Nong Khai Hotels - Reviews and Rates

After landing in Bangkok we succeeded in foiling the taxi mafia and took the cheap & comfortable airport bus to the train station. An interesing ride seen the sun set on such a large and diverse city. After securing our over-night cabin to Nong Khai, we set about killing a few cold brewskies and enjoying some wonderful Thai food, yum. 

Nong Khai is a long thin province running along
the Mekong River, providing the main access to Laos. Originally people went by boat from Tha Sadet, but the building of the Friendship Bridge across the Mekong has made Nong Khai a major centre for transport and trade with Laos. Attractions include Wat Pho Chai, renowned for its large seated Bu...

Friday June 19th. Got Lois off to the airport to head for Kansas. Got ready for our next leg. Joe and Jess arrived from the south and we bought groceries and packed. Saturay morning we headed out for Suhkothai, which is the ancient capital of Thailand. Arrived early afternoon after driving by about a million rice fields. Arranged to stay in a gu...

Stayed here in this small city by the Mekong (close to Vientiane, on the other side ofcourse) in the wonderful GH called Mut Mee GH. It rained for the 2 of the days but on the 3rd I got a bicycle and went to see the amazing Sculpture Park.

An easy ride over the border on the Thai-Laos Friendship bus which crosses the multi-million dollar friendship bridge over the Mekong. this is the main route tourists take to get from Thailand to Laos, easier than the way we did it, but we had an adventure! Easy to see how drugs and people arer smuggled as they didn't check the bus and all the b...

We were there to see the fabled Naga fireballs that rose out of the Mekong River each year on the first full moon of October. Legend was that large serpentine Nagas released them on their travels up and down the river. Others thought they had to be man-made, and that the entire city had been duped for centuries. Neither side managed to prove the...

Sà wàt dii khrap zusammen, das wird heute mein letzter Eintrag aus Thailand. Morgen geht es weiter nach Laos, damit ich rechtzeitig zum dritten Neujahrsfest in Luang Prabang sein kann und dort das buddistische Jahr 2551 beginnen kann. Das wird dann mein drittes Neujahr in vier Monaten. Im Gegensatz zu Thailand, das einen sehr guten und sehr bill...

Well, here I am in Thailand! I've just been soaked cycling through a storm and pooed on by a gecko. Which is nice. First impressions in concise (for a change) bullet point form.......... - They have Tesco here!!!!! Didn't expect to see a Tesco store in a smallish town in the north of Thailand - thought I was hallucinating when I caught a glimpse...

So the match: Intern: St. V's in Worcester Anesthesia: St. E's in Brighton A little different than what I expected, but not a bad outcome at all.

The report card on Vang Vieng turned out as follows: 1) Caves: check; hiked to one in the rain, pretty cool, and very Flintstones 2) River tubing: no check, unfortunately; it looked fun, but the weather was way too ugly (still raining) for ******* (i.e. us) 3) VCDs in restaurants: partial check; restaurant, singular, with an apparent requirement...