Karon Sea Sands Resort & Spa

Travel Blogs from Karon

Planes, trains, and Automobiles

A travel blog entry by brookeandchris

Today turned out to be quite the travel day. We literally spent the entire day in transit from one place to the next. We were up at 4am again today to take a taxi to the Cambodia-Thailand border. We had read everywhere that the Cambodia side of the border is incredibly disorganized and that it was important to get there early in order to avoid the …

Finally, A Day of Nothing

A travel blog entry by brookeandchris

Well, it only took us a solid 4 weeks to get here but we finally made it to the beaches of southern Thailand. We had really sped up a few portions of our trip where we would have liked to have stayed a little longer in order to make sure we had time for the beach and here we are. We had heard and read some pretty rough things about Phuket – …

No more tsunami

A travel blog entry by tmsross

Well I'm on the last leg of my three week trip now and I couldn't think of a better way to end it than to be in Phuket. This is a very large Island, larger than Bermuda, but it has a small island feel to it. The cities are small but not to far from each other so getting around is not much of a problem. The beach I'm at right now is Karon Beach. It …

G'day mate

A travel blog entry by lucyandshane

... English speaking tour guide so I was expecting it) like why is the island Muslim village here, how long has it been here etc. We then head off to 'James Bond' island (man with golden gun filmed here) no significance to me as I hate James Bond films! The small island was absolutely heaving with tourists, there's only a tiny beach and it was filled with bloody stall holders hassling you to buy stuff! We then set off to some large boats moored in the sea where you get guided canoe tours ...

Krabi: adventures in purgatory

A travel blog entry by beckerworldtrip

... small swell that slapped water against the inner walls of the overhang. Around the corner a new bay came into view, lined with white beaches and vertical cliff faces that pronounced the topography of the area, making it only accessible by boat. One of the beaches we found was inexplicably surrounded by boulders made of granite instead of the usual limestone, and I'm still at a loss as to why. We continued another quarter mile and started to look for the most primitive beachside bar ...

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