I decided to go see a movie -- The local cinema was in a shopping mall at the next beach,a 20 minute drive from the resort I was staying. During the trip the driver repeatedly recommended me an "hour body massage with boom boom" -- no thanks :P. The movie itself (G.I. Joe) was not very good, but entertaining nonetheless. During the previews however ( Read more... )

By night fall in Phuket we decided to go to Patong beach -- A 20 minute ride from our resort. omehow we managed to stuff everyone together in a single Tuk Tuk, which amounted to 14 persons. Obviously, by then a Tuk Tuk is not so fast anymore. Night life there is pretty good actually, we had some fun drinking beers at the Banana Pub, then heading to ( Read more... )

We should've stayed two nights in Tanayok, but it was shortened to one, as some people in the group had a high need for something more luxury after several days of staying in simple rooms. So now, we're in Phuket, where we were reunited with the three other members of the group (who were staying behind due to illness) so that's a nice coincidence. ( Read more... )

WiFi isa nice when you have an iPhone with you, but it's not easy to write long texts on it. Also, not so much time to do so. So here's some catching up ( Read more... )

Today was a quiet day, as we took a bus to Kanchanaburi. It's only three hours, so it was an easy ride. After that we went to a museum about the infamous Birma rail track, which was built by POW's and others under awful circumstances. Very impressive to see. Now it's chill time ! Top Gun's being showed and there's WiFi here :)

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After arriving in Bangkok, we first took a boat trip, which led us to some of the more unpopular areas in Bangkok -- going through the canals, mostly in slum areas, but we got to see quite a lot -- Also on Bangkok's main river, btw. When we were done with that, we went to the palace, a real treat -- Lots of temples in that area, and also building ( Read more... )

Yesterday night we rode the night train for the second time. Like last time, it was a blast. Why? It seems that (almost) everything is possible ;) It started out simple, with some beers and an iPod plus speakers in our spot, but we ended up in the restaurant, plugging the iPod in there and playing music, dancing and playing Dutch sing-alongs until ( Read more... )

We visited the Elephant Nature Park today. At first was a bit skeptic about it since we had already seen elephants twice (and therefore almost decided to skip it), but it turned out to be really worthwhile. The thing we didn't know about the elephants we saw earlier is that they're generally not treated very nicely (kind of understatement). This ( Read more... )

So I've been back for a few hours now -- The four days of hiking/trekking through the neorth western part of Thailand were great, and also very tiring. The first few days of Chiang May and Ayuttayah seem so far away now ( Read more... )

Hd a bit of a quiet day today. While the rest of the group when doing some cable "flying" thing (Hanging on a cable about 40-50 meters of the ground, then going to another point), I stayed at the hotel (Heights aren't really my thing) and I walked in the city for quite a while. First to find some breakfast, then to the Apple store (Charger is ( Read more... )