Hi all,
I know there has probably been a million questions about cost but I just wanted to clarify a few things. I'm going travelling for 6 months starting of in India going to Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Malaysia spending around a month in each with extra time for travel or if we wanted to stay a bit longer. We are planning on staying in hostels and eating local food but also want to be involved in trips such as going to Ankor or spending time in an elephant sanctuary. I just wondered how much people would recommend taking (in GBP) will around £6000 be enough.
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winteroffreedom
I’m already one step ahead of you. I just finished my successful trip to Ko Phan Ghan having not used the helmet once.
But thank you for your comments. I don’t question that I could be in a lot of trouble if I were to fall off the motorcycle or be hit by somebody else etc.
Going to Ko Phan Ghan and motorcycles with no helmet, it’s not my first trip to the rodeo. I have been several times and spent most of my time riding the motorcycle and never wore a helmet.
During this trip I was peacefully looking at my GPS at a 7-Eleven having enjoyed riding there without a helmet and then15 feet in front of me “bang crash boom!” A kid in his early 20s with no helmet no shirt no sandals, only wearing shorts crashes into an old Thai man on his motorcycle.
There was some bleeding and scrape marks for sure, looked like the kid got a good one on his Adams apple to, a good scrape there. Good scrapes on his back to, well-deserved.
But if you’re like me, you will have no problems. My top speeds vary between 30 and 40 km an hour.
Everybody’s passing me on the road. I don’t know why foreigners are in such a rush to get someplace when they are on such a nice mellow and relaxing island like that.
The only people I saw wearing helmets were newbies on motorcycles.
Every local dog grandmother child grandpa babies monkeys- no helmets. It’s only the foreigners who drive like maniacs who deservingly get into accidents. Lots of those idiots ripping past me.
I spent most of my time riding the motorcycle, I enjoyed every minute of it with no helmet, and going slow. I spent most my time on the back roads virtually alone.
I don’t think that’s a huge risk if you’re responsible Slow and steady wins the race. And I guess I won again because I’m back in Bangkok with happy memories now.
My coverage is in the millions, so fortunately I never got to find out what would happen if I wasn’t wearing the helmet or not.
Now back to the urine test. The thing I got to say about that is yes I am afraid of hearing if the test because I will be positive. And something like that is out of my control if they choose to test someone. When I ride a motorcycle without a helmet that’s in my control whether I choose to wear the helmet or not. So yes I worry about a urine test and not worried about a helmet.
Further about the urine test this was something that was brought up a couple years ago in the Bangkok post, but it did not feel at all at any time that the place was putting pressure on anybody for a drugs or drug testing. I don’t think anywhere in the world would do such a thing because word with catch on and nobody would want to go to those places anymore.
Sadly we live in a world full of over safety, over prevention and not allowing people to use their own common sense . Our freedom is slowly being taken away from us everywhere we look I’m not allowing people to make up their own mind or have their own common sense and make their own judgements but I thank Thailand for having a loose attitude about many things, not just helmets.
monkeylove
Hi All - our family ( three generations ) 8 adults + kids of us a planning to travel to India for a month Dec/January this year. We are planning to land in Dehli and travel in a North West direction. We would like to spend a week around Christmas somewhere in the himalaya foot hills or near by where there will be lots of snow - we are looking to try and find a homestay/house that coudl accomadate our entire family . Any suggestions where to go, kids between the ages of 5 and 13 .
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edwardseco
Other than lacking paragraphs I enjoyed this so much. I would add that knowing a few words in Hindi is a great ice breaker, taking out a note book and practicing the script is amazing. Expect to be invited somewhere. Wearing a cowboy hat also is handy especially in urban areas. A modern variant of an icebreaker is a cell doing Skype with family at home. It makes you human and closes the gap. If someone at home can speak Hindi or in the East, Bengali you are instantly promoted to Maharaj status:)..
aaronckubala732026
Dear Kaitlin,
Thank you for providing me the link to the claims department. You have a lovely interface for submitting comments. My biggest complaint so far is that your company appears woefully lacking in transparency; there is little to no information available about the aforementioned pillow fights and what they actually entail. It is almost as if instead of working, the entire staff is out hot tubbing and drinking wine. Please consider being more professional.
Looking forward to your response and anticipating an outlined plan for your improvement.
Yours,
Aaron
