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Wed, 6 May 2015 | By ben_rains | Views [213] | Scholarship Entry
I had forgotten the Thai New Year celebration, Songkran, when I booked my flight into Thailand. However, I received an instant reminder when I got off the subway and stepped foot in Bangkok, and was hit with a giant bucket of water to the face. Dripping ... Read more >
Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship
Mon, 4 May 2015 | By absolutelylucy | Views [202] | Scholarship Entry
One of the main things I absolutely adore about travelling is those completely unexpected experiences that you stumble across on your journey. For someone who was Little Miss Organised at home, it's a refreshing change and has led to some of the most ... Read more >
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Mon, 4 May 2015 | By kimblerawcs | Views [139] | Scholarship Entry
My idea of meditation consisted of a lone old man sitting cross-legged, maybe up on a grassy hill. His mind is blank. This is not exactly accurate. On a warm night on the island of Ko Pha Ngan, Thailand, I was ready to set the record straight. Our ... Read more >
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Mon, 4 May 2015 | By zeerock | Views [276] | Scholarship Entry
Things to look for in Paradise Lost? Food? View? That warm cozy feeling you get when you found something special? I only had two weeks and half of Bangkok was under water. Trains weren't running. Island hopping in the south was my only option during this, ... Read more >
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Sat, 2 May 2015 | By emiliepb | Views [258]
Its not easy to remember everything when you come to write it all down here- seems there's always something to write and something to slip your mind.
One thing I forgot to mention yesterday was the fireflies, think its my first time seeing them, ... Read more >
Tags: jungle, khoa sok, trekking
Fri, 1 May 2015 | By emiliepb | Views [277]
We headed back to Talet Kaset II with the 'ticket' we were given the day before and returned to the man. We sat down waiting for bus to arrive, he ripped our 'ticket' up and stuck writing on our sleeve- which I assumed said Khoa Sok. Made me feel ... Read more >
Tags: jungle, khoa sok
Fri, 1 May 2015 | By nickhayesuk | Views [190] | Scholarship Entry
My journey started in a Pub in Dorset,where one evening I heard an older couple discussing their plans to visit Thailand for a family wedding.. 'I'm thinking of travelling there too' I said...we sipped whiskey& listened to the mans big belly laugh as ... Read more >
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Thu, 30 Apr 2015 | By emiliepb | Views [243]
We decided as we would have to sort out transport the following day we would head over to find Talat Kaset II and see if we could buy our ticket in advance, and if anything know where we were going the next day.
We found the station and bought ... Read more >
Tags: food, surat thani
Thu, 30 Apr 2015 | By zafirazalina | Views [154] | Scholarship Entry
While Travelling in Thailand I discovered a city on the Eastern Sea board just one hour out of Bangkok. Its's Called Pattaya. It was a simple fishing village before it became an R&R resort for American soldiers in the Vietnam war. So now its turned into ... Read more >
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Wed, 29 Apr 2015 | By wtarmstrong | Views [752] | Comments [2]
I left my house in Minnesota on December 6 of last year and have pretty much been on the road ever since. I have not set foot in my home country for 116 days, almost one third of a year.
I am currently in Koh Samui, an island in ... Read more >
Tags: beach, family, friends, italy, koh samui, navy, retreat, thailand, yoga
Wed, 29 Apr 2015 | By emiliepb | Views [328] | Comments [1]
Writing this a lot later than I should (again) so hope I get everything in. Also just realised I had these all set to being in the uk :/
So we got up very early in case we couldn't get a taxi to the train station, this wasn't the case ... Read more >
Tags: chumphon, night market
Wed, 29 Apr 2015 | By emiliepb | Views [342]
Due to our checkout time and how it lined up with the train times we faced ourselves a 3 hour wait in weather I wasn't adjusting very well to. As we had overslept breakfast I went on the hunt for food at the train station, proudly returning with a tube ... Read more >
Tags: food, night market, surat thani, transport
Mon, 27 Apr 2015 | By miligoswami | Views [123] | Scholarship Entry
January 3rd 2012, our third day in Phuket. Plan for the day, sail boat tours. The insides of my body, like a mashed potato salad, with acute food poisoning still lurking around. So of course, spending the day on a boat and in the water was a bad idea.... Read more >
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Sun, 26 Apr 2015 | By trigger1985 | Views [115] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
Whenever I was discussing this trip with people, the answer to the question 'where are you headed?' was invariably answered with 'Africa and Europe', and this is all very true. It was only the very persistent and those who interrogated us thoroughly pre-... Read more >
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Fri, 24 Apr 2015 | By mrripley16 | Views [153] | Scholarship Entry
I should have just kept walking. I was tired and jet-lagged and I had many more nights to explore Phuket. I don't know if there was a magnetism about the place that changed my direction, but I actually stopped dead in my tracks and did an about-face.... Read more >
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