 | Thailand, Krung Thep
2005-08-30, Bangkok, Thailand. By: fiach | | Today we visited the Grand Palace, the old official residence of the Thai royal family, after which we took a boat trip along the Chao Praya river where we saw a consideratly more modest Bangkok.
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 | Thailand, Bangkok
2005-08-29, Bangkok, Thailand. By: fiach | | After a rather sleepless flight the City of Angels has greeted us with a bag of mixed feelings - from extreme jetlag to extreme chaos. Not having slept one hour on the flight we endeavoured to explore... |
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 | Simple Pleasure in Khao Lak
2005-08-28, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: adamsteph | | We have told you before how small, and basically depressing Khao Lak is, so I am sure you all must be wondering what we must do for fun, and how we keep our sanity in a town that doesn't have much goi... |
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 | Mozzie War Begins
2005-08-25, Chaiyaphum, Thailand. By: incaqueen | | I'm scarred from the war. It's simply a losing battle with the mosquitoes here...they breed everywhere. In the toilet. In the kitchen. In the water tank. In the drains. And they are everywhere. In m... |
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| Random thoughts from Thailand……..
2005-08-25, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: adamsteph | | They have the best signs here, the ones written in English. One we saw the other day at the Lampi waterfall was, “Don’t Diving”. I love it. I used to think I wanted to correct all the English signs un... |
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 | Motorcycle Diaries in Nanongtum
2005-08-22, Chaiyaphum, Thailand. By: incaqueen | | Inspired by Che Guevera, I finally learnt how to ride a motorcycle for the first time! Yahoo!!!
On the way to the "waterfall", Sunny taught me how to use the clutch, brakes, accelerator, all in TH... |
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 | Life in Thailand's countryside
2005-08-21, Chaiyaphum, Thailand. By: incaqueen | | Familiar scene in every class:
Stand Up, please!
Good morning, teacher!
Good morning everyone, please sit down. I am Aajarn(teacher) Jo from Singapore......
I survived my first week as a farang ... |
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| What has been going on!
2005-08-17, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: adamsteph | | Hello everyone, just a quick note to update you on where and what we have been up to.
We spent last weekend in the Phuket province relaxing on the beach. We went to an area called Kata beach. Its w... |
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 | The beach and buckets
2005-08-13, Ko Phi Phi, Thailand. By: roh | | Phi Phi
If there is such a thing as God then Phi Phi is his private holiday house! Well at least it would be if it wasn't for all the other tourists there. Limestone cliffs rising 2-300 feet out of... |
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 | bvy tio to Phuket!
2005-08-12, Kata Beach, Thailand. By: adamsteph | | We took a bvy tio (fun trip) to Phuket last weekend with our friends Ann from Alaska and Jessica from Melbourne, Australia. Ann has rented a car for a month, so we crammed into her tiny automobile an... |
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 | (Sex)-Capital of Thailand
2005-08-15, Bangkok, Thailand. By: chrisdevon | | Well we have arrived, flights were fine. Hotels excellent/bearable(cheers pops). Sex shows await - just kidding mum and dad! Bangkok is hustling and bustling without ur help but we hope to add to it.... |
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 | English Camp sanook mai kah?
2005-08-14, Khorat, Thailand. By: incaqueen | | "All the BANANAS in the world.....UNITE!"
"Peel! Banana! Peel! Peel! Banana! Shake! Banana! Shake, shake! Banana! Go! Banana! Go, go! Banana! GO!"
I have to teach everyone this song when I come ba... |
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| Home of Volunthai
2005-08-10, Khorat, Thailand. By: incaqueen | | Sawasdeekah!
Im alive n well in Khorat, living in the Volunthai House and trying to avoid any mosquito bites just in case I get Dengue! Rainy season does make the mozzies go wild around here...the... |
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| What we have been up to.........
2005-08-08, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: adamsteph | | Hey everyone. Just a quick note to let you all what we have been doing.
Today, we were lucky enough to go to one of the construction sites that is being mananged by the Tsunami Volunteer Center, an... |
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| Tsunami Survivor
2005-08-08, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: adamsteph | | Last night we met a woman from England named Lucy. She has been here about a week, and will be staying for another week to help out with some of the Tsunami Volunteer Center's Projects. I found out ... |
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 | things are getting funner!
2005-07-02, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: dreayh | | This is my 10th day in Khao Lak and its been awesome so far. I was really lonely the first 3 days and I missed home so bad but on the saturday right after I did my 1st update, things just picked up. A... |
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| the first weekend
2005-06-25, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: dreayh | | I'm doing this update from khao Lak, thailand. The weather here is so damn hot, although the beach is just near by. Its the saturday here and i don't have to work, and yet, its too hot for the beach a... |
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 | Shock to the system
2005-08-07, Phuket, Thailand. By: roh | | Well its been a week in Thailand already and what a week!! Had 2 fun days in Bankok...from the airport week went straight to Ko Sahn road (backpacker central) and were on the turps by about 10am with ... |
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| First Week of School a Success!
2005-08-05, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: adamsteph | | We just finished our first week at Thung Ma Phrao school, a secondary school located about 20 minutes south of where we are living. Our school is considered one of the better and nicer schools in thi... |
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| Settled into Khal Lak
2005-08-02, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: adamsteph | | We arrived into Khao Lak on Saturday, and have gotten settled into a small bungalow which we will call home for the next month or so. Our bungalow is small, but clean with nice tile floors and newer ... |
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| Last Day in Thailand
2005-08-01, Phuket, Thailand. By: cmccarthy | | Today is our final day in Thailand. We depart Phuket tonight for Bangkok, then its waiting at the airport for a few hours for our flight to Japan. We have enjoyed the beaches of Thailand and got to ... |
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 | What goes in and where it comes out
2005-07-30, Phuket, Thailand. By: adamsteph | | We thought we would make a few posts every now and then about day to day life in Thailand. And, what better way to start than to tell you about the food, and of course, since I know several of you ar... |
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| Phi Phi Island
2005-07-28, Ko Phi Phi, Thailand. By: adamsteph | | We spent 4 wonderful days on Phi Phi, and island in the Andaman sea that was more or less destroyed by the tsunami. Phi Phi (pronounced pee-pee), is a gorgeous island, with clear water, soft sandy be... |
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