Sunday, 18 Jan 2009 | Views [413] | Comments [2]
After another overnight bus journey we arrived in Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand. A city in the loosest sense of the word, the atmosphere is relaxed and more like an overgrown village in the old town area, which is enclosed in a square moat. The main ... Read more >
Wednesday, 14 Jan 2009 | Views [302]
Bangkok was another pleasant surprise. It was a lot more laid back than I had remembered it, and seemed so much more orderly and clean now, having experienced Indian cities. We had taken one of the overnight 'VIP' buses (not buses for nobility or celebrities ... Read more >
Friday, 9 Jan 2009 | Views [414]
We arrived in Krabi town on the afternoon of Christmas Eve. By then we had been on an overnight train and a five hour journey in a cramped minibus and were ready for a relaxing Christmas drink on the beach. The last leg of the journey was a taxi to ... Read more >