Thailand holiday

[Electric_Head]

I've tried to stay away from the tourist spots last few months, might venture a trip up to Laos and Vang Vieng for a bit of Tubing even though it's meant to be like constant Spring Break and full of foreigners

Go Kayaking in the Andaman sea
we saw maybe 10 tourists in a week.
And that was when we kayaked past a tourist beach.
We just didn`t use the tourist kayak trips.
Chose a small company called Rock N Row.
A guy called Bhey.
Awesome Muslim bird-expert/kayak expert.
We stayed on his home island which was awesome and quite.

Yeh, the temples are major tourist traps, not debating that.
It was just something we wanted to do.
We walked from the Reclining Buddha, crossed the river and climbed the temple of the sun I think it`s called.
I`m anti tourist but big on experience I guess.
I enjoyed walking around in Bangkok, taking the sky-train etc.
Experiencing Thai life.

[capo ultra]

sky train is big, river taxi is great too

enjoying living in areas where hardly anyone speaks English at the moment, really helping me improve my Thai speech, I can hold down a halfway decent conversation

need to knuckle down on my reading practice, can read basic signs and thai menus, but reading is a killer, specially cos they put random sounds at the end that they don't pronounce, explains why a lot of Thais do not pronounce the ends of words when they try to speak English

[Hircine]

Typhoid, yellow fever, malaria and dengue. They are pretty much standard for any tropical countries / less urban areas, stay away from mosquitos and flies. Also make water safe, avoid eating bad cooked / raw meat and wash vegetables due to parasites. As for the tourism part, can't really help, never been there ahaha

[capo ultra]

you don't need malaria tablets in Thailand

[mikey_g]

I heard its all about getting drunk with the SWAT cops, trying all there gear and gunz out, getting so pissed you cant stand and the cops still putting you on your motorbike and telling you to drive home!!!!

[jigglypuff]

don't go grand palace, waste of dosh

Grand palace wasn`t that expensive and imo, worth it.
I will add I`m anti tourist soI tend to stay away from anything tourist related.
We had to do the palace tour and reclining Buddha though, it`s a must.

One of the main highlights was a canopy tour in the Jungle called Flight of the Gibbon.

nout to see unless you're a buddhist, people ouside hassling you, tourist trap imo, can't see the attraction apart from cos it's something people do

flight of the gibbon is something all the tourists do but you can't go wrong with shit like that really

I've tried to stay away from the tourist spots last few months, might venture a trip up to Laos and Vang Vieng for a bit of Tubing even though it's meant to be like constant Spring Break and full of foreigners

yeah pretty much spring break for foreigners but not as bad as most places in thailand which cater to that crowd. hmm somon posted they went sea kayaking off phuket? I did the same one month before that tsunami hit a few years back .. all this talk makes me want to go back

[capo ultra]

I heard its all about getting drunk with the SWAT cops, trying all there gear and gunz out, getting so pissed you cant stand and the cops still putting you on your motorbike and telling you to drive home!!!!

mans squeezin back da chrome getme

[jigglypuff]

I heard its all about getting drunk with the SWAT cops, trying all there gear and gunz out, getting so pissed you cant stand and the cops still putting you on your motorbike and telling you to drive home!!!!

mans squeezin back da chrome getme

[Electric_Head]

hmm somon posted they went sea kayaking off phuket? I did the same one month before that tsunami hit a few years back .. all this talk makes me want to go back

That was me, and yep, I`d go back in a blink

[amick]

Koh Chang is really nice too. Highly recommend. Chilled and awesome food. Perfect for doing sweet f. a.

[mikey_g]

i really liked ko toa and ko phaneng. I found ko samui to be a bt pricey and touristy while the others were more backpackers n chillers. was 4 years ago now so is probably a bit different but i would def go back to toa and phaneng

[capo ultra]

Phanang's still cool, nice mix of busy and quiet

[noam]

all the places you will go will be really nice and if you want to enjoy wat they offer you will do

Phi Phi can be a little commercialised, you walk around and kinda feel like you're on a spanish island, but at the same time you cn go some nice places from there and do nice trips

Phangan is party island, go there to drink lots and have lots of fun on the beach at night

Samui/Tao more subdued, can relax, do diving, etc. etc

Bangkok, chinatown is incredible, food and weird shit everywhere on the streets, place is HUGE, dwarves anything i've ever seen, defo worth a visit, and i'd say go on a busy day for a true experience, whats going away without being bafled nd lost and eventually finding your way home?!

its a wicked place, decide before you go kind of what you want to do, and just take a lot of cash with you, if you're goin for 10-14+ days whats the point in scrimping like you're travelling for 3months on £1500... you can literally live like fucking kings and queens there for not much money

[Electric_Head]

Bangkok, chinatown is incredible, food and weird shit everywhere on the streets, place is HUGE, dwarves anything i've ever seen, defo worth a visit, and i'd say go on a busy day for a true experience, whats going away without being bafled nd lost and eventually finding your way home?!

First day in BKK myself decided to say fuck the taxis, we're walking.
We got horribly horribly lost, experienced a group gang bang by a pack of wild dogs.
All the dogs were standing around wooping at the 2 dogs stuck ass to ass.
Fucking funny shit.

But I`d say the experience of being lost and in a foreign country was awesome.
That and spending a few hours in Pantip Plaza with my wife freaking out at all the dodgy people.
Pantip Plaza was cool though, IT Mecha.

I personally think BKK was great from start to finish.
f-ing hot but an awesome life experience.

[mIrReN]

Well 2 days in Bangkok was more then enough for me, Koh Samui is lovely but don't spend toooo long in the sun (not more then half an hour) or you'll get burned like fuck...
I enjoyed it even tho I was sick for every day of the trip minus one

btw do the water thingie with those boats with a large soup mixer at the end in Bangkok, it's fun!!!

Don't go to Chinatown btw, it's no freaking China, if u wanna go to Chinatown go to fucking China