Saturday, September 6, 2008

Week-5 Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam

The flight to Thailand was quite uneventful, it was on Royal Jordanian, now that surprised me t hat they flew that route, but not in the end as the final destination of the plane was Amman. Bangkok airport is interesting, first and foremost its freaking huge, it was a 15 minute walk to immigration, and i'm pretty sure that i could have left the airport at any time during this walk without incidence.

Cleared immigration without any problems and went straight to the taxi/airport limosine stand (these aren't stretch jobs, just private cars like honda's and toyota's), and booked a car directly to Pattaya, i don't want to be in bangkok with all the protesting, and especially the two shootings that have occurred, just don't want to be anywhere near it. Maybe on my next trip to thailand i'll give it a whirl. The driver was quite the speed racer, he was doing 140-160 KMH, or to translate 80-90 miles per hour on the free way, now the speed limit was 120, but damn if this guy wasn't going to break any land records he had set previously.

Took an extra day in Pattaya which is very relaxing, its a beach community/City of about 230,000, but the beach and view is fantastic, i can really see why people come here and don't want to leave, its absolutely beautiful, one of these days i'll come back and just make my way the entire length of the coast! While in Pattaya my immediate concern is to book passage to either cambodia or laos. Laos is out of the questions directly from Pattaya, so my route will have to be Pattaya to Siem Riep to see the ancient city of Ankwar Wat, then to Pnom Penh (both in Cambodia) to Ho Chi Minh City, then off to Hanoi, so south to north through the country of Vietnam, then off to Laos and back to Thailand to head to my next destination, which i'm trying to figure out, either to see andrew who is free from the 12-15 (don't think i'll be through to laos yet) or off to Australia possibly, been finding some spectactular deals on jetstar and tiger airways to perth, melbourne, or gold coast. So that would mean back to thailand, then to singapore then to either australia or the Philippines., either way i have to be back in the philippines by the 29th of September for my flight home. All right every one, i kept this one clean, but their is much more related to the go-go bars in Pattaya, i didn't realize that women has so much control!!

Thanks all, staying Safe As Usual!!!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Where are the Pictures?