Bangkok Travel Blogs - Page 12

10/23/06 After the Min’s dropped us at the dingy old Yangon airport we sat around waiting for our flight.  Cindy managed to lose her departure card which had as momentarily concerned (we didn’t have much cash left for a bribe!) and then when I went to pay the departure tax, somehow Bangko…

Yes, sometime you will run out of money. It happened to me, more early then expected. I had planned to go down to the south part of China by train or bus and then maybe cross the border to Vietnam. But without noney it was´nt possible so I thought about to end the trip and take a flight back to Sw…

First of all, thanks to Newtampo & Dodge to have made it happen.Have to say that i wasn't in the list of participants coz i didn't know if to go or not, coz of busy, coz no one of the participants was on my friends list (except newtampo and sabzero) and also coz am not for this kind of things.Indee…

  Gulf Air flight 150 out of Bahrain was another Airbus A340 and took off into the night sky at 8:45. My window seat was equally cramped as the previous flight but at least closer to the front of the aircraft, in row 26, which would greatly expedite my exit upon landing. I somehow managed to…

Bangkok, here we come! We tryed to get to the old town, but it looks like no metro line goes there. If u look at the city map, all rapid transit lines end far too far from the city centre. That makes u walk so much in Bangkok or... u dare to use the buses. We did. And it wasnt that bad. We went to …

landed in Bangkok tired and already sick of lugging my backpack around, stood in the queue for the taxi and some geezer said taxi 40 baht, i'd been quoted 500 so i bit his arm off... up puls his mate in the oldest most battered car i'd ever seen, it had no livery so obviously wasn't licenced and th…

Today was our last day in Bangkok so we decided to see the Grand Palace. We didn't leave our hostel until pretty late and I really wanted to take a tuk tuk so we tried to find one, which is apparently really hard when you actually WANT one. But we did find one and after A LOT of negotiating we deci…

I've been in Taipei for about a month now, and after all the  free meals, backrubs, and constant A/C thanks to my brother and relatives. I kind of regret leaving. Being as how I come to Taiwan pretty regularly, I didn't get much touristy stuff done. But I did take a dive course …

Our gamble on the minibus our Kanchanaburi guesthouse arranged paid off handsomely. We were dropped off just south of the Kao San Rd where we had reserved a room at a grungy hotel called Sawasdee Smile, we've had some pronunciation problems with it variously calling it the Swansea, Swednesday, Swas…

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six hours in the bangkok airport turned out not to be bad at all. i ended up just doing a bunch of e-mail, reading & wandering around the MANY shops. then it was on to my flight to INDIA. wow, wow, wow - i can't believe it.

After the temple, I took a tourist minibus back to Bangkok for just a few more dollars than the public bus. My friend had given me a hotel reservation that she couldn't use, so for one night I got to stay at a "nice" hotel with a real western bathroom, with a tub and a shower on a separate flo…

Preface. Last year I took three days of, the year before similiar and before that I went to Faliraki, for many that sounds awefull, but after growing up watching Tenerfie uncovered I had 'A filthy northern pikey lads holiday' on my list of things I wanted to do before dying and was overjoyed (…

On my second last day in Bangkok and SE Asia, I managed to get a Tuk Tuk driver for not too much omey (90B, after a taxi driver had ignored my request for him to use his metre and quoted me 300B-as if!), to take me again down to the main shopping district.  Unfortunately smoke started coming o…

  During my first 10 weeks in Thailand I was stuck in the middle of our Peace Corps training. We would all gather at this place called "The Hub" and learn about culture and other nifty things. But this "Hub" was also a government run training facility that had people from all over. Now most …