Takua Pa Ranches - Reviews and Rates

It's actually been about a month since I last wrote anything in my poor little blog so I felt it time to sit down and pound away at the old keyboard so I can try and keep this thing up to date and in the NOW. It’s funny how life keeps passing in what seems an increasing speed. How did the first 18 years of life take an eternity and the sec...

McNeill, still on U.S. time, woke up at 4:00 in the morning on Monday, August 17, totally awake. I, on the other hand, slept like a baby until she lost her patience and poked me awake a few hours later. We packed up and headed to the Surat Thani bus station, where we caught a bus to Khao Sok National Park. The friendly and efficient man who sold...

My next destination was Khao Sok National Park south of Bangkok on the peninsula. I wanted to take the train again but unfortunately all the sleepers were sold so I went coach. It was a long long night because I had zero legroom and the seat barely reclined. Oh well. At Surat Thani I got off the train and found the bus west. At the turn-off to ...

Le parc national de Khao Sok, a mi-chemin entre la mer d'Andaman (Ocean Indien) et le Golfe de Thailande) a vraiment de quoi nous reconcilier avec la Thailande du Sud, qui, soyons honnete, nous a bien fait braire jusqu'ici. Que faire a Khao Sok? Pour commencer, c'est nettement nettement moins touristique. Une dizaine de guesthouses eparpillees a...

we stopped of whilst traveling down to Krabi in a town called Suratthani.It was pouring down with rain, and there wasnt much to do there.we checked into the hotel (it was huggge) and although we seemed to be the only guests, our room was located on the 12th floor.it was a bit creepy.then jack was felt up by the gay assistant in the lift.lol.

Back where I started my travels so to speak, as this is the same town I was in January as well, jump-off town to the Rainbow gathering... Only spend one night there before going on the boat to Ko Surin islands. But it was an interesting one, as I was invited to join Tom and Am with some of their friends to funeral feast. This event lasts for 7 d...

time to go on a live aboard boat to go diving in one of the worlds best dive sites. we have the possibility to see whale sharks (largest fish) and giant manta rays. visibility is easily 30-40 meters. lets cross are fingers. in thailand, khao lak was hit the hardest by the 2004 boxing day tsunami. over 4000 people died here and nearly all the bu...

Done the last 2 dives before heading off back to dry land. The last dive was a wreck dive :) COOL!!! some old dredger had sank 10 years ago and was effectively a breeding ground for everything that lived in the sea!. It was also a haven for HUGE JELLYFISH! not cool! :( Dodging the jellies was a nightmare, they were all over the place,..hundreds ...

I was promised Whooping Gibbons in this jungle paradise. The Gibbons were neither whooping nor whopping. This factor (the reason I had made the trek here) aside, I decided that there must be more to jungle life than just those hairy tree swingers, I embarked on a 'Night Safari'. Grand as it sounds, this outing was little more than 3hrs in the da...