also found a lovely bar to have a drink and watch some guys playing guitars, until I started getting approached by the waitresses who seemed to be offering a little more than just a drink! (Jess here...I found this all highly amusing, especially seeing the slightly terrified look on Danny's face!! He didnt know where to look!) Anyway, we drank up and left after just the one beer...

... the monkeys, they were riding bikes, spinning hula hoops, shooting baskets, as well as gently stepping over selected people from the audience including Kathryn! But perhaps my favorite part was when they brought out the four piece elephant band with keyboards, congas, cymbals, and a go-go dancer! At the end they all came out to dance and they're really good! It was quite the party! Our final week was spent working and getting ready for ...

My Birthday, or as the Filipino's call it "Natal Day". I could not have been more surprised. See the video for my 6am (That's right Paul, Kathy, Lynnette and Terri...6am!!...the big ball of fire thingee wasn't even up in the sky yet!) wake up call! What a very pleasant surprise...I held back tears as long as this 'tough guy ...

... We came back at night for a picnic with Mae and Jove (Charmaine's roommates) and Gi-gi Lov and Ian. We had some good food, played guitar and sang and had some fun at the moons expense.. . (btw..the setting moon was as bright of red as I had ever saw...I hope my ...

... at the top of pole- then leaned out to one side and the kid dropped and was hanging by the guy's outstretched arm! If that wasn't shocking enough, he then dropped the kid! He fell probably 5 feet before being held by a strap that was not seen until that point. An impressive performance- he then pulled the kid back up, and the both climbed down. Being bamboo this pole was still very flexible and was being ...

... Coast of Thailand, where he subsidizes his Australian welfare pension by running an as-yet uncompleted guesthouse. When I arrived on the island late one night to discover there was no affordable lodging available, some Danish backpackers directed me to Mr. Qu. "Tonight you are milking the cow, which is better than a nice hotel" he had told me, showing me a place to lay my sleep sack amid the brooms and paint cans of his semi-constructed guesthouse. The next ...

Hat Yai - A similar story to Singapore and Malaysia with a unique blend of Chinese and Muslim populations, but this one with a Thai difference. Altough located amidst bomb blasts of Muslim seperatives in one of the four problematic provinces in South Thailand, the people there are the friendliest in Thailand! If I was to link this city to any other in Asia, I would choose Johor Bahru in Malaysia. Thai cities ...

Time for a summary... THAILAND SUMMARY Highlights: - Koh Toa life and diving - Chang Mai, Climbing and The Chopper @ GBP 8/Day - Bangkok Ease - Finding The Jungle Club Resort and the aftermath of hiking there in the pitch black. Lowlights: - Tuk-tuk? / Suit Sir? (100th Time) - VIP Bus scam from Bangkok to Chumpon - Chewang over ...

... too, not prime beach but plenty of it, both sea and lake. Being only an hour from the Malay border, Malays come over on weekends and frolic on the beach fully clothed. If I didn’t have business and eventually a wife up north, this might very well have become my home. Oh yeah, it’s the center of the Thai oil industry also, so plenty of ex-pats, but they all have jobs, another anomaly. Like all of Thailand, there’s plenty ...