BANGKOK 06

My actual travel journey started back in Aug 06 with my friends. Our first trip was to BKK (Bangkok) for a day and leave for Koh Phangan the next morning.

PIXS - nice bed of ours, lovely locals,crazy crowd in the train and Khao San Road

ACTIONS - Rush to Khao San to buy bus and ferry ticket to go Koh Phangan. Cost was about THB 800.00 one way. While waiting for our food, my dear friend was getting her hair pleated by these 3 lovely ladies. Really love taking pictures of local people smiling. Language is a barrel but i guess smiles across all country is a international language.

PIXS - Ferry Wheel @ Suan Lum Night Market, Hollywood club *some liveband thingy which operates till 2am only but anyway we did not went in, Siam Paragon, Secret pix of our TUTUT guy.

ACTIONS - Went Siam Paragon but found that city shopping was not to our liking becos in singapore we see shopping malls everyday. So we decided to visit the SUAN LUM night market where you can find clothes, shoes and all sorts of ornarments. Shopping at Suan Lum is like walking in between lines within SQUARES.. u will not be lost there but somehow the entire place will take you hours and hours of walking!

Awww am hungry and legs are aching........ finally we surrendered and had our dinner nearby.

One night in BKK...Hmmm.. heard that BKK have great places to party!... Sad to say we did not do our research well and ended going weird places that the TUTUT driver was bringing us.

***WARNINGS - This taxi driver was telling us that he know clubs that are still open at 2am but somehow he only made 2 traffic turns into a small dark lane & stopped his car right infront of a very dark doorless entry with 2 30nish guys standing at the entrance. 1st thing that came to my mind was that, how come there are no music or even lights??.. so we didn't want to get out of the taxi even thou the 2 guys were telling us:" its ok to go in to take a look, if you dun like it, you can come out".

Ya right! But am not taking any chances today. I told our driver that we want to get back to our hotel but he refuses (probably he didn't make any commission due to TOURIST like us did not fall into his trap :P) .... We were sO angry.. pass him the $$ and left quickly to somewhere where there are more people and with more street lamps. PHEWww.. safe!!

In the end, we went back to the hotel, watched FASHION TV till 430am, shower, packed our bags and left for Khao San road to take our Bus.

Way to Koh Phangan

PIX - morning scene at Khao San Road, Ferry terminal.

ACTIONS - Taking a bus from Khao San Road, they said you have to be there before 7am but in actual fact we only leave Khao San about 9plus.. that was really tiring especially we did not sleep last night.. But luckily the bus ride was about 5 hours or so and we get to grab a quick nap.

Sun was shining and the weather was great! Finally we reach the ferry terminal and the entire place was packed with backpackers. We waited there for about an hour for the ferry to come and it was another 5 hours of traveling by boat.

PIX - chilling out @ e deck, Koh Tao drop off point, scenery while on the way to Koh Phangan.

ACTIONS - As you can see from the pics, we were mostly chilling out at the deck on our way to Koh Phangan. At first we were sitting below trying to get some sleep but the weather was too good to be miss out hence we decided to chill at the deck and have our suntan. Bags were all dump infront where were sitting and getting our bags out was really terrible. But i can assure you that your bags are really save there unless you have a lap top inside, cos when you board the ferry, the staff will take your bag and throw on the floor. So do not put any lappy inside.

This ferry have a few drop off points - Koh Tao, Koh Phangan and Koh Samui

Drop off point at Koh Tao - A great place for people who love diving and snorkeling.