Travel blog, journals and photographs from Thailand. Including travel journals, revealing posts, places to visit, border crossings, visas and photographs
What’s Loi Krathong like in Chiang Mai? So the day before (16th November) was the awesome paper lantern release that kicks of Yee Peng in Chiang Mai. So today (17th) it’s officially the national Thai festival of Loi Krathong. Which is also a part of Yee Peng in Northern Thailand. It’s probably easier just to …
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What is Yee Peng & Loi Krathong like in Thailand? I’ll cover a more personal story of how I got to the Yee Peng sky lantern festival in Chiang Mai in a couple of weeks. Meanwhile, while it’s still fresh in my memory, I wanted to write about what it was like to attend all three …
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What’s cheaper and easier, flying or taking the train to Malaysia? Decisions, decisions. I wanted to return to Malaysia as I had to leave a little to soon before. From Bangkok one would think that a short budget flight would be the answer. And it should have been. Only I wanted a last minute …
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Wat Arun is one of the nicer temples in Bangkok Granted I was having a bad day up until now. But things got better when I learned that the entry to Wat Arun was only about $1.50. Better yet, there was no one collecting tickets, so no charge. Late afternoon also meant that the heaving …
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What’s it like to have food poisoning in Asia? There’s a difference between “food poisoning” and “travelers diarrhea”. Quite a large one in my book. Yet the two ailments are often merged for sympathy’s sake when traveling. I myself have succumb to both. Travelers diarrhea is nothing new, and rarely gets me motivated to tell a soul. Food …
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Kanchanaburi War Cemetery is a place for remembrance and reflection It’s not so often that a place will bring a person to stop. Tourist thrill seeker, family holidaymakers, package tourists or independent traveler, we should all reflect on the freedom we have to travel. This is not the freedom of breaking free of a cubicle, a lifestyle nor a cause. …
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More than a movie, the death railway that is the bridge on the River Kwai The Bridge on the River Kwai sits in infamy as a classic world war two movie. Based on a fictional book by French writer Pierre Boulle, it features the construction of the Burma Railway between 1942-43. Dig deeper into this …
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