 | Momma Honey
2005-09-25, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: Exploring | | I promised you an explanation of live with "Momma Honey". I met her at the train station, and was whisked off to her guest house immediately. She's this smaller, older Thai woman with big, big glasses... |
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| Cooking Class, Bikes, Serendipity
2005-09-22, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: Exploring | | Today I was feeling plucky, and decided to rent a bicycle. I'm so far the only person in Thailand who bikes with a helmet on. I had to rent this dorky, big scooter helmet. The woman actually said, "We... |
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 | Weirdo Magnets
2005-09-22, Bangkok, Thailand. By: day1 | | Sittin outside one of the streetside cocktail bars lastnight. knew the guy beside us was a freak so therefore knew he was gonna talk to us cos thats what we do. His name was Matt and he has made some... |
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| Weirdo Magnets
2005-09-22, Bangkok, Thailand. By: day1 | | Sittin outside one of the streetside cocktail bars lastnight. knew the guy beside us was a freak so therefore knew he was gonna talk to us cos thats what we do. His name was Matt and he has made some... |
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 | Susan and Nathan go to the zoo
2005-09-21, Bangkok, Thailand. By: thesuhs | | In the morning we enjoyed our free breakfast in the club lounge (the blueberry muffins were delicious) before heading to the lobby to meet Golf at 9:30. Golf is Erik’s new secretary of three months, a... |
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| Bangkok bound
2005-09-20, Bangkok, Thailand. By: thesuhs | | This morning we spent a couple hours at the fabulous Hong Kong airport where we saw the most extensive and exclusive duty-free shopping we have ever seen. We walked around quite a bit, and window sho... |
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| I heart Chiang Mai.
2005-09-20, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: Exploring | | Well, I got the heck out of Bangkok. My salvation came in the form of a rackety, old night train that looked like it had been transported out of the 1960's. 15 hours later after some sleep, a botched ... |
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| Takin' the night train
2005-09-19, Bangkok, Thailand. By: Exploring | | I soon shall be taking the night train (15 hours total) to a city north of Bangkok called Chiang Mai. I got 2 new books (one by Roald Dahl and one by Isabel Allende) to help me with the travel. And, I... |
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| I'm in Thailand
2005-09-18, Bangkok, Thailand. By: Exploring | | Well, after a couple plane rides, I finally arrived in Thailand. It's hot, busy, green, and interesting. I'm staying in Khao San Road, a backpackers area in Bangkok. There are tons of vendors selling ... |
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 | King for a weekend
2005-08-19, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: alexandem | | While life in Thailand is a huge contrast to life in Japan, the strongest memory we have of Thailand is how friendly the people are. Everybody just seamed to have a care-free lust for life.
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 | Sunsets & Sang Som
2005-05-22, Ko Phangan, Thailand. By: pucs_world | | That’s right folks, Koh Phangan! As you travel around Thailand you find that the most asked question, next to the top five introduction questions, is “you going to the full moon party?” So it’s not ... |
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 | Relaxing in Chiang Mai
2005-09-10, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: adamsteph | | We flew back into northern Thailand to a city called Chiang Mai, on September 7, and not a minute too soon. If you couldn't tell from the last post, we really hated Singapore. It is crowded and nois... |
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 | Farewell Nanongtum Students...
2005-09-11, Chaiyaphum, Thailand. By: incaqueen | | It is time to say goodbye...
Unlike the other 3 volunteer teachers before me, I did not shed a tear or got emotional like them giving my farewell speech before the entire school. I doubt I have ti... |
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 | Krabi
2005-09-02, Krabi, Thailand. By: chrisdevon | | After spending 5 nights on Koh Phi Phi and having fallen in love with the island we finally left on Wednesday to come to Krabi. Feeling refreshed and relaxed we left our hotel on the north of the isla... |
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 | Under the Big Blue
2005-09-01, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: roh | | Before you read this please accept my apologies for excessive use of the word 'dive'...
Within 5 minutes of our arrival to Koh Tao we were in a dive shop arranging to do an open water dive course a... |
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 | Pai tiao Tat Tone and Khon Khaen!
2005-09-08, Chaiyaphum, Thailand. By: incaqueen | | A frantic week indeed... not sure if they're making up for lost time but my social life this week is HECTIC! Actually, my social life is not even my own anymore...my teachers plan what I'm gonna be d... |
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 | Thailand, Ko Samui - Chaweng
2005-09-06, Ko Samui, Thailand. By: fiach | | So a tuk-tuk, a night train, a plane, a bus or two, a boat and a taxi later we finally managed to scrape our way down from the north to somewhere almost in the south in just under 24 hours.
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 | Thailand, Chiang Mai Jungle
2005-09-05, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: fiach | | Cool, cool, cool. We're back from the trek. Not to be barriered by border and language difference our eclectic group - South Korea, Tawain, Spain, Germany, NL and IE of course - set out to share that ... |
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 | Misadventures to Phanom Rung
2005-09-04, Korat, Thailand. By: incaqueen | | This weekend is my first misadventure trip of my month's stay in Thailand. Deciding to visit some khmer ruins near to Buriram, I chose Phanom Rung Historical Park since it is Thailand's best restored... |
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| This is paradise!
2005-09-02, Krabi, Thailand. By: chrisdevon | | Hello from Phi phi. This place is truly stunning, we spent all day on the beach today and saw 5 other people. Since our last "update" (sorry) there is a lot to talk about; From Bangkok we flew to samu... |
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 | Siam, Chiang Mai
2005-09-02, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: fiach | | Arriving in Chiang Mai as a first class train passenger is not always what one might expect... comfortable regarding European standards is very true but unless your acquainted with typical track gauge... |
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 | I think I need a new liver...
2005-08-20, Ko Phangan, Thailand. By: roh | | From PP it was a solid 12 hour journey to Koh Phangan. We took a boat from PP to Krabbi, 3 buses from Krabbi to Surathani, then a very slow ferry from Surathani to Phangan via Koh Samui. The highligh... |
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 | Khao Lak Kool
2005-08-31, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: adamsteph | | Hey everyone!!
Check out the home page of travel journals, a picture that I took is the photo of the week. How cool is that? It's the from the Mothers Day ceremony when we gave alms to the monks.
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 | Thai Flavour
2005-08-20, Bangkok, Thailand. By: plikka | | Hi Everyone!
Life on the road is swell!! We're in Mauritius right now, and it's a pretty cool place. It is hard to believe that we're boarding a plane for Nairobi tomorrow! Safari here we come! ... |
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