Our second to last stop in Thailand, Chiang Mai is a love / hate thing for me. On the one hand it’s an awful expat place full of very stereotypical westerners, on the other we’ve [more…]
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Lampang
Travel in Asia is an art form. From the language barrier, to 5 hour delayed trains, to wondering if ‘bungee cord’ counts as a ‘locked compartment on a bus or coach’ as written in your [more…]
Read moreSukhotai
The journey between Phitsanoluk and Sukhotai is simple enough, you load onto a small minivan with a bunch of locals, watch in trepidation as they strap your luggage onto the roof with bungee cord and [more…]
Read morePhitsanulok
Remember in Lopburi you left us waiting in the train station for the Phitsanulok train? We do, we remember. We were there for a while. Main Album The Journey A few days ago we had [more…]
Read moreLopburi – Peakcock Temple and Monkey Town
Lopburi – home of monkeys. That’s their thing, you look up Lopburi on the Internet and it says “Hey, go see the monkeys, it’s a whole thing, they have them everywhere.” I’m not disappointed – [more…]
Read morePak Chong & Khao Yai National Park
Something a little different today! We spent two nights as guests of Greenleaf Guesthouse and Tour – http://www.greenleaftour.com/index.html. For one price you get picked up at Pak Chong train station, two nights stay in the [more…]
Read moreAyutthaya
Main Gallery: Rucksacks on our backs we prepare to brave our first experience of Thailand backpacking – after half of the stories I’ve heard I’m expecting to have to desperately grab a train as it [more…]
Read moreExploring Bangkok
Alrighty, time to find some culture and take lots of pictures of it! We are both too tired to plan anything, so we fire up Google Maps, powered by our new Thai data sim, and [more…]
Read moreThai Nature
We read a lot online about the wildlife in Thailand, like the mosquitos, spiders, scorpions, stray dogs, cat sized rats and rat sized cats, but our first taste of nature was right outside the balcony [more…]
Read moreFirst ‘day’ in Bangkok
Finally We spent some time in the UK deliberating over what type of hotel to stay in for our 3 days here, especially as the exchange rate opens up some awesome options. If it’s [more…]
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