Tag: Thailand

Planning a visit to Thailand?

When is the best time to visit Thailand? If you are planning a trip to Thailand and trying to decide when is the best time to visit, this information might be able to help. The best weather in Thailand when it is dry and not too...

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Cheap and delicious food

I am in Penang right now and one of the things I love about the place and Malaysia in general is the food. You have the choice between Indonesian, Malay, Chinese and Indian. It is a real melting pot of cultures with Muslims,...

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Bangkok airport to re-open Friday

After eight days Bangkok’s international airport will reopen this Friday and will be fully operational around a week later. It is good news for the some 200,000 travelers who have been stranded in Thailand, but the tourism...

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Holy Cow!

I caught a ferry this morning from Koh Samui to Surat Tani and then a mini bus to Hat Yai. It has been a pretty long day of travel, but the scenery driving through southern Thailand is interesting and different to the north....

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Options for getting out of Bangkok

As I have been writing about, Bangkok’s domestic and international airports are currently being occupied by ant-government protesters and all flights into and out of the airport have been cancelled and the airport...

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Rain, rain and more rain

It hasn’t stopped raining for the last couple of days here in Koh Phangan. Last night the wind was so fierce it blew a piece of roof off of my bungalow. There was also an amazing electrical storm looking across the water...

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No sign of tropical storm Noul – yet

A heavy tropical storm ‘Noul’ has hit southern Vietnam causing widespread flooding. The Meteorological Department’s statement about 6 am Monday said tropical storm Noul in the mid-South China Sea was centered...

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Preparing for a royal cremation

It is an interesting time to be in Thailand right now. Today is the festival of Loy Krathong. People float leaf and flower boats with lit candles and incense down rivers and canals. According to wikipedia, “the act of...

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Chiang Mai

I arrived in Chiang Mai early yesterday morning. It was a long bus ride (for me) but I got a little sleep. Some passengers on the bus were already booked in for a day’s trekking that day. All I wanted to do was eat and...

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Protests in Bangkok leave two people dead

With just a few days before I leave to Bangkok, protests continue which left two people dead yesterday. With the economic crisis going on, I have hardly seen anything in the news. It seems like the protests are only taking place...

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