 | Safe and sound!
2008-05-14, Bangkok, Thailand. By: SilverAsia | | So, I arrived yesterday after a grueling 18 hour travel day, and I have to say I never want to get on a plane again. Ever.
The flight to Hong Kong was actually nice, I made friends with a sweet lad... |
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 | Welcome to Bangkok
2008-05-12, Bangkok, Thailand. By: mariat | | We are FINALLY in Bangkok! It feels as though I have been traveling for days now...even the boys are starting to smell a little, uh, less than fresh. Our connections to get here have just been brutal,... |
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 | Shopping, Shopping and more Shopping
2008-04-27, Bangkok, Thailand. By: cmciver | | We arrived tired and exhausted in Bangkok on 24th of April and got straight down to business by heading out to the tailors where despite our best efforts we spent a lot more money than planned, but Ca... |
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 | Bangkok, Backpaker Area
2008-04-27, Bangkok, Thailand. By: stevoshell | | We arrived in a new area and immediately it felt like this was a great place. A lot more travelers and the party amosphere was pumping. We checked into our Hostel New Siam II and from here we were abl... |
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 | Last few days in Bangkok
2008-04-24, Bangkok, Thailand. By: stevoshell | | Hi All,
Our last night in the area we were staying in we searched for a bar called cheap charlies (as the name was quite inviting). This is the greatest bar in the world. Located down an alley and ... |
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| Arrival in Bangkok
2008-04-24, Bangkok, Thailand. By: stevoshell | | Well we have just spent our first 48 hours in Thailand, we flew into Bangkok airport on tue and a limo picked us up and took us to the hotel. One of our first sights were two baby elephants on the cor... |
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 | 13.5: Erik
2008-01-23, Bangkok, Thailand. By: Geerty14 | | It is actually late April (the 22nd) and so I have had a bit of time to think back and reflect on what has happened...AND SO I feel I am ready to tell Eric's story. I wrote this in the present tense,... |
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 | Bangkok
2008-02-18, Bangkok, Thailand. By: GBrownlie | | Arrived in Bangkok at 6am on 18 Feb exhausted after our 14 hour bus journey and 4 hour flight, all went smoothly surprisingly!!
Spent most of the first day sleeping in our classy guest house - even... |
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 | Bored In Bangkok
2008-04-20, Bangkok, Thailand. By: kay1968 | | We're still in Bangkok and beginning to tire of city life a little now. So much so that we have booked ourselves into a hotel with a pool so we can lie in the sun for a few days before heading to Viet... |
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 | Ceara is sweating like a Biatch
2008-04-20, Bangkok, Thailand. By: jltaylor | | Not quite sure what the temperature is here, but Cea would like everyone to know that she is sweaty!!! You guys can laugh but i have to spend 13 hours with her on a night train before she has her nex... |
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 | Back to Bangkok
2008-04-13, Bangkok, Thailand. By: kay1968 | | It's been a few days since we've been on-line, the reason being it is Thai New year and almost everything is closed including the internet cafes.
Our transfer from Malaysia to Thailand was effortle... |
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 | 15: Back in Bangkok and on towards the Islands
2008-02-01, Bangkok, Thailand. By: geerty14 | | Family.
Friends.
Fellow YWAMers.
I will not wait till the end of the e-mail to bless you, to tell you that I love you and appreciate you. All of you. I love you all. Seriously. Even you studen... |
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| 13: In Bangkok
2008-01-18, Bangkok, Thailand. By: Geerty14 | | Hey All!
Hope you are well and enjoying life! This will be a short 13 minute e-mail, make that 12 minutes, I'm paying 10 bt for 20 minutes, so here we go!
First of all I'm sorry that I haven't r... |
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 | Day 3: Khaosan Road + Enroute to Krabi
2008-03-07, Bangkok, Thailand. By: tichan | | The last day in Bangkok we didn’t actually spend a lot of times go around – because Ian had to do Friday prayer (and the closest mosque is near the hotel – sigh). So we took a stroll to the famous Kha... |
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 | Day 2: Floating Market, Temple Visits, Dinner Cruise
2008-03-06, Bangkok, Thailand. By: tichan | | DAMNOEN SADUAK FLOATING MARKET
Early morning, we went on join tour to Damnoen Saduak floating market. I know it sounds a bit touristy, but it's actually quite nice. I already pre-research the tour ... |
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 | Day 1: Enroute to Bangkok!
2008-03-05, Bangkok, Thailand. By: tichan | | I promised myself AT LEAST I should take once a year "proper break". After some consideration and research, we decided to go to Thailand! Well, actually I wanted to go to Maldives but it's still too p... |
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 | Bangkok still
2008-03-10, Bangkok, Thailand. By: lizzy86 | | I'm sorry if this journal is all out of order and i'm confusing you all, in my last update i forgot to write what we did on friday...we went to the grand Palace which probably Bangkoks most important ... |
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 | Last day in Thailand!
2008-03-10, Bangkok, Thailand. By: eme86 | | Yesterday we met up with Tan, Phung and Nan again. We went to JJ Market in the north of Bangkok, its one of the biggest Thai markets around, its so crazy selling everything from clothes and crafts to ... |
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| Back in Bangkok
2008-03-08, Bangkok, Thailand. By: eme86 | | We are back in Bangkok! We mnanaged to make the sleeper train back up north (we were slightly worried we were going to miss it, as although companies help you get on to the islands really easily, app ... |
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| Back in Bangkok
2008-03-08, Bangkok, Thailand. By: lizzy86 | | We have left our beach paradise :( we had a good night on my birthday we had pizza of course then went to an irish pub where there was a band playing covers of amazingly good songs, there was a thai s... |
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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 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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 | 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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| 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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| 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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| We have arrived!!
2008-02-20, Bangkok, Thailand. By: lizzy86 | | Well we have arrived safely. Flight wasn't so bad suprisingly although we were late taking off and we seemed to circle Bangkok airport for an eternity, but somehow we managed to land 15 minutes early!... |
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 | Another Party on the 1st...
2008-01-01, Bangkok, Thailand. By: smithy2006 | | The day was a bit of a no go after the New Years Events... so it wasn't until the early evening until the beers were flowing again... around the same time same place really... yep, just outside the gu... |
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 | Boring middle of trip entry
2007-04-03, Bangkok, Thailand. By: travelalex | | Well half way through the trip and now dad's been affected by the tormenting travel toilet bug too. At least it's happended on a day with relativly little travel. Our plans got pushed back a day when ... |
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 | A Second Opinion
2008-01-30, Bangkok, Thailand. By: mala | | Sometimes a city gets a bad rap. Sometimes you need to go out and get a second opinion. Sometimes both opinions are your own.
My first experience in Bangkok was somewhat shocking. I had just spent ... |
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 | Mum's Arrival and New Year!
2007-12-31, Bangkok, Thailand. By: smithy2006 | | 30th was another quite day really , Mum was a bit jet lagged and i was feeling a bit rough but we went out for a great meal, the Thai's really know how to make a curry and had a few beers, we decided ... |
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| More Beers
2007-12-29, Bangkok, Thailand. By: smithy2006 | | Today was pretty quiet as i didn't wake till 6pm, it was off to the pub though to watch some footy and have a few Changs with mates! After the footy went to another bar and relaxed, ended up playing c... |
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