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Andaman Coast: Quest for the Perfect Beach
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 30 May 2011
We have talked plenty about the tourism boom and overdevelopment in Thailand, but let’s be honest, there’s a reason why everyone wants to come here. And even though it can get a little crazy, we have managed to find relaxation on some of Thailand’s most beautiful beaches. Some scenes in the video are well known [...]
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Fun with Locals
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 29 May 2011
Although Tony mentioned growing conservatism among Muslim minorities in Southern Thailand in Burkas and the Art of Roti Canai, there’s obviously another side to the story. Young girls are still young girls, with or without headscarves. These girls were especially outgoing, stopping us to take our picture on Koh Tarutao. When we asked to take [...]
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Cleaning up Thailand
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 27 May 2011
On our previous visit to Koh Adang, Tony came across a beautiful stretch of white-sand beach while water-hiking. (Clearly, he was ignoring rule No. 2 in our last post.) He couldn’t wait to go back and show me his discovery. Twenty minutes of walking and twenty five minutes of swimming took us to what he [...]
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Water-Hiking
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 25 May 2011
It’s no secret that we love nature. And if you haven’t figured it out by now, we aren’t huge fans of crowds of tourists lying on our beaches. (We’ve said it before, we’re beach snobs.) But our pictorials and videos from Goa to Palawan often show stunning, empty beaches completely devoid of much of the [...]
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Sunda Flying Lemurs
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 23 May 2011
Well, they’re not lemurs and they can’t really fly, but they definitely are awesome! After almost two years in Southeast Asia, we’ve finally spotted two – count ‘em two – Sunda flying lemurs here on Koh Adang. The amazing gliding mammals swooped down in front of us and landed on a tree not far from [...]
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That’s Nature for You
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 21 May 2011
After braving the mass tourism and overdevelopment further north, we finally decided to retreat to Koh Tarutao National Park, our island hideaway in Satun Province. This time, we went to Koh Adang, an island we explored on our previous visit, but didn’t write about. One of the island’s most intriguing features WAS a beautiful sandspit [...]
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Burkas and the Art of Roti Canai
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 19 May 2011
Twenty years ago, the markets of southern Thailand and Malaysia were visually stunning events marked by the colorful silk robes and wispy conical headscarves worn by ethnic Malay women. Eye-popping floral prints and soothing pastels greeted visitors as did the hospitable smiles of chatty sales women. But not-so-subtle changes reveal the allure and the sway [...]
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Heaven and Hell
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 18 May 2011
I love Buddhist hell. Well, at least from an outsider’s perspective. Depictions of people being tortured in the afterlife are goriest, sickest and most twisted in the Buddhist faith. You do have to wonder what convoluted minds come up with this stuff. While in Phang Nga town, we visited Tapan Cave (also called Heaven and [...]
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James Bond Island and Phang Nga Bay
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 15 May 2011
I fell in love with Phang Nga Bay, and karst landscapes in general, when I first set eyes on Koh Ping Kan in the wonderfully cheesy ’70s James Bond flick The Man with the Golden Gun. Now more commonly known as James Bond Island, the stunning piece of karst eye candy is the withering centerpiece [...]
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Khao Sok National Park
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 13 May 2011
After several days in the stunning Khao Sok National Park, we’ve put together a short video. Follow along as we hike trough Khao Sok’s jungle and explore the shores of Chiaw Lan Lake in search for hidden waterfalls and caves. While staying in a floating lodge on the lake was certainly a novelty, the actual [...]
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Snake-festation
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 11 May 2011
“Thomas, I think I just saw a rat!” I screamed as I squinched my eyes up to see through the mosquito net, “Something is moving in the rafters.” Snake #1 stares down at me Thomas was busy brushing his teeth in our super-glam outdoor jungle bathroom and I was too lazy to look for myself, [...]
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Art’s Riverview Jungle Lodge
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 9 May 2011
Wanting to shake it up a little and take a break from beach life, Tony and I have taken a few days to explore the jungle-covered mountains of Khao Sok National park. Considering the close proximity to touristy Phuket, the park seems surprisingly quiet. Obviously, beaches take precedent over rain forest in Thailand. Great for [...]
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The 2004 Tsunami
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 7 May 2011
It’s a bizarre site, a Thai navy battleship sitting stranded in grassy fields one kilometer from the coast. Perhaps the most poignant visual testament we’ve encountered to the power of the 2004 super-tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean. Khao Lak was the area hardest hit in Thailand. 5,395 people are confirmed to have died [...]
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From Bleaching to Beaching in Khao Lak
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 5 May 2011
We came to Khao Lak to dive the world famous Similan Islands. But plans change. We were willing to pay the high prices for a live-aboard trip to the celebrated dive destination, but when one local dive operator commented that viewing the reef system made him want to break out in tears, we decided to [...]
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Jedi Mind Tricks
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 3 May 2011
Well, here’s another reality check for travelers looking for a bit of atmosphere. Khao Lak is littered with signs for the Jedi Restaurant, which appears to hover effortlessly above the beautiful waters of Khao Lak. A closer inspection of the signs reveals a little bit of photoshopping, which we assumed was to make the water [...]
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Wet’n Wild on Songkran
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 1 May 2011
Thais celebrate their New Year’s Day with quite a splash. While Chinese New Year centers around food, Songkran is all about throwing water on friends, family, neighbors, or unsuspecting passers-by. Watery street battles with hoses, water guns, buckets, and paper cups take place during the hottest part of the year, which makes the ice-water ammunition [...]
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Krabi’s Tiger Cave Temple
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 29 April 2011
The Tiger Cave Temple just outside Krabi town is known for its big caves and big views. But what really captured my attention was the big trees along the nature walk behind the temple. One tree in particular stopped me in my tracks. It had to be the biggest buttressed trunk of any tropical tree [...]
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Beautiful Beaches and Barbed Wire
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 27 April 2011
The modern incarnation of Phra Nang fascinates me on so many levels that I could write a book on this one single beach. Phra Nang is stunning, preposterous, perfect, horrifically flawed, a sham, a jewel, a white-powder contradiction. It’s also a rather unique achievement. At some point in the second millennium, I strolled across a [...]
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Penises for a Princess
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 25 April 2011
Let me start by saying that this posting is not about me, contrary to what the photo or the title may suggest. During a recent island-hopping trip, our guide Ooh told us the local legend behind the Princess Cave, a small shrine in the karst at the southern end of Phra Nang beach. “The cave [...]
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Krabi Karst and Beaches
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 21 April 2011
Just a quick glimpse of TnT exploring the beaches and karst landscape of the Thai province of Krabi, one of the most stunning regions on the planet. No lectures on crowds or over-development. Today, just a vision of nature at its best.
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Red Tuk Tuk in Krabi, Thailand - Picture of the week
Blog: Malaysia Asia - 23 August 2010
Red Tuk Tuk in Krabi, Thailand is my picture of the week. These little modified vans known as 'Songthaew or Song Tiau' serve as one of the main transportation around Southern Thailand. Usually they are simple vehicles but some of the locals have taken the initiative to modify them. Complete with spoilers and skirting, some of them even come with an impressive sound system and flashing neon
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Travel Ideas: The Beaches of Thailand
Blog: My Little Nomads - 7 June 2010
The best stretches of sand in the Land of Smiles!READ MORE AT: Travel Ideas: The Beaches of Thailand Most popular post: The 5 Best Greek Islands for Kids and Families Most emailed post: A Cancun Family Vacation — Things To Do with Kids
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My luck runs out
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 19 March 2010
Being mugged. Being in a bus crash. Getting kidnapped. Catching a horrible tropical disease. Earthquakes. These are some of the many things that I worried about before heading off for a year of travel. Of course I should have realised … Continue reading →
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You Down with Koh Phi Phi?
Blog: See Simi Travel Blog - 1 February 2010
As “Extreme” was the tagline for Morocco and Europe (2005) “Magnifique” will be the new one for the islands of Thailand’s Andaman Coast. The flight from Singapore to Phuket was effortless and meeting up with Ganit was surprisingly “normal” despite the built up anticipation. Being thrifty, we opted for the mini-van to go to Phuket town. Poor choice! [...]
