Category: Travel
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Sunday 14 October and Monday 15 October 2012 Highlights: Surviving 48 hours on the road, Airport Lounges, QANTAS business class fun and pyjamas A very long 2 days with 4 flights, 4 airlines, 5 countries and over 8,800 miles to get to Reykjavik, Iceland from Bangkok going via Singapore, Frankfurt and finally London. I somehow…
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Today I finished the South East Asia leg of my 2012-13 World Trip. Visiting three countries over the last 2 weeks and 4 days; Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. For most of that time I was a member of a G Adventure tour group. I highly recommend G Adventure they are a great company that looks…
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Saturday 13 October 2012. Highlights: Trip to old capital Ayutthaya, visit Bang Pa-In Summer Palace, with a river cruise back to Bangkok. Sadly no tour members to see today means I’m rapidity finishing the South East Asian trip that began on Thursday 27 September when I left Australia. Today I had a booked tour to…
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Friday 12 October 2012. Highlights: Jim Thompson House and Museum, Shopping at MBK, Muay Thai (Thai Kickboxing). The tour officially ended at 8 am today but I had planned activities with my fellow travellers Sue, Ray, Sarah and Catherine and sole activity at the Muay Thai.
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Thursday 11 October 2012. Highlights: Royal Temple of Wat Po, Canal Ride, Farewelling group members. After our quick showers we headed off for a short tour of Bangkok feeling a little under the weather, some more than others. A local bus ride with a wooden floor introduced us to this city as I was thrown…
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Wednesday 10 October 2012. Highlights: Ferry ride, Overnight train to Bangkok Today was the long day that had multiple transportation methods from sitting in the back of a truck on dirt roads, to a ferry, to a double decker bus and finally and overnight 12 hour train ride. The day started with thunderstorm waking me…
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Tuesday 9 October 2012. Highlights: Fun in the sun, Aroma Massage, Hiking a mountain, BBQ seafood, Chinese Lanterns. A late start today still saw me the first one to breakfast at 8.30 am. Now some of the girls went to the Half Moon party last night, which sounded like it was a crazy event, with…
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Monday 8 October 2012. Highlights: Ang Thong National Marine Park, Kayaking in the Gulf of Thailand, Cruising around small islands A major seafaring day, not for those with motion sickness for sure. We checked out early from the hotel and had our bags locked away, we would see them late in the afternoon for our…
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Sunday 7 October 2012 Highlights: Elephant ride, Patting a tiger, Ferry crossing to Koh Samui. Today we headed to the island of Koh Samui located on the East Coast in the Gulf of Thailand. A roughly 3 hour van transfer saw us arrive at Don Sak Pier for our ferry trip. Incredible scenery with mountains,…
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Saturday 6 October 2012 Highlights: Shadow puppets. For once I was the first one into the breakfast room, keen to avoid yesterday’s lateness. Breakfast choices were few but toast and corn flakes will do. We have a 7 hour drive today crossing into Thailand after about 2 hours.
