While waiting for my Vietnam and Cambodian visas to come thru, I decided to take a quick trip to the town of Kanchanburi to see the famous bridge over the river Kwai that inspired the movie of the same name. Of course it’s not the actual bridge of the movie…first, the movie was shot...
After hanging out on the islands, I figured it was time to finally move to Bangkok itself. I arrived on the overnight train, and found a local bus to take me to Khao San road. This is the central location for every dirty backpacker in all of SE Asia. It’s a huge...
I’ve moved on to the island of Ko Samui. This is a much more touristic island than Phi Phi, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. There is so much to do here that I think you could spend two or three weeks seeing everything! I’m staying at a beach on the northern part of...
I spent yesterday going to the Ang Thong national marine park. This area is a bunch of islands that are mostly uninhabited, and fairly small. The standard tour starts out somewhere on Ko Samui, and then you take a relaxing boat ride out a couple of hours to the archipelago of about 40 islands. Once...
After three long days of traveling I’ve arrive in Thailand finally. I’ve based myself on the island of Ko Phi Phi. I’m staying on long beach, which is around the back side of the island from the main harbor and ferry stop. Getting between the main town and our beach requires a taxi ride in...
Pulau Weh is a small island at the very northern tip of Sumatra. I’d heard that it offered some of the best diving in the area, and that hardly anyone went there…that was enough for me, so I decided to head up there to check it out. From the town of Medan it...
