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Home |
Planning |
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Dubai – Bangkok |
Flight from Dubai to Bangkok |
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Bangkok |
Wee, Wats, tuk tuks, schoolgirls and spicy food |
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Bangkok |
Canals, dragonboats, massage, snakes and stones |
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Bangkok |
Government, Jim Thompson, Chinese New Year |
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Bangkok / Ayuthaya |
Bang Pa-in Palace, Ayuthaya, Massage, Happy Ending narrowly averted |
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Bangkok |
National Museum, Palm, River of the Kings show |
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Bangkok |
Gecko tour begins, Royal Grand Palace, Wat Pho (again) |
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Bangkok – Sangklaburi |
Train to Kanchanaburi, Bridge over the River Kwai, interesting room allocations at the hotel |
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Sangklaburi |
Boat trip on the lake, Mon village, swim in lake, long wooden bridge |
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Sangkaliburi |
Jungle trek, bamboo rafting, bizarre location for a film set |
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Kanchanaburi |
Bus with chicken, huts on stilts, first idiotic mistake, shopping by sign language and pictionary, POW museum |
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Kanchanaburi |
Hellfire pass, kayaking, elephant riding |
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Kanchanaburi – Nakhon Pathom – Trang |
Truck to Nathon Pathom, local temple, overnight train to Trang |
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Trang |
Thale Noi Bird Sanctuary, fishing contraptions, giant caves |
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Trang |
Jungle trek, rubber plantation, waterfalls, giant cave |
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Trang – Koh Muk |
Mangrove swamps, sea caves, dragonboat to Koh Muk |
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Koh Muk |
Exploring, more creative shopping, hammock engineering |
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Koh Muk |
Snorkelling on the reef, Emerald cave, swimming in the dark |
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Koh Muk |
Reading, trying not to move, making mental note to wear more sunscreen |
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Koh Muk – Trang – Bangkok |
Boat and bus to Trang, lunch with Charlotte, flight back to Bangkok, dinner with Palm and Wee |
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Bangkok |
Skytrain, huge market, dinner with Wee and Palm |
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Bangkok |
spent day with Wee, Palm and Bernard (Wee’s boyfriend), Zoolander, riverside, taxi to airport |
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Bangkok |
Caught flight back to London (just) |