 | Elise last night
2004-12-01, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: craisen | | LOT, ELISE, HANS, CLAIRE AND I MET UP that evening to go to the night bazaar, which was like most any other tourist-targeted market selling the usual wooden carvings, textiles, Che Guevarra t-shirts a... |
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 | Whingeing Down The River
2004-11-30, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: craisen | | Of the many uses of bamboo -- panda food, decoration and crafts, scaffolding for Hong Kong skyscrapers -- one of the most fun is raft making. When I originally heard that Day Three of my northern Thai... |
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 | Pineapples and Four-Legged Friends
2004-11-29, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: craisen | | THE DAY STARTED at the breakfast table. All of us were having our eggs, toast, teas and coffees -- minus Nick who slept in after complaining he didn't get much sleep the night before -- when an old wo... |
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 | Facing Fears On The Non-Tourist Trek
2004-11-28, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: craisen | | The standard tour that everyone seems to do out of Chiang Mai is a three-day excursion of trekking, elephant riding and rafting, offered by every tour agency, hotel and guesthouse in town. The funny t... |
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 | Recipe for Chaos
2004-11-27, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: craisen | | Take one thousand rice paper lanterns, hundreds of floating flower boats and stir in a whole bunch of firecrackers and other pyrotechnics. Add fire and bring to a high heat.
Soon after cooking clas... |
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 | The Occidental Tourist
2004-12-02, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: craisen | | This text was taken from Erik's website about his travels around the world. Erik was travelling with me for about 6 days in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
If you want to see pictures from this day and more st... |
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 | Bangkok - asian metropolitan adventure
2005-06-18, Bangkok, Thailand. By: hmakwana | | It's 20.28, we went to the Weekend Market today in Chatuchak (we've got the hang of the sky train now, and got ourselves a day pass!!) Anyway, the market was weird, crazy and smelly!! There were also ... |
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 | end of a century (feels like it.....)
2005-06-14, bangkok, Thailand. By: lomotravel | | the curtains are drawn, the stars are extinguished and for a short second fear becomes the presiding liquid running through my veins. ten months, ten MONTHS of travel/work/photographs/friends/panic/ne... |
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| the concrete jungle
2005-06-05, bangkok, Thailand. By: lomotravel | | bangkok days have slipped into unconsciousness... can't remember the days... stay in malls for the AC and spend hours playing heidi on soccer games... eating at trajai's steak house... hanging out wit... |
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| back in the big city
2005-05-29, bangkok, Thailand. By: lomotravel | | a cab brought us all the way to suan lum night bazaar although the freeway was more of a parking lot in parallel. we perused t-shirts and oddities, had a small bite to eat, a touch of beer and then he... |
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| rayong.....rayong
2005-05-25, rayong, Thailand. By: lomotravel | | the speed boats arrived early on the sunstretched beach. we loaded in, sped off, were back at rayong, collapsed into vans and sped off to another resort down the road which offered better accomodation... |
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| the island pt. 2
2005-05-24, rayong, Thailand. By: lomotravel | | night collapsed around us. the sun slept, the beaches rested as the tide overlapped and became a comforting blanket. the wind stilled.
the four of us walked down to the main road behind the beach a... |
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| the shits and the island
2005-05-24, koh samet, Thailand. By: lomotravel | | my stomach woke me up gurgling and angry. i had my first bout of diarrhoea in a loooong time. glad that this was the day we were leaving too, 3 hours in a tiny mini- van (what joy!), we piled out into... |
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| wayne&lori
2005-05-23, rayong, Thailand. By: lomotravel | | lee guest house served its purpose. a cab did the rest. moments later we were at the avana hotel, lori sitting in the lobby.. hugs.. reunion.. joy.. she showed us to our rooms, stole heidi, i waited i... |
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 | Mandarin Hotel Bangkok
2005-06-18, Bangkok, Thailand. By: doenarjan | | I have never been in a hotel before with so many rules, and papers you have to sign. Really they should give you an quick reference card so you know al the rules in the hotel. But we shouldn't complai... |
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 | Alcoholic buckets and the Hilton Hotel
2005-04-30, Bangkok, Thailand. By: FrancesK | | After some last minute shopping in Chiang Mai (I finally found The Killers CD, yay) and a quick frappochino from MY Starbucks store it was onto the overnight train for Bangkok. I somehow managed to ge... |
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 | Finally arrived,
2005-06-16, BANGKOK, Thailand. By: hmakwana | | FINALLY STARTED OUR TRAVELS, 1ST STOP BANGKOK. THE OVEN LIKE RUSH OF HEAT HIT OUR FACES AS SOON AS WE EXITED THE PLANE. Bangkok is an extremely vibrant city, despite the crowds and pollution. Grand pa... |
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 | Hilltribe trek and the Golden Triangle
2005-04-24, Chiang Rai, Thailand. By: FrancesK | | It was onto Chiang Rai for the start of our trek through the northern hill tribes stopping first for lunch at the PDA restaurant called Cabbages and Condoms (the PDA is a NGO that is trying to educate... |
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 | Tsunami work in Khao Lak
2005-06-10, Pattaya, Thailand. By: gabrielle2 | | Hi from Thailand!!
I have now been in Thailand for the past week and a half. We spent the first 3 days in Bangkok, orientating to the culture, language, and religion. We headed into downtown Bang... |
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| Advanced Diving
2005-06-09, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: doenarjan | | Hi Everybody! Everything is going allright here. Diving, diving and diving... They are looking very strange when we tell them we want to do four dives a day. Lazy people...
The weather is picking u... |
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 | day 1-2
2005-06-05, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: doenarjan | | Paradise!!! We arrived at Samui yesterday and we would stay for 2 days but NO Mr. Van den Berg wanted to leave Samui so he can go diving one day earlier... No problem, so now we are at Koh Tao and sti... |
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 | The real paradise!
2005-05-17, Hat Khuad, Thailand. By: tcassie | | Bottle Beach (Hat Khuad) is a beautiful beach in the North East of Ko Pha Ngan, only accessible by boat. We arrived here and fell in love with the place pretty much straight away. A georgeous beach,... |
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---ko-pha-ngan-thailand.jpg) | Our first stop in Ko Pha Ngan
2005-05-03, Haad Yao, Thailand. By: tcassie | | Upon arrival at the dock in Ko Pha Ngan, we were inundated with offers of accomodation and taxi rides to everywhere. After a few quick negotiations we were off on our way to some resort that was look... |
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 | Goodbye Ko Tao!
2005-05-01, Ko Tao, Thailand. By: tcassie | | The rest of our week in Ko Tao was spent in much the same way. Relaxing on the water in our lilo's. It really is the best way to spend a day at the beach.
There was a huge selection of bars and... |
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 | Malaysia
2005-05-31, Krabi, Thailand. By: gonzoaaron | | Krabi has some extremely beautiful places. At Hat Phra Ngan beach, there is a giant thing of limestone out in the water. It is incredible. On West Hat Rai Leh, it is so amazing. I could go back to the... |
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