Grand Thara Hotel Surat Thani
1/144 Thanon Don Nok, Tumbol Talad, Amphur Mueng Surat Thani, 84000, Thailand
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I hope Australia sucks. Come back to Thailand
... Suddenly the roads were soaking wet and the moon vanished. I was worried about heading into a night-time tropical storm but as I carried on it dried up. I figured out how far it would be to the same point, around 400 miles round trip and I still saw nothing that reminded me of the same hotel. In the end I found another of the super-petrol stations with a mall and a hotel. I decided to stay and get some rest, it was the same price, only £10 with free internet and was ...
Chiang Mai, Thailand to Surat Thani, Thailand
... Plus I have NEXRAD radar images on display in the cockpit when I fly in the US so it's pretty easy to fly around the bad stuff. I'm a little spoiled having that technology back home so I miss it out here.
From Chiang Mai I filed IFR at FL090:
VTCC DCT CMA A464 BKK G458 STN DCT VTSB
The significant flooding around Bangkok and the areas north of the capital were really apparent. People had parked their cars on bridges and overpasses to keep them ...
Jungle day 2 and the National park
... bats, spiders, mud and water up to your knees
After the initial panics we waited and squelched (some barefoot like myself) into the deepest caverns and finally back to daylight !
After a further 40 mins on the boat we arrived at a floating hotel and had dinner (rice, curry and fish) and the spent the next few hours swimming and kakking in the lake
The lake was as hot as a bath and with the sun in full flow, this was yet ...
Khao Sok National Park
... our own dry bag. Luckily there was one shop near the jetty which sold dry bags and we are the proud new owners of an ‘Ocean Pack 15’. Sounds fancy!
We were lead to the jetty and onto a long tail boat to start the tour of the lake. The Thai government decided to flood the entire area with water in 1982 using a dam. The result looks incredible with limestone cliffs which rise over 950m above the water level but the guide told us how a village used to be in the area ...
Suckers Of Khao Sok
... a little explore around the area. We rented 2 motorbikes for the afternoon, Jamie with Rick and Lara with Josh. We decided to enter an area of the National Park the other side from the main entrance. About 1 hour later we discover numerous mosquito bites and a jungle full of leeches clinging to us. Lara decided there and then that she had a phobia for these blood sucking slugs and headed back to the main road. Jamie went back also with a leechy ...
This hotel was formerly known as: Siam Thara



