Floatel

... facing the ocean... ...fortunately we go out to sea only once a week....staying remaining 5 days alongside.,,,thus the floatel mentioned earlier...floating hotel! :) ....has  my hair shaven to match the local niggers...heheheh...with the hood...i ...

... to pay again. We think he used to be a taxi driver before going into the monkhood.   When we got back to our floatel we threw on some lifejackets and started floating down the river from one end of the floatel to the other. It was a cool, ...

... ! (Not sure there was fine print actually) The trip in was through luxuriant emerald jungle and steep colourful cliffs; the setting of the Floatel very beautiful, and the people, the Mons, were very friendly. Proudly they told us that they are some of the ...

... . Finally we arrived at our destination, our “oasis” on the river Kwai.  I say oasis because our hotel, of floatel as it was called, was a series of rafts tied together and sitting off the banks of the river.  Although there was no ...

... to navigate the length of the city on foot, which certainly couldn't be done in London in a day.  We stopped at the "Floatel" for lunch which is a floating hotel on the Hugli River that runs along the western edge of the city and enjoyed a wonderful ...

... middle of the River. As the sun went down, from the River we saw a beautifully lighted city and Howrah Bridges. We saw the only floatel of India standing over the River. Just imagine a few years back, city had to put up with severe power cuts. Presently, ...

My parents hooked up some pretty sweet places to stay while they were here.  They tended to be about 14 times nicer than what we were used to.  But it was their treat, so we didn't complain.  This particular room was a floating house on ...

Well, after the 13h bus journey from Siem Reap, on a minibus without suspension and on a non-existent road, we arrived back in Bangkok on the eve of the Queen's birthday, which meant that the whole city was lit up with a million lights!  How nice to ...

The hostel we booked in Bangkok turned out to be on the outskirts of the city where mostly Thai people live. We went out to find something to eat but could not find anything that we recognised as a restaurant. After walking up and down for a bit we ...

Udaipur is a beautiful city set on a large lake in southern Rajasthan, with a famous "floating" palace--it's really an island; now a luxury hotel--in the middle of the lake. Octopussy was filmed here (the palace and all over the city/region), and it ...

From Ayuthaya we headed southwest to Kanchanaburi province, bordering Myanmar (Burma).  Our main objective was to visit the bridge on the River Kwai and the Death Railway.  But an added perk was that Kanchanaburi is considered by many to be the ...

Kolkata! Ich habe keine Ahnung wo ich beginnen soll!! Ich bin erst ein paar Tage hier und habe schon so viel erlebt! :) I dont know where to beginn! There was so much happening in the last days! Ich liebe es! I love it! Ich habe gluecklicherweise Shoaib ...

So we set off from bangkok at seven in the morning so we could fit everything in. First stop was and allied forces WW2 memorial which was quite spectacular, then we headed to the war museum and the bridge over the river kwai (which has a long and ...