Archive for 'Asia'
Lao Vientiane
Well after having a great time in the party cities of Hong Kong and Bangkok I arrived in the capital city of Lao PDR, Vientiane. What a shock this was to the system, the streets were quiet, the pubs shut down early and the tuk tuk drivers wanted about three days average wages to drive [...]
Posted: March 9th, 2010 under Asia, Travels.
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Isaan Region of Thailand
I travelled from Bangkok to Vientiane in Laos in order to get a tourist visa. I went overland through the Isaan region of Thailand and visited a few of the major cities.
The Isaan region of Thailand is quite different from the Chiang mai region where I spent the last 5 months or so. The people [...]
Posted: February 1st, 2010 under Asia, Travels.
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A Taste of Asia: Good Things To Come
Well I am getting seriously behind with my travel updates! Although I have recently been blogging about Chiang mai there are three countries that I have recently been to which I have yet to write about.
These are Macau, Laos and Burma; I have also spent some time up in the North East of Thailand (an [...]
Posted: November 12th, 2009 under Asia.
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Living with the Elephants, Chang chang chang…
Being in Thailand Elephants seem to play a large part in my life, the Thai word for elephant is Chang. I drink far to much Chang beer, like to drool over the Chang girls, and live next to Wat Lam Chang. Even my friend in China has named herself Chang; though in Chinese it is [...]
Posted: October 26th, 2009 under Asia, Music.
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