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What Happened in Mui ne on the Boxing Day Tsunami
Blog: Fish Egg Tree - 26 December 2009
I’m not going to bother to write about how terrible the Tsunami was 5 years ago. There was no devastation in Vietnam, where I of course was at the time, so I’ll let others memorialize the tragedy. It was however, a turning point for Mui Ne, about which many people are unaware. It was the season the Russians came.
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December 26
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 26 December 2009
Christmas / New year holiday on Koh Chang? Want to do something more worthwhile than lying on the beach all day? (The school is located in the inland valley opposite Ramayana Resort, Klong Prao.
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Friday Flashback – The Best Beach on Koh Phangan
Blog: GoBackpacking - 25 December 2009
Thong Nai Pan Noi was a tropical paradise defined.Buy travel insurance from Worldnomads.com (Lonely Planet's preferred carrier)
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Bangkok Pt.6
Blog: Where is Rob? - 19 December 2009
Well upon arrival in Bangkok for my 4th proper visit (a couple of times where just stop overs) I remembered why Bangkok is currently my favourite city in the world by an absolute mile! The minute I arrived it was chaos, the noise, the smells both good and bad, the traffic, the dirt and the just pure sensory overload that is Bangkok just blew my mind once again and I was so pleased to be back. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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Friday Flashback – Partying on Koh Phangan
Blog: GoBackpacking - 18 December 2009
I arrived on Koh Phangan’s infamous full moon party beach a week early to secure a bungalow. Mission accomplished, however nobody warned me that every night on the beach is party night. And by party night, I mean massive bar sound systems booming psychedelic trance until the sun comes up each morning. My party skills were [...]Buy travel insurance from Worldnomads.com (Lonely Planet's preferred carrier)
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Royal Caribbean Cruise Legend of the Sea Trip Summary
Blog: PassportChop.com Travel Blog - Reviews, Travel Experiences - 18 December 2009
We will take a break from the Hong Kong posts to share on our 4 Nights Isles of Sea cruise experience onboard Royal Caribbean Cruise Legend of the Sea.
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Photo Essay: The White Temple of Chiang Rai, Thailand
Blog: GoBackpacking - 17 December 2009
If you are near Chiang Mai, make the 2-hour trip further North/East and spend a day there.Buy travel insurance from Worldnomads.com (Lonely Planet's preferred carrier)
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December 14
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 13 December 2009
Webmaster manuals often mention that there’s nothing like a photo of a Green Cat Snake to grab the visitor’s attentionon the home page of a site. So it is very fortunate that this lovely example ... Related posts:Klong Plu Waterfall November 30
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Stop, Thief!
Blog: Passed Ports: images and anecdotes from our travels - 12 December 2009
“Police! Help! Police!” As Max screamed into the darkness, someone jumped over the wall of the partially outdoor shower, rustling the thatched roof of the bungalow next door as he fell to the ground. The bare-chested thief bolted around the back of the bungalow and up the dirt footpath, disappearing into the jungle. Lonely Planet had warned us that [...]
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Friday Flashback – Koh Samui, Thailand
Blog: GoBackpacking - 11 December 2009
I’d been waiting a long, long time to visit the islands of Thailand, and the popular Chaweng Beach on Koh Samui was my first stop. I spent a week there, before moving on to the real party scene on Koh Phangan. Bye Bye Bangkok, Hello Koh Samui Chaweng Beach Life Kayaking Ang Thong National Marine Park Buy travel insurance [...]Buy travel insurance from Worldnomads.com (Lonely Planet's preferred carrier)
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Bangkok, Thailand
Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 11 December 2009
It was a very long, not very fantastic voyage from Siem Reap to Bangkok. We took a bus to the Cambodian border, waited for a smaller shuttle bus through passport control, and after some more waiting a van picked us up on the Thailand side to deposit us at a nearby roadside restaurant for almost two hours to finally be reshuffled with other travelers into the same vans that then transported us to Bangkok. It was a relief to arrive in town, but the journey was not yet over. We'd made a reservation at the Budget Travel Magazine-recommended JL Bangkok Hotel and finding it was no easy feat.
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Sea Breeze – Home Cooked Meals & Fishing Trips
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 10 December 2009
Koh Chang's Smallest Restaurant. Sea Breeze, a two table restaurant with an open kitchen that allows you to enjoy a private meal in friendly company and see first hand how your favourite Thai dishes are prepared. Regular dishes can be ordered there and then but advance notice is required if you want seafood as this will be bought fresh for you. Private Fishing trips and sunset 45 minute cruise to the islands off Klong Prao beach also available.
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Klong Plu Waterfall
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 10 December 2009
Need to fill a half day away from the beach? Klong Plu waterfall on the west coast of Koh Chang is a popular spot to spend a morning or afternoon. It is signposted from the main road and easily accessible. From the entrance, where foreign adults pay 200 baht and children 100 baht, it is a 600 metre walk along a shady riverside path to the waterfall which does look pretty spectacular.
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Celebrating the king’s birthday in Thailand
Blog: 501 Places - 8 December 2009
Dec 5th is a very important day in Thailand. It is the day on which this nation celebrates the birthday of its beloved king. As well as being a public holiday, it is a time of national celebration. We flew on the morning of the 5th from Bangkok to Chiang Rai. Travelling to the airport [...]
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The Beaten Path
Blog: Passed Ports: images and anecdotes from our travels - 5 December 2009
“But everybody goes to Thailand,” I quipped a few years back when explaining to a couple of friends why Thailand didn’t occupy a very high place on my Places to Go list. They laughed and poked fun at the hyperbolic explanation. “Oh yeah, Thailand, you may as well just go to the Jersey Shore, everybody [...]
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One night in Bangkok; pain relief Thai style
Blog: 501 Places - 5 December 2009
It might be the noise and smells on the streets. It might be the signs written in an unfamiliar script. A part of it is almost certainly the change in heat and humidity. Whatever it is, there is something exhilarating about arriving in a new city, in a new country, at the start of [...]
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Friday Flashback – Bangkok
Blog: GoBackpacking - 4 December 2009
After 3 months in Nepal and India, Bangkok mine as well have been New York City to me. Culture shock hit me hard. The air-conditioning made 7-11’s feel like blast freezers. Delicious Australian cookies known as Tim Tam’s were easily available again (just like in Bali). Long-flowing saris gave way to bare-as-much-skin-as-possible clothing. The beer drinking [...]Buy travel insurance from Worldnomads.com (Lonely Planet's preferred carrier)
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Sold Up The Klongs
Blog: ally - 3 December 2009
We had two nights in Bangkok which began as high farce and largely continued in the same vein, ending with us promising ourselves that we will have to return one day and give the city another try. It started inauspiciously. We had agreed with Jo and Greg that we would meet them early in the morning [...]
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Flying To The City of Angels
Blog: ally - 3 December 2009
Day was mostly taken up with our flight from Phnom Penh to Bangkok, again with AirAsia. Early this morning we visited the National Musuem, primarily for its collection of Angkor-era statutory. Caught a tuktuk across to the mustard yellow deco Central Market, which is undergoing renovations, but we were hasselled by some surprisingly unfriendly stall-keepers. Wandered [...]
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November 30
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 30 November 2009
If you are in the Klong Prao area you can paddle a canoe to see elephants bathing in the river.
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Thai Massage: The ultimate luxury or an exercise in torture?
Blog: Passed Ports: images and anecdotes from our travels - 29 November 2009
Thailand is almost synonymous with massage. You can’t go anywhere without seeing those ubiquitous enticing signs: Thai Massage 200bht, or some similar ridiculously low price. Countywide you can score an hour-long massage for about $5-10, depending on where you are (though they can be much more expensive at high-end resorts… and in certain areas – [...]
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Why is the bread green?
Blog: I don't wash my hair - 27 November 2009
As it happened, I ended up in Thailand for Loi Krathong, one of the most important Thai festivals (don't ask me anything about it, all I know is that it's important). It's celebrated in different ways in different cities. In Chiang Mai, hundreds of lanterns are released into the sky, where many catch in branches and set fire to trees, but those that do not look very pretty ascending towards the stars. In Bangkok, small baskets of flowers, candles and incense are lit and set adrift in rivers and lakes.
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Turning to page 19
Blog: I don't wash my hair - 25 November 2009
In the aftermath of the visa debacle, something unexpected happened: I remembered that I am equal parts anxious, vulnerable, fragile soul and intrepid, infinitely curious adventuress. I remembered that the world is no less my oyster simply because I cannot control its every minute pocket of insanity. (Or in the case of the Indonesian Embassy in Bangkok, its big, official-looking, concrete, intimidating shithole of insanity where things are run like a choose-your-own-adventure book, only it's not you choosing, of course, it's whatever nut they've hired behind the window.
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Bangkok Explorations: The Poetics of Language and the Joys of Thai Food
Blog: Jamón, jamón: Alice's Gastronomic Adventures - 23 November 2009
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Imagine City of Women, only without such a clear plot line
Blog: I don't wash my hair - 22 November 2009
UPDATE: My last post was plagued with uncertainty. Today the verdict is in: I am staying in Jambi! I will now continue to post stories of the last month, which may seem irrelevant at first, but it was a long, twisting road to where I ended up last week and I intend to work through it all piece by piece. So for now, we return to Thailand...
