Following our sightseeing tours of Bangkok, we have been having a look at some of the surrounding area of central Thailand as well as looking at some of the more unusual areas of the capital itself.  Using Bangkok as our base we ventured to the former capital of Thailand, a place called Ayuttaya about an hour and a half to the North....

"What's going on?  They just sent us one of these..."  I know, I know...but we have our own laptop and free internet in our room. A very packed and public-transportation-filled day in Bangkok, which is still a largely polluted and fairly smelly city.  We got up bright and early (largely due to jet lag), and headed down to a nearby...

So I came back to bangkok to do a few errends like mail my stuff and buy a new camera (mine has issues). I decided to stay A bit off the Kho San this time and got a room easily, it looked like a bit of a prison cell, but thats ok, it was about $6 with an attatched bath. I was super excited to have some pad thai that night and then watched a movi...

(spanish and english) Hoy a las  9:30 ) he aterrizado en Bangkok despues de 11 horas de vuelo interminable, y con un desfase horario de 7 horas. Todo el dia con Tuk Tuk arriba y abajo por 20 Bhats (50 centimos), para buscar el hostal (Rajata Hostel) y he encotrado una habitacion con espejos por todas partes y aire acondicionado por 8 euros&...

On our first day we took the famous Tuk Tuk (three wheeled motorcycle) to see parts of the city. It was a hot and muggy day (36 plus humidity). Our first destination was the Grand Palace, since that was something that niether Mom or Ela had seen in their few days here. Unfortuntaly it was a a special day and it was closed when we arrived for an ...

New Year's Without a Bang I'm sure most of you have heard by now that some bombs went off in Bangkok on New Year's Eve. I can assure you that myself and all of my part are just fine. And there is a good reason for that. Well, okay, the REAL reason is that none of us were near the area where the bombs went off. But the OTHER reason is that, to so...

Sawadee kaab!   Nach dem Faulenzexzess in Koh Samet gings nach Bangkok, einer der asiatischen Partymetropolen. Ich kam am Busbahnhof an und fragte gleich mal einen der Infoheinis, was ein Taxi zum Hostel kostet. Der sagte mir 60-70 Baht und er hielt mir eins an. Dies sollte der Auftakt zu einer unendlichen Geschichte voller Aergernissen mit...

9/8/06- The weekdays have become the calm before the storm. I have to adjust to the life of luxury of 4 days of class and 3 days of travel. This week there has not been much activity on my part because, i have finally fallen to traveler's sickness. I thought that it wasnt going to happened and i had become bolder and began eating items from stre...

Thailand is a fairly large country with many different cultures, scenery and attractions. If you plan your schedule carefully you can cover most of these on your first visit to the Kingdom. The main question is how? Although a lot of this depends on how much time you have there are many mistakes people make on planning their visit so they miss o...

so yey!! i'm here!! it only took 17 and a half hours on the plane, and a quick motor scooter taxi ride (quick = not at all quick) and we're staying at a place for $4 a night!! you guys should all move here!!! more to come, just wanted to say hi!! (and that there are little tiny lizards everywhere on the walls and such....but mostly hi)