 | Visit to Saraburi to attend a ceremony
2004-01-10, Sara Buri, Thailand. By: manojk | | It was request from my friends mom to visit to a ceremony at a temple.
The place was Saraburi which happened to be their home town also.
The ceremony was in a temple and was basically to respect t... |
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 | Visit to Ayuthya
2004-02-25, Ayuthya, Thailand. By: manojk | | I was told my friends that Ayuthya is holy place with lots of temple. Earlier to BAngkok, Ayuthya was the capital of Thailand/Siam
It is a regular custom among locals (normally senior people) to vi... |
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 | Visit to Pattaya
2004-02-20, Bangkok, Thailand. By: manojk | | Pattaya is a beach almost 3 hours from Bangkok, there are many buses going regularly from Bangkok.
For the beach lovers, probably Pattaya is not a happening beach. There is hardly any waves and loo... |
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 | Snake Park
2004-02-15, Bangkok, Thailand. By: manojk | | Snake Farm / Park is located near a Hospital and near to a sky train station (Saladeing), the farm has a good collection of poisonous snakes. The farm is basically creating anti-snake serums and the p... |
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 | Visit to Grand Palace
2004-03-01, Bangkok, Thailand. By: manojk | | Visit to Grand Palace was amazing.
It was not far from my hotel and took 30 minutes to reach there.
My friend took me by boat and then by car so we could reach faster.
As usual there was huge r... |
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 | Bangkok city and culture
2004-02-01, Bangkok, Thailand. By: manojk | | My visit to BAngkok was for consulting job. It was for 3 months and I was very well put up in a nice hotel/apartment. The daily travel from hotel to workplace was hectic and we had to catch a cab to m... |
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 | Songkram Madness!
2009-04-19, Chiang Kong, Thailand, Thailand. By: aimee | | Songkram is the Thai new year and it started the day we got to Chiang Kong! This is where the soaking began!! It was a little perilous walking on the streets with all our stuff trying to fina a guest ... |
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| Jungle Madness!
2009-04-19, Chiang Rai, Thailand. By: aimee | | Chiang Rai is lovely! It's much more like I remember Chiang Mai to be and it was even prettier because they've got all the decorations up for new year! We organised a trek in this area and we got a ve... |
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| We are Thai Master Chefs!
2009-04-19, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: aimee | | Oh Yes! We are officially Thai Master Chefs. We did a cooking course which was a lot of fun. There were only four of us on the course so we got a lot of attention from the Master Chef himself and the ... |
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| Kanchanaburi is even hotter than Bangkok!
2009-04-04, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: aimee | | Yes, it's true, it's even hotter here but we're braving through it! We walked about 9km to a cave temple in the hottest part of the day (it didn't look that far on the map) but it was worth it - John ... |
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 | Bangkok rocks
2009-04-03, Bangkok, Thailand. By: jemandtaz | | We're in Bangkok again. The bus we came on was brilliant. Very easy to sleep and it has restored our faith in busses. They gave you a pillow, a blanket, water, cake. And when we woke up in the morning... |
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 | Run run run!
2009-03-30, Chumphon, Thailand. By: jemandtaz | | After a lovely long sleep in this morning we headed out this morning to try and find out the train situation for Bangkok. We got to the train station, couldn't find anyone that could speak English, pi... |
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| Pictures
2009-03-29, Bangkok, Thailand. By: aimee | | If you want to look at pics go to
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| Bangkok is hot hot hot!
2009-03-28, Bangkok, Thailand. By: aimee | | Bankok is hot but we're making the most of it!
We've been to the Grand Palace and the Reclining Buddah and Wat Arun so far but we're a bit templed out (already!) so we've spent most of the day toda... |
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 | More hot springs and a Thai massage
2009-03-24, ranong, Thailand. By: jemandtaz | | Just a quick update for today!
Last night we drank quite a lot of beer. We sampled a variety of bars and found the cheapest Chang in the area ;-) Taz ended up on the phone to Rick for quite a whil... |
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 | Porn rang hot springs in Ranong
2009-03-23, ranong, Thailand. By: jemandtaz | | Today has been a brilliant brilliant brilliant day!! We got up and decided that we might as well stay here in Ranong another day so that we can relax and do a lot of washing! Yesterday was such a long... |
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| Crossing the border to Burma and back
2009-03-22, ranong, Thailand. By: jemandtaz | | Last night we rented a scooter for 100 baht from outside our hotel which is about 2 quid. We took a trip to Krabi town for some food. Krabi town is a bit of a dump! So when we got back to Ao Nang we b... |
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| Time flies when you're having fun!
2009-03-21, Ao Nang, Thailand. By: jemandtaz | | Where has this week gone?? We've both done lots of climbing. We're completely burnt out! We're staying in Ao Nang tonight for a McDonalds tea (everyone needs a break from rice every once in a while) b... |
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 | Tonsai
2009-03-15, ao ton sai, Thailand. By: jemandtaz | | I haven't had chance to update the blog for a little while so here's what we did this week...
On Monday after a nice rest in Ao nang for a bit of essentials shopping (handbag for me) we returned to... |
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| Climbing on Tonsai beach
2009-03-09, ao ton sai, Thailand. By: jemandtaz | | While we were in the intenet cafe in Pattaya last time we did our blog our scooter was taken by the police from right ourside. With the other 20 scooters parked in the same parking bay. We came out an... |
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| Krabi tomorrow!
2009-03-02, Pattaya, Thailand. By: jemandtaz | | We are moving to Krabi tomorrow. Paul has offered us a lift back to Bangkok where we'll get the bus to Krabi. It takes about 10 hours I think, so we're planning on getting an overnight bus. We were co... |
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| Pattaya
2009-02-28, Pattaya, Thailand. By: jemandtaz | | Hi everyone. Taz and I have spent a couple of nights with Paul and his wife Lamom and son Chris in his lovely house in Pattaya. On our first night here they took us around the town and we got drunk on... |
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| Khoasan Road
2009-02-25, Bangkok, Thailand. By: jemandtaz | | Today we ventured up the river on a river boat to the tourist mecca of Bangkok - Khoasan Road and the surrounding area. Once we were off the boat we wandered up and down long streets full of stalls se... |
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