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Bail Hais and Bali Lows: This and That
I didn’t notice until I had to pay $50 at the Bali airport to get a visa, but the women at our Phuket hotel totally robbed me. I had 2 $20s, a $10 and a $1 in my wallet that they replaced with 4 $1 bills. I even looked into …
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Bali Hais and Bali Lows: Photos and Videos
As always, here is the multimedia from this post…. Click here for the full flickr gallery Videos: Typical Balinese Dance A cloudy day on Mt Batur, Bali A walk through the back streets of Ubud, Bali Geese in the street in Ubud Getting ready for a celebratiton in Ubud Carrie …
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Living it Up in Southern Thailand
After leaving Bangkok we spent a few weeks scuba diving, relaxing, looking all over town for tours, visiting beautiful islands and partying it up in Phuket. Oh, and my personal favorite…a visit to James Bond Island. We’re currently in Bali, Indonesia, and will soon be heading to Malaysia…but for now, …
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No Public Transportation For You. Next!
“Can you help me? I seem to have gotten lost in southwest Thailand and am trying to find my way back onto the backpacking trail.” These are the types of thoughts that Carrie and I have had lately after our visit to the Andaman coast. It started in Krabi, where …
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Living on a Boat and Scuba Diving With Manta Rays and a Whale Shark
The Similan Islands off the Andaman (west) coast of Thailand is home to some of the best scuba diving in the world. One of the best ways to experience this is to live on a boat for a few days, which we were determined to do. Unfortunately, the rainy season …
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Fuck It! We’re Going to Phuket.
Sorry, I couldn’t resist the bad titlepun, though I now know it’s actually pronounced “poo-kit.” Anyway, for years I had heard that if I ever made it to Thailand, Phuket was the place to go to have fun. So, despite having done all that research on tours in Krabi, Carrie …
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Couchsurfing, Timeshares and a Night Out in Phuket
Carrie and I hate the tourist scene. Plain and simple. So, upon arriving in Patong, the tourist mecca of Phuket, we quickly logged onto Couchsurfing to find a local to give us the real scoop on the town, the party scene and the best boat tours. After exchanging a few …
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Boat Tours, Limestone Crags and James Bond Island
As I mentioned earlier, Carrie and my main goals for tours in Phuket were to see the limestone rock crags that jut out of the waters nearby…and for me to see James Bond Island. Since I was a young boy, James Bond has had an important role in my life. …
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A Day at the Office and Abandoned in a Monastery in Bangkok
An hour and 40 minutes later, the four of us were still sitting in the basement, sweating, joking and swatting away mosquitoes with no sign of the monk. We finally banded together and went upstairs, where the monk was just sitting around. He said, “are you done?”
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A Thai Wife or Girlfriend
Another fascinating aspect of Thailand is the large amount of older and larger white men with young and attractive Thai woman. While some of these are surely a John/prostitute situation, many of them are in actual relationships. Everywhere we looked we saw these girls canoodling and holding hands with men …
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Living it Up in Southern Thailand…This and That
On our last night in Bangkok, I ate a fried grasshopper. We saw the end of a series of regatta boat races in Krabi. The price difference between an air conditioned room and a non-AC room is usually so small that we have just been treating ourselves. After trying to …
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Living it Up in Southern Thailand…Photos and Videos
Below are the full photos and videos from this post. You can also see the photos directly on flickr. Scuba videos: A Whaleshark swims by A Manta ray A Moray Eel Rough waves on our scuba diving live aboard boat to the Similan Islands in Thailand The rest of the …
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Welcome to Thailand – A Culture Shock Coming From India
Throughout Southeast Asia, the astrological New Year is celebrated in the middle of April. In many countries, including Sri Lanka, it is a time for family, reflection and relaxation. However, we wanted to experience a big celebration, so we moved up our plans and booked a flight to Bangkok the …
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Celebrating Thai New Year With a Huge Water Fight
Thai New Year, known locally as Songkran, is celebrated grandly in Bangkok by dousing friends and strangers with water and wiping a mixture of chalk powder and water on people’s faces. Both are meant to be symbols for the substances used by monks to bless people and anyone who goes …
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Civil Unrest and Meeting the Red Shirts
Civil unrest seems to follow Carrie and I wherever we go. First we headed to India just after the 26/11 attacks. Then it was off to Sri Lanka where a 33 year old civil war was experiencing renewed fighting. Now we find ourselves in Bangkok, Thailand, where the people have …
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The Most Disgusting, Slummy and Awful Place I’ve Ever Stayed…for Five Days
A former whorehouse and home of at least two murders and one ghost, the Overstay featured shattered panes of glass in the hallways, toilets with no pipes, dozens of travelers sleeping on the floor and bedbugs galore. And I stayed there for five nights.
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Thank Heaven for 7-Eleven
We met a group of girls while volunteering at Sadhana Forest who told us that we would spend tons of time in 7-Eleven in Thailand. As we usually try to live like the locals do we could not fathom how this could possibly be true…until we arrived in Bangkok. Literally, …
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Meat on a Stick…And Other Tasty Treats
After the India/Sri Lanka half of the trip was spent with a primarily vegetarian diet, I was very excited to arrive in Bangkok and find the streets filled with street vendors selling sausages, chicken and beef on a stick for around 30 cents each. They make a great snack in …
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We Saw Other Stuff in Bangkok Too!
In addition to playing with water and checking out civil unrest, we also did some sightseeing in Bangkok. Our first day we headed over to the weekend market, which had more than 200,000 stalls selling everything from clothes to jewelry, handicrafts, food, pets and trinkets from the USA. Another day …
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The Streets of Bangkok: Water Fights, Civil Unrest and The Worst Place We’ve Ever Stayed…This and That
Not sure what we did to deserve it, but our flight from Sri Lanka to Chennai (the first of 3 flights to get to Bangkok) was upgraded to first class. It was awesome! The best pad thai I had was from a little old woman with a street stall who …
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