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Beaches for you * Haad Leela - 10 minutes walk from Haad Rin * Chaloklam * Tong Nai Pan Yai and Tong Nai Pan Noi * Bottel Beach * Bann Tai * Mae Hadd & Koh Ma * Haad Rin * Haad Salad * Haad Yao * Haad Son * Than Sadet * Haad Youn Activities If you don't want to do anything but swimming, chilling, walking around the beach, that's great. But  someone who doesn't, here you are : * Skuba Diving, snokling!!! * Kayaking - if you like an adventures, many resort h...

Well ... we were awake early in day 7 as the sleeper train was due to get into the station at 6:30 .... but it turned out to be late ... and didn't get into the station until about 7:30! It was a good thing that we asked a nice english speaking gentleman, were we at the right station because we would of gotten off about an hour train ride from where we were supposed to be getting off!!. When you really don't know where you are going, or the full names of the stations then its an easy mistake ...

On Samui I stayed for a week on Lamai beach. Hat Lamai is more tranquil than its overbuilt neighbor, Hat Chawin up the coast. But even on Hat Lamai I noticed that environmental degradation is beginning to show up in the form of raw sewage in the water.....with plastic bottles and some unmentionable items floating around in the surf. I'd never experienced seawater stinging my eyes like that before.

Ko Phangan was beautiful, I can see why people stay for so long, three weeks for me, and I could stay longer, but it's time to go home, the money is all gone, 16 weeks thought.  I have so many memories.  Surat Thani is not really a place that you want to stop in Thailand, but this actually the third time I have been here, sitting, doing nothing but looking at my bus ticket (actually this is the first time I've had a bus ticket).  First time changing buses from Bangkok to ...

The overnight train took twelve hours. The ride was fairly comfortable in wide seats that only slightly reclined but Dave and I managed to doze. Approaching Surit Thani, the sky began to lighten and we sat the last hour in the open door-way absorbing the thick and heavy jungle air. A two-hour bus ride got us to the port where we boarded the fast boat to Ko Samui, an island in the Gulf of Thailand.   The approximately ten-mile-square island of Ko Samui was the largest in the Gulf of Tha...

Having ahd to change the flight because the earlier one would have involved us getting a night boat we got on the air asia plane, very nice, newly fitted on the inside and the air hostesses were quite anal about electronics on boardd, anyway a pleasant enough flight and there was a bit of space to spread out which felt luxurious in comparison to being wedged in between the two guys from sydney to singapore. got to the airport and john realised he had lost his credit card so he had to try and...

Hi all,Well have had a very busy few days in Thailand so far, where we eventually made it after 15 HOURS in a minivan - the flooding was very widespread so we had to attempt several border crossings before we found one that was open. Since then they have all been closed so we were really lucky to get through. There is a LOT of damage - many people have lost their homes which is really sad and in some places the water along the highway was really deep (we drove through it but lots of people wi...

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One of the most beautifull countries I've visit! Only saw Bangkok and a trip to the south. So I have to go back to see more!

Als wir heute von unserer Tour abseits jeglicher Zivilisation wieder kamen, erfuhren wir von dem Militaerputsch, der heute Nacht stattgefunden hat. Bitte macht Euch keine Sorgen. Hier ist alles ganz ruhig. BKK erreichen wir erst naechste Woche vor unserer Abfahrt wieder und in den Tiefen Sueden, der gemeinhin sehr unruhig ist, fahren wir erst gar nicht. Wir werden uns natuerlich rechtzeitig ueber die Lage informieren. Ein ganz anderes Problem ist, dass der internationale Flughafen wohl am 2...

well yes, either i've had bad luck or 2nd class upper bunk sleeper in a thai train is the worst form of transportation ever: no window, hot, they don't kill the lights at night, etc... terrible... i missed the good old chinese sleeper trains! who ever said thai trains are good? they suck! after 3.5 months of trains in asia, this was the worst train i've ever had (let's not count hard seat in china, that's a different kind of animal :) )but quickly back to bangkok the day before: i decided to ...

I've got this thing about needing to walk across bridges--in Surat Thani it turned out to be the best thing I did... After wandering along a semi-country road for a bit I crossed this footbridge to... an entire town built on stilts!  Absolutely amazing!  This narrow walkway weaved its way on and on between the houses, shops, billiard clubs--everything a town needs.  I did get cornered by dogs a couple of times--not a whole lot of options  in a narrow walkway... but I figur...

Amazing trip, no worries..... Just good food, dirty trains, awesome cocktails, relaxed beaches and a few raindrops

it was my second time in thailand but still such an amazing country. had great time:)

February 2008