Saowaluk Thani Hotel
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Full Moon Party!!
... Hate to say it but I tend to avoid other American travelers because most of the time they suck. I was also by far the oldest person at the party as well, at 26. Everyone else was about 16-22, which made me feel kinda ******, lol.
My friend got a "bucket" which is basically the drink of choice for every tourist on this island. It’s a plastic bucket that is filled with a ½ pint of your alcohol of choice, along with a can of coke and a bottle of “Red ...
How to lose your mind in 10 days...Part 2
... and with no passion. We couldn’t talk but everyone started to look really fed up, people would shuffle around in the meditation hall more than before and there were just a small handful of people that still seemed interested in being here. I wasn’t at rock bottom, I couldn’t see how this would make you hit rock bottom, but I wasn’t enjoying it. My back was in a lot of pain all the way down my spine, my hips were bruised from the concrete beds. I wasn’t as ...
Sok It To Me
... of course. Abi, not so keen, was on camera duty!
We then set off for our accommodation, and arrived there around an hour after. Skirting round a bend of trees in our longboat, the row of bamboo bungalows floating on the surface of the water was slowly unveiled to us, the whole boat was silent as we took in the majestic beauty of where we would be spending the night. It was just as we had hoped for, a wonderfully serene encampment, on the edge of ...
Our last sleeper train :(
... It was unlike any sleeper train we had been on before!! The beds instead of being in compartments were side by side length ways, with a walkway in the middle. The bottom bed converted into two chairs during the day time, the top bed was pulled out of the ceiling (A-I believe it is called a couchette). When we got on we questioned 'where do we sleep', 'how does this work', it was like we had ...
Khao Sok N.P. (or as Gary likes call it, Khao Suk)
... 8 hours of travelling!). Anyway, we finally made it to our guest house, Our Jungle House, after a very long journey, and we were disappointed to say the least with what we were greeted with. The place was a fair way from the main road along a dirt track, so we felt quite isolated. The hut that we stayed in, aptly named Jungle House, was the very definition of basic. There was only one, very dim, working light inside so we had to (and this is no exaggeration) ...