 | Lizzy's Birthday! (and our last day on the island...)
2008-03-05, Ko Samui, Thailand. By: eme86 | | Today was Lizzy's birthday, so we started the day off with some celebratory pancakes for breakfast! (After a little birthday cake of course!), unfortunately it then rained for a little, but we had pla... |
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 | More Ko Samui
2008-03-03, Ko Samui, Thailand. By: lizzy86 | | Well I don't honesly have a lot to write up today about the last few days, we have been spending a lot of time doing nothing which is brilliant. We feel like we are actually on holiday its brilliant, ... |
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| More laziness on the beach...
2008-03-03, Ko Samui, Thailand. By: eme86 | | We haven't really done that much the last couple of days. Just consisted of swimming in the pool (Lizzle is trying to teach me to swim under water...) and lying on the beach. Haven't yet braved the se... |
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 | Final Day - yet another fantastic discovery
2008-02-19, Ko Phi Phi, Thailand. By: xuanargi | | 19th Feb 2008 : ViewPoint & Runtee Bay
It is our last day on this beautiful island and we want to make full use of it to discover whatever gem or treasure there is by foot as I am terrified of the lo... |
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 | One night lost in Bangkok
2008-03-01, Bangkok, Thailand. By: kay1968 | | I'll take you to Chinatown for dinner he said, it's only 20 minute stroll from here he said! Yeah whatever....... never again will I rely on Steve's map reading skills. We successfully managed to circ... |
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| Arrived in Ko Samui!
2008-03-01, Ko Samui, Thailand. By: eme86 | | I finally woke up this morning after feeling ill for the past 3 or 4 days travelling down from Chiang Mai, haven't been that ill for a while! Pounding head and feeling sick on my first day at the beac... |
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| Ko Samui!
2008-03-01, Ko Samui, Thailand. By: lizzy86 | | We have arrived in our very own paradise!! We are on the island of Ko Samui, after two over night trains, a ferry, a weird bus thing and even more walking we have arrived! We have a nice little Bungal... |
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 | Arrived Bangkok
2008-02-29, Bangkok, Thailand. By: kay1968 | | Hi All,
After 23 hours travelling we got to our hotel which we booked on the internet before leaving and it's lovely.
Bangkok immigration seemed to take forever but the express airport bus AE1... |
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 | Piccies!!
2008-02-27, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: lizzy86 | | I just heard you have had an earthquake?! exciting... i guess it wasn't a bad one, did you all sleep through it?!
Unfortunately i can't put photos off my camera onto the computer so i will have to ... |
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| Our last day in Chiang Mai
2008-02-26, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: eme86 | | Today we are gettig another sleeper train down to Bangkok before heading on to the islands. I am now on the Beechams Flu and Cold medicine though as i'm not feeling very well, i'm guessing it's the he... |
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 | Discovering the best beaches in Asia...
2008-02-18, Ko Phi Phi, Thailand. By: xuanargi | | 18th Feb 2008 : Phi Phi Don & Bamboo Island
Monkey Bay:
We started our second Adventure Day at approximately 10am today. Met San at Tonsai Bay and took the longtail boat to Monkey Bay, which is at... |
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| Chiang Mai, Trek, Elephants, Rafting and more...!
2008-02-26, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: lizzy86 | | We have had a pretty hectic last few days so will have to give you an update of a few days all at once, we do not have the internet in the guest house where we are staying and its a good 45 minutes wa... |
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| Wat Phra That Doi Suthep
2008-02-26, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: eme86 | | Today we went to visit Doi Suthep, one of the most important wats in the area. It's high up on a mountain, the story goes that Thai people back in the day put a religious artifact on the back of an el... |
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| Our thai Trek
2008-02-25, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: eme86 | | Today it was an early start as we were going on a day trek to visit some hill tribes. The first was about a 40 minute walk up and down BIG hill sides in the hot sun, but it was nice when we were up th... |
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| Sunday in Chiang Mai
2008-02-24, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: eme86 | | This morning we went on a river cruise down the Mae Ping river, was very peaceful (apart from the noisy engine!) and we ended up going to a herb garden and were given fresh fruit to eat, the pineapple... |
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 | Relaxing first 3 days...
2008-02-17, Ko Phi Phi, Thailand. By: XuanArgi | | 15th Feb 2008 :
Meeting at Phuket Airport:
I flew in from Kuala Lumpur while Argi flew in all the way from Athens via Bahrain. Argi arrived 45 minutes earlier than me and upon my arrival at around... |
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 | Second last night in Siam!
2008-02-24, Bangkok, Thailand. By: bennicci | | Hello all and welcome back to one of our final entries in this journal.
As we haven't done an entry for our journey from Vietnam to Bangkok, we will fill you in now. We woke up in vietnam on the 22... |
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| Arrived in Chiang Mai!
2008-02-23, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: eme86 | | ...until 10.30am, we have arrived and are staying at a guesthouse just outside the city centre, a short tuk-tuk ride or red-car journey in. The room we are staying in is a bi nicer than before, and it... |
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| Train to Chiang Mai
2008-02-22, Bangkok, Thailand. By: eme86 | | This morning after some more sweet bread (has turned a little bit into an addiction!) we wandered back to Khao San Rd adn bought some ugly Jesus creapers shoes for walking in (as our flip-flops were b... |
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| Day with Tan and Phung!
2008-02-21, Bangkok, Thailand. By: eme86 | | Today we met up with Tan and Phung (and Tan' friend Nan) and we went to Dusit zoo! So many animals- giraffes, crocodiles, snakes... It was alot of fun, and so cheap compared to London zoo!! We then we... |
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| 1st full day in Bangkok
2008-02-20, Bangkok, Thailand. By: eme86 | | We woke up (after a restless night's sleep) and we found some sweet bread in a 7-11 next door for breakfast (like brioche), there are 7-11's EVERYWHERE in Bangkok! Today's trip forst took us to the st... |
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| Arrived in Bangkok!
2008-02-19, Bangkok, Thailand. By: eme86 | | We arrived in Bangkok ok after an 11 hour flight! Not so comfotable and had questionable food (vegetable curry and samosas for breakfast?!), but the entertainment was alright. We made it to our guesth... |
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| Chiang mai
2008-02-23, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: lizzy86 | | We have managed to reach our second destination safe and sound, although we did have a little issue with the buses in Bangkok on route to the station as we got on the wrong one first, then managed to ... |
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 | Ouch! I got stung!
2008-02-08, Phuket, Thailand. By: bennicci | | Hello all!
Tonight, we come to you from the beautiful Karon beach. It is truly lovely here. In comparison to the neighboring Patong Beach, it is ten times better. The beaches are perfect, fewer peo... |
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| Leaving crazy Bangkok
2008-02-22, Bangkok, Thailand. By: lizzy86 | | Just a quick message today, we are leaving Bangkok today for the hopefully the more calm and relaxed atmosphere of Chaing mai in the north! We are getting the sleeper train at about 7.35 tonight but i... |
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