I'm here, there, ummm
Location: Ko Pha Ngan, Thailand
Local Time: Friday, Jan 20, 2006 - 7:18pm
Well, I did the calculations and decided to buy a ticket from Kathmandu direct to Bangkok, Thailand. I entirely skipped Delhi and Singapore and now I'm north of Malaysia instead of south as I thought I would be.
Oh, well. Bangkok looks interesting, but I was only there for about 1 day. The food is amazing. Best food I've had since leaving Canada, maybe even before that.
I caught an overnight train out of Bangkok last night and slept in the sleeper car. I'm travelling with an Australian, Heath, that I met in Kathmandu at the Buddhist meditation center. By coincidence, we ended up on the same flight from Kathmandu to Bangkok, and he decided that a week and a half on the beach on a Thai island would be alright with him.
On the overnight train we met a couple girls from Denmark, Tania and Laura, travelling to Ko Tao, an island north of where we are now. They left the train at about 6am and we got off at about 9am. I think sleeper trains are a great way to travel. Sleep a few hours and you are somewhere.
From the trainstation we caught a bus into Surat Thani, then waited 2 hours in town until the bus left for the ferry. Rode 2.5 hours on the ferry and then 15 minutes on a converted pickup truck with benches in the back, then another 15 minutes in the back of someone's pickup out to Leela's beach, complete with bamboo bungaloos. And I swam in the ocean. It's not as warm as I expected.
Seth and Ikuko, two people I met in Nepal, should be around on the island somewhere. I'm going looking for them tomorrow.
Local Time: Friday, Jan 20, 2006 - 7:18pm
Well, I did the calculations and decided to buy a ticket from Kathmandu direct to Bangkok, Thailand. I entirely skipped Delhi and Singapore and now I'm north of Malaysia instead of south as I thought I would be.
Oh, well. Bangkok looks interesting, but I was only there for about 1 day. The food is amazing. Best food I've had since leaving Canada, maybe even before that.
I caught an overnight train out of Bangkok last night and slept in the sleeper car. I'm travelling with an Australian, Heath, that I met in Kathmandu at the Buddhist meditation center. By coincidence, we ended up on the same flight from Kathmandu to Bangkok, and he decided that a week and a half on the beach on a Thai island would be alright with him.
On the overnight train we met a couple girls from Denmark, Tania and Laura, travelling to Ko Tao, an island north of where we are now. They left the train at about 6am and we got off at about 9am. I think sleeper trains are a great way to travel. Sleep a few hours and you are somewhere.
From the trainstation we caught a bus into Surat Thani, then waited 2 hours in town until the bus left for the ferry. Rode 2.5 hours on the ferry and then 15 minutes on a converted pickup truck with benches in the back, then another 15 minutes in the back of someone's pickup out to Leela's beach, complete with bamboo bungaloos. And I swam in the ocean. It's not as warm as I expected.
Seth and Ikuko, two people I met in Nepal, should be around on the island somewhere. I'm going looking for them tomorrow.
posted by Jaye | 5:46 PM
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