 | Last Days in Bangkok
2009-11-05, Bangkok, Thailand. By: mynewlife | | It was hard to leave Asia as I headed back to the west. I learned a lot of things such as how to live as much as I could like a local in Thailand, the happiness that comes with people not of wealth, a... |
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 | Wat the ..........??!!!
2009-10-27, Bangkok, Thailand. By: pinners | | For those of you who aren't already aware by now the big trip started extremely smoothly when we missed our first bloody train to London!! So, I was standing at the platform at 13.55 as the train drov... |
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| A week in Bangkok
2009-10-18, Bangkok, Thailand. By: mynewlife | | Another week has passed by and the days have both been rainy and sunny. So far so much has happened it feels more like twice the time since I have done a lot. A movie, a painful Thai massage, meeting ... |
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| Rainy days in Bangkok
2009-10-14, Bangkok, Thailand. By: mynewlife | | As the water pours so the day go by quickly here, its already been three days since Ive been in Bangkok and Ive started to see more of the local life here.
The days of the tourists, of the palace ... |
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 | We have arrived !!
2009-09-07, Bangkok, Thailand. By: leed1983 | | Arrived in Bangkok and we are now a full day in!! Currently sitting in a cyber cafe in the Koh San Road using skype for the 1 st time talking to Mum and maybe my Grandparents. I feel like tech support... |
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 | So I'm on my lonesome
2009-08-31, Bangkok, Thailand. By: fuma121 | | Well thats it now, I'm on my lonesome. And I tell ya its scary as shit!!! But fun all the same. Tonight I met 2 Americans and ended up chattin to them most of the night. Was nice. Well I think someone... |
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 | Bangkok.
2009-07-06, Bangkok, Thailand. By: aarond | | Well on the first part of our vacation we made a stop in Bangkok, which turned out to be a lot of fun.
The architecture was great and I really enjoyed the overall culture of the place. We did ho... |
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 | A little piece of western heaven!
2009-06-30, Bangkok, Thailand. By: aimee | | John’s first words as we re-entered Thailand were ‘You’ve got to love Thai efficiency’ and as we approached Bangkok ‘It’s so clean!’. ‘Is he on drugs?’ I hear you asking. I can assure you he’s not and... |
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 | Okie Dokie Obie's Here
2009-06-05, Bangkok, Thailand. By: mikegagnon | | Just now it's 10:15 in the morning, and it's my first morning in Bangkok. So far I've walked around a little bit, been asked by 50 Tuk Tuk drivers if I need anything, and I can feel the sweat running... |
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 | More the merrier!
2009-05-24, Bangkok, Thailand. By: jemandtaz | | Sarah and Anneka are here!
Yesterday when Sarah arrived we made a special effort to go to the Paragon shopping center before she jet lag kicked in. We took her for some god damn amazing Thai food a... |
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 | Phuket
2009-05-23, Bangkok, Thailand. By: cheeseme | | We are in Phuket. Truly gorgeous. We are going snorkeling at Phi Phi tomorrow. Internet here kind of sucks, so entries may be short or nonexistent for a couple of days. |
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 | Pouring rain
2009-05-22, Bangkok, Thailand. By: cheeseme | | Sitting in the hotel in the poring rain. Woke up late but started the day right with massages right after breakfast. Day was good we were on our way out when it started a down pour,so I finished addre... |
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| Rain in Bangkok
2009-05-22, Bangkok, Thailand. By: jemandtaz | | We're back in Bangkok a last, the night bus last night was uneventful apart from Taz getting bitten on his face by mosquito's in his sleep, poor thing.
This morning when we arrived at 6pm, got in a... |
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| Massage
2009-05-22, Bangkok, Thailand. By: cheeseme | | I just paid $10 to have someone give me a Thai style message for an hour. Our bodies were sat on, pulled in different directions,stepped on, smacked around, literally pounded on,and generally yanked. ... |
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 | Temple tourist day in Bangkok
2009-05-20, Bangkok, Thailand. By: cheeseme | | We decided to dedicate this day to some sight seeing. Breakfast was again lovely, fried mushrooms on garlic bread so we were full bellied and ready to go. It was a hot day. I mean HOT, sweltering, s... |
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 | catching up
2009-05-19, Bangkok, Thailand. By: cheeseme | | Warning this probably going to be long winded.
We got in to Bangkok at 1:05am and I was so exhausted that I passed out on the plane right around take-off and was even dozing off in the cab to the h... |
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 | Visit to Crocodile park
2004-02-07, Bangkok, Thailand. By: manojk | | It was a lovely day and my friends agreed to accompany me to the crocodile park. Its far so we decided to take a taxi to the park.
As usual the foriegners are charged more.
The park has huge col... |
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 | Friends at Bangkok
2004-01-05, Bangkok, Thailand. By: manojk | | I made many friends at Bangkok, mostly it was because of the IT consultancy work which involved local BAngkok residents, Australian, Italian, Japanese
Also I had a good friend Jane and her family h... |
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 | Oakwood : my aparment
2004-01-08, Bangkok, Thailand. By: manojk | | Oakwood is nice hotel / apartment. Since it was arranged by my company I did not worry about payments and neither its tariff
The apartment was a nice 1 BHK and furnished. It had a swimming pool and... |
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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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 | 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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| Pictures
2009-03-29, Bangkok, Thailand. By: aimee | | If you want to look at pics go to
[url]www.flickr.com[/url]
and surch for johnjohnowen
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[url]http://www.flickr.com/photos/john-owen[/url] |
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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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| 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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 | Back to Bangkok
2009-02-20, Bangkok, Thailand. By: sayer | | Hi everyone,
We arrived back from Chiang Mai on the overnight train to Bangkok. It was rather cramped. We updated Hayley's facebook pictures (so check them out). We walked around the Grande Palace an... |
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| Ladyboy experience!
2009-02-23, Bangkok, Thailand. By: jemandtaz | | We had a scoot round the city on the sky train today to visit a few sights and stock up on suncream at the shopping centers. We also got a few new pairs of flip flops. Last night my 2 quid pair from p... |
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| On the move again, this time to Thailand
2009-02-21, Bangkok, Thailand. By: jemandtaz | | Well its an early start for us today, to make sure we catch the 8:15 ferry from Pangkor back to the mainland. (Malaysia)We met our friends from Finland to travel back to Kuala Lumpur with them. Always... |
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| Back in Thailand
2009-02-12, Bangkok, Thailand. By: sayer | | Hello everyone, just to let you know we are back in Thailand now and will begin our 21 day trip from Thailand through Malaysia to Singapore. We will join an overnight train tomorrow night so we can ar... |
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 | Bangkok - Chaotic but Good Fun.
2009-01-29, Bangkok, Thailand. By: nunns | | A relatively short flight(2hours)and here we are amid the madness that is Bangkok. After the peace, tranquillity and balmy sea breezes of Railay beach the noise, bustle and humidity of Bangkok are qu... |
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 | Back in Bangkok .... again !!!
2009-01-20, Bangkok, Thailand. By: cbr600f | | Hello all !
Well, what a great time I had on Ko Tao. Really nice place, chilled out .... For the second part of my time there I moved out of the Crystal Dive Resort and stayed in a great place call... |
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 | Bangkok
2009-01-15, Bangkok, Thailand. By: saffa2 | | Sawatdi!
That's what our hearts shouted when we entered the Land of Smiles yet again. Greeted with friendly faces and welcomes all around, we felt right at home the moment we set foot on Thai soil.... |
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 | 1st day in bangkok
2009-01-13, bangkok, Thailand. By: 2sultans | | The plane landed and our passports were stamped without a hint of communication other than a few nods and some strange glances as we bumbled our way through customs. Outside the airport we set out... |
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 | Back in Bangkok !
2009-01-03, Bangkok, Thailand. By: cbr600f | | Well, I'm back in Bangkok !! I really liked Kanchanaburi and ended up staying there about 5 days - on New Years Eve I rode my little twist and go up to the Erewan Falls about 60ks out of Kanchanaburi.... |
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 | Bangkok
2008-12-21, Bangkok, Thailand. By: yogibeari | | Bangkok:
While Bali, Indonesia is predominantly hindu, Thailand has 95% Buddhists. Stats here.
Cambodia was my selected destination after Indonesia. Due to flight conflicts and not enough days,... |
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 | Bangkok 2
2008-11-22, Bangkok, Thailand. By: rossnkaren | | We headed back to Bangkok to meet Karen's parents and take a Thai cooking course with them. They had booked a tour of South East Asia and it ended in Bangkok so we had arrange our schedule so that we... |
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 | Bamboo huts and royal birthdays
2008-12-06, Bangkok, Thailand. By: katsmith | | I'm back in Bangkok again - for the third time now - and finding ways to while away the time before I (hopefully) manage to fly out of Bangkok tomorrow. I've managed to find somewhere to stay (always ... |
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 | One Night (Last Night) in Bangkok!
2008-11-20, Bangkok, Thailand. By: cbtjoe | | It is 8:45pm Thursday night and I just came back to the hotel after a final massage....this hotel is so nice...I can't believe I had to open the door myself to enter the lobby....I think I'll complain... |
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 | Bangkok 1
2008-11-18, Bangkok, Thailand. By: rossnkaren | | We took a bus to Bangkok, or more accurately, 2 buses. One to the Cambodian border and one on the other side, leaving us to walk across no man's land (complete with a casino) between the borders. We... |
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 | Jim Thompson House
2008-11-16, Bangkok, Thailand. By: cbtjoe | | Today was just a lazy day and quick ride to Jim Thompson's house. He was an american who lived here after WWII and revolutionized Thai silk to the USA. He also built a traditional thai home on a canal... |
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 | Bangkok
2008-10-25, Bangkok, Thailand. By: siqueira | | For the moment.....It is the capital of Thailand !!!! heheheh a big information.....wait good information gonna come.... |
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 | The King and I go to the Market
2008-11-15, Bangkok, Thailand. By: cbtjoe | | Today was the public creamation of the sister of the King of Thailand.
The country is in mourning over her passsing and the entire creamation
is being televised. The processsion of thousands of tr... |
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 | Tuk Tuk = Shop Shop!
2008-11-14, Bangkok, Thailand. By: cbtjoe | | Up and adam after just 5 hours sleep. It's 8am and the day is a wasting away!
Let's go to China Town! First we have to bargain for just the price for the driver of these gas powered, broken muffler... |
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| The Flight
2008-11-12, Bangkok, Thailand. By: cbtjoe | | Ugghhh! Another dreaded flight...not only is the flight going to be long (about 20 hours) and firstclass-less, but we also cross the international date line which means we lose another whole day. We... |
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