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Travel stories from Khao Lak

Collection of 32 travel stories from Khao Lak, Thailand. Written by your friends on the road.

Traveler catmo79

Pictures for you to see
2005-07-20, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: catmo79

Amber put some more pics up at http://www.traveljournals.net/travelers/aoke so check them out. As soon as I figure out how to put some up I'll do that, but don't count on it being anytime soon! Lov...

 
Traveler catmo79

Sometimes dinner is served at 1:00 in the morning
2005-07-29, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: catmo79

More fun times in Thailand! Friday night ( I think, my days have all become one) we stayed up all night talking. At one oclock all of the sudden there was a knock at the door. No one wanted to answer ...

 
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Living with a pet scorpion
2005-07-27, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: catmo79

I've lost track of the days but I'm sure that I had a great time the last few days! I LOVE Thailand, have I mentioned that yet! We continue to work on building the homes, Thursday I got to paint the k...

 
Traveler catmo79

This is a very disturbing email and you may choose to not read it
2005-07-26, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: catmo79

For some reason the titles never show up for the one set of emails that I send out (if anyone knows why please let me know) so I wanted to rewrite the title here. This is a very disturbing email and y...

 
Traveler catmo79

Bloody and Broken weekend for me - but still great!
2005-07-24, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: catmo79

I just wanted to remind you all to please write me what you have been doing over the summer because I love hearing about your life. Please keep the emails coming. Thanks Today started off as any ot...

 
Traveler catmo79

The rain came, but it just seemed to add to the sadness that we were already feeling.
2005-07-20, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: catmo79

Wednesday, July 20 I woke up, looked at my alarm clock and realized that I was due to be at breakfast in 5 minutes. I told the other girls to get up and apologized that my alarm didn’t go off. Ambe...

 
Traveler catmo79

Tsunami scare and evacuation rips open healing wounds
2005-07-25, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: catmo79

Last night we got a small sense of what the Thai people live with everyday. We had a great night watching movies with the American boys and then stopped by the Happy Snapper on the way home to listen ...

 
Traveler catmo79

GREAT NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2005-07-19, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: catmo79

Brandon came by today with the best news I have heard in a long time - the young guy that we were positive was dead - isn't!!!! He knew how upset we were and suggested that we try to contact the hospi...

 
Traveler catmo79

It's finally starting to look like a house!
2005-07-15, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: catmo79

Today was a great day at work. They started putting the roof up today and that was when we took a step back and realized how much work we had done! It is finally starting to look like a house. After w...

 
Traveler catmo79

Visa run turns into one of the best days yet!
2005-07-16, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: catmo79

Today I went on my visa run. When I was preparing for this run I was told I would have at least a 2 hour drive there, I'd take a boat to Myanmar which would take a few hours, and then have at least a ...

 
Traveler catmo79

A wonderful day at the waterfall ends in the tragic death of a young Thai man
2005-07-17, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: catmo79

I don't even know where to begin so I will start at the beginning of the day and try to remember it as positively as it was which is difficult to do at this moment because I just experienced the death...

 
Traveler catmo79

Delivering Operation Christmas Child boxes and eating peanut butter (sort of), dreams do come true!
2005-07-13, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: catmo79

What a wonderful day! We woke up, had peanut butter for breakfast (actually it was soy bean butter, but the taste was close enough for me to have a third piece of toast), and were then on the road to ...

 
Traveler catmo79

Realities of the Tsunami hurt
2005-07-14, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: catmo79

Today has not been my most favourtite day. Every once and awhile it really hits me that while I am here for a few weeks of working, this is the reality of the people that live here. I get to go home t...

 
Traveler catmo79

It isn't every day that a monkey climbs your leg and then you go to hell
2005-07-12, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: catmo79

July 12 What a day! This morning started off like any other with working at the work site. By 9:00 we were all completely drenched in sweat. I am still surprised by how hot it is here and also by ...

 
Traveler catmo79

Website with Pics of what we're doing here
2005-07-11, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: catmo79

Hi again, I know, lots of emails for you today. I haven't had much email access but have been able to use Damion's laptop to type out emails and today was finally able to send them. Thanks for all ...

 
Traveler catmo79

Frogs and Dogs anyone?! (happy I'm a vegetarian!)
2005-07-07, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: catmo79

So much to tell! Last I wrote we had just arrived in Khao Lak and hadn’t had a chance to do much yet, but so much has happened and I am loving it more here everyday. My roommate, Andrea, left at 6:00 ...

 
Traveler catmo79

Pulled over by Thai Police on my Birthday!! (No, I'm not in Jail!)
2005-07-09, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: catmo79

I just had the best birthday weekend ever! Friday after Damion, Amber and Jodie got home from work (I wasn’t able to go to work because I was flat on my back from spending the night before throwing up...

 
Traveler catmo79

Arrived in Khao Lak , there is devastation everywhere
2005-07-05, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: catmo79

We arrived at the ariport and wondered how we would recognize the people that would be picking us up. Apparently they had been wondering the same thing, but I guess we came through the gates with a co...

 
Picture from story Khao Lak Kool

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. ...

 
Traveler adamsteph

Simple Pleasure in Khao Lak
2005-08-28, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: adamsteph

We have told you before how small, and basically depressing Khao Lak is, so I am sure you all must be wondering what we must do for fun, and how we keep our sanity in a town that doesn't have much goi...

 
Traveler adamsteph

Random thoughts from Thailand……..
2005-08-25, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: adamsteph

They have the best signs here, the ones written in English. One we saw the other day at the Lampi waterfall was, “Don’t Diving”. I love it. I used to think I wanted to correct all the English signs un...

 
Traveler adamsteph

What has been going on!
2005-08-17, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: adamsteph

Hello everyone, just a quick note to update you on where and what we have been up to. We spent last weekend in the Phuket province relaxing on the beach. We went to an area called Kata beach. Its w...

 
Traveler adamsteph

What we have been up to.........
2005-08-08, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: adamsteph

Hey everyone. Just a quick note to let you all what we have been doing. Today, we were lucky enough to go to one of the construction sites that is being mananged by the Tsunami Volunteer Center, an...

 
Traveler adamsteph

Tsunami Survivor
2005-08-08, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: adamsteph

Last night we met a woman from England named Lucy. She has been here about a week, and will be staying for another week to help out with some of the Tsunami Volunteer Center's Projects. I found out ...

 
Traveler dreayh

things are getting funner!
2005-07-02, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: dreayh

This is my 10th day in Khao Lak and its been awesome so far. I was really lonely the first 3 days and I missed home so bad but on the saturday right after I did my 1st update, things just picked up. A...

 
Traveler dreayh

the first weekend
2005-06-25, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: dreayh

I'm doing this update from khao Lak, thailand. The weather here is so damn hot, although the beach is just near by. Its the saturday here and i don't have to work, and yet, its too hot for the beach a...

 
Traveler adamsteph

First Week of School a Success!
2005-08-05, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: adamsteph

We just finished our first week at Thung Ma Phrao school, a secondary school located about 20 minutes south of where we are living. Our school is considered one of the better and nicer schools in thi...

 
Traveler adamsteph

Settled into Khal Lak
2005-08-02, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: adamsteph

We arrived into Khao Lak on Saturday, and have gotten settled into a small bungalow which we will call home for the next month or so. Our bungalow is small, but clean with nice tile floors and newer ...

 
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Disturbing Pics
2005-07-26, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: cat

It's awful the things that you can buy here. Yesterday I was looking at a bunch of tsunami pictures. When I first got here I was upset that people were using the tsunami to make money. There is even a...

 
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Bloody and Broken Weekend - but still great
2005-07-22, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: cat

Today started off as any other, just with the addition of lots and lots of blood - my own!!! We were hitching in to work when I stepped on a big piece of glass that went right through my shoe and into...

 
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Tsunami scare and evacuation rips open healing wounds
2005-07-24, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: cat

Last night we got a small sense of what the Thai people live with everyday. We had a great night watching movies with the American boys and then stopped by the Happy Snapper on the way home to listen ...

 
Traveler aoke

the beach and local villages are a mess
2005-07-07, Khao Lak, Thailand. By: aoke

I appologize if this journal entry is very heavy and disjointed but I want to write exactly what I saw and what I am thinking. There is only one sentence that can somewhat describe the way I felt tod...

 


 
 

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