 | the temple
2004-09-11, pai, Thailand. By: lomotravel | | after wasting another day sitting at villa de pai with the italians and the girls the slight need to justify being awake came in the shape of a short motorbike ride to a temple viewpoint. mauro, an is... |
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| monsoon madness
2004-09-10, pai, Thailand. By: lomotravel | | today i woke up to rain, again. the sky cleared for an hour and we rented motorbikes and drove, myself, heidi, marco, mauro and a thai girl, to the hot springs of pai. the scenery was unreal, so green... |
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| pai
2004-09-08, pai, Thailand. By: lomotravel | | three days of night markets, cheap dvds, reunions and lots of good food and the call to leave arrived. to the bus station, on the bus (the public one), over the gorgeous hills, mountains, valleys, WW2... |
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| mellow yellow and ting tong
2004-09-09, pai, Thailand. By: lomotravel | | three days have passed in pai, lazy lazy days, nothing more than a day reading, walking and nights drinking and talking. we met marco and mauro on the bus from chaing mai and they have become friends,... |
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 | Goodbye Samui Hello Bangkok
2004-09-13, bangkok, Thailand. By: savster | | So Our last week in Samui went a little like this,late to bed ,late up a bit of sunbathing,Got invited to the Simians annual Extravaganza (the simians is the Ko Samui rugby club)which turned into a mo... |
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| chiang mai and reunions
2004-09-05, chiang mai, Thailand. By: lomotravel | | arriving early, after the nightmare of the night bus, and tucked under sheets for the remainder of the morning my sister and i left the room at midday. first stop was a shopping mall to check internet... |
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| screaming israelis and drunk italians
2004-09-04, udon thani, Thailand. By: lomotravel | | furiously tired i woke up for my 11 o'clock meeting with nori. after a quick breakfast we headed by local bus to the buddha park near the friendship bridge. it took about 1 hour to get there, passing ... |
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| welcome to the jungle
2004-09-04, ko samui, Thailand. By: savster | | Well our accomodation crisis is now a thing of the past,we decided where we were was a good deal after all.
So we have had quite a lazy week,Pam was one sick puppy on monday night,but come tuesday ... |
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 | Weekend Ventures
2004-09-01, Bangkok, Thailand. By: rande | | Ed and I are taking full advantage of our weekends and trying to venture out to new areas. This past weekend we went to the famous Khao San Road where you will find all the backpackers. It’s quite a... |
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| Group trip
2004-08-05, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: rande | | Ed and I took a 3 day trip to Kanchanaburi which is where you would find the Bridge over the River Kwai. It’s east of Bangkok - a 2 hour drive. 10 teachers rented a van and hired a driver for the du... |
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| bangkok baby
2004-08-19, bangkok, Thailand. By: lomotravel | | so i return to bkk. a lightning storm greeted me, kinda scary watching on my screen in the plane as the flight landed the way the plane was shaking and trying to line up with the runway..... sometimes... |
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| out & about
2004-08-30, ko samui, Thailand. By: savster | | Well its into week 3 now,and today we are going to try and get some new accomodation,not that we are bored with where we are ,but we just fancy a change of scenery.We got ourselves a wee scooter or th... |
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| ko sumi rocks
2004-08-23, ko samui, Thailand. By: savster | | Well after waiting around singapore airport for a few hours you can imagine our shock when we saw what would be our plane.a rickety old thing with proppellers,now not being the greatest flyer at the b... |
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 | Chiang Mai Thai Cookery School
2004-08-19, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: wts | | Our main itinerary in Chiang Mai is the 5 day cooking course we booked with the Chiang Mai Cookery School. The course includes 6 dishes daily, free pick up and drop off and the best bit…you eat everyt... |
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 | Bangkok to Chiang Mai
2004-08-18, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: wts | | Being the full blown tourists we were, we had to do the Bangkok to Chiang Mai train trip. Nowadays, airfares are pretty much only 50baht more than the 1st class train tickets. Plane takes 1 hour, trai... |
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 | Ayuthaya
2004-08-15, Ayuthaya, Thailand. By: wts | | As we wanted to explore the old Thailand but didn’t want to stay overnight in a dodgy town, we joined up on a tour for Ayuthaya. The tour is with River Sun Cruises which includes a visit to Bang-Pa In... |
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 | Floating Markets
2004-08-14, Bangkok, Thailand. By: wts | | We signed up for a tour to the floating markets. It was at a promotional rate of 499baht per person which was pretty cheap, and the fact that we couldn’t be bothered doing it independently. The only b... |
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| A Day in the Life of Ed and Rebecca
2004-08-16, Bangkok, Thailand. By: rande | | No vacations this time to report. Our next big break is in October and our plan is to head to Singapore. We will report on that later. We have been asked a fair bit about our school and about what ... |
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 | Bangkok and the lady boys!
2004-08-12, Bangkok, Thailand. By: wts | | We arrived in Bangkok without accommodation for the night. It was 12th August, the Queen’s 72nd birthday and a public holiday…great!! All the hotels were booked out, the Thai people love their royalty... |
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 | James Bond Tour
2004-08-11, Krabi, Thailand. By: wts | | We sign up for the infamous James Bond 3 in 1 tour, though ours said 4 n 1, but I don’t know where the extra activity came from as we only had 3 things. The activities included an elephant trek at a ... |
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 | Ao Nang Beach
2004-08-09, Krabi, Thailand. By: wts | | We checked into Andaman Sunset Resort which is on the main beach strip. The place is undergoing renovations on the restaurant in the front and it looked real messy. But the rooms are fine, we got an a... |
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| Penang to Krabi
2004-08-08, Krabi, Thailand. By: wts | | We purchased a minibus ticket from the ticketing office next door to Hong Ping. It was a Penang to Krabi ticket and we would make our own way to Ao Nang Beach. He told us the trip would take 7hrs…bull... |
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 | Chiang Mai and Phuket
2004-08-11, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: kelen | | Chiang Mai and Phuket
Leaving Bhutan by Druk Air (their national carrier), we had few choices other than heading back to Bangkok. But our return to Thailand gave us the opportunity to see some othe... |
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 | Liz swims with Nemo
2004-08-06, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: liazbiatch | | Just a quick update to let you all know that yes, I have gotten my lazy bum off the hammock and I have moved on to a new adventure. After the Full Moon Party (any party that encourages people to drin... |
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