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Myanmar / Burma Before & After Cyclone / Hurricane .. .. A huge portion of the densely populated coastal flood plain / Irrawaddy River delta has ... disappeared. With the governing Junta of Myanmar being what it is .. horrible situation.
We are pretty much at a loss for words to describe Thai Beaches or the Thailand Beach scene .. so, here are a few words & lots'ah Thailand Island & Thai Beach pictures + our Thai Island / Thailand Beach recommendations are below. |
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Phuket Blues Festival: Soi Dog Blues Band Rock on MySpace. Video from the Phuket Blues festival.
Road Map Thailand South + Map Phuket Ferry between Phi Phi Island, Phuket Island & Krabi Island (long tail speedboat available)
Exploring remote islands & beaches is the adventure part of a Thai vacation.
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Thai Island Hotels & Spas 45 w/Free WiFi near the beach begin under 700 baht, $20. per night .. Remote Island beach huts $3.
Thailand's best beach (??) is on Phuket Island & the Indian Ocean's Andaman sea.
A dressing room is behind a boulder & a shower is the natural waterfall!
Laem Sing Beach & Kamela Beach, just to the south of Laem Sing Bay, provide the best surfing in Thailand. This side of Phuket was devastated by the December, 2005 waves ..The tourist area just north of Leam Sing was hit hard. Several of the more spectacular home videos were taken just north of Leam Sing. Every beach front hotel was rebuilt from the ground up .. some beautiful resorts. |
I've seen Laem Sing pics w/ 10'/3m waves .. best I've seen is 4'/1.2m
Hey, I should have been there that day!
Look for a storm in the northern Indian Ocean. & here. with winds from the Northwest.
Mekong family's 21st Century SUV
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For short trips to the beach from Bangkok we now recommend Hua Hin. Safe, cleaner, more scenic and less expensive + Good 4 lane expressway all the way to Hua Hin. Hua Hin is superior to Pattaya in every way! A clean city, beautiful white sand beach & crystal clear water. |
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2006: We can no longer recommend Pattaya Beach, previously a recommend day trip from Bangkok.
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November 2006: 85 cameras have been installed to monitor the Pattaya & Jomtien Beach fronts. "Thai resort of Pattaya conjures up images of criminals on the run" |
AVOID PATTAYA! Pattaya is to be avoided at all costs! Multiple weekly reports of tourists being drugged in Pattaya bars. Pattaya: Gang robberies, drugging & assault of tourists are reported daily .. Pattaya Newspapers report Police involvement! Locals are currently referring to Pattaya as "Baghdad by the Bay" Thailand Newspapers Phuket Weather Thailand Time Wi-Fi / Internet Hotspots |
Feb 2007: 2 females, Russian tourists, murdered on Pattaya Beach. March 1, 2007: Thai man arrested. He has a history of tourist robberies! |
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On Phuket you can get a house near the beach for a month for what one night at Club Med costs.
you choose one beach / beach scene today .. tomorrow enjoy another, different scene or same same!
Streaming Phuket TV .. provided by Phuket Gazette.com Thailand
A massage on the beach is
wonderful .. hurts sooo goood!
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During one twilight swim near Karon (
Phuket Island, 1 hour south of Patong Si via tuk tuk), a Thai elephant
handler & 10 elephants came upon us on the beach.
We were 'alone' enjoying a "10 out of 10" sunset w/ no one else visible in any direction &
here comes a guy with 10 elephants truckin' down the sand .. TIT!
No idea where they were going or why, but quite a memorable
sight. I'm talkin' a "technicolor high definition" memory!
They were just traveling on the beach instead of the road
.. less traffic on the beach, makes sense to me!
Quite spectacular beach front along this stretch of coastal
road.
Tuk Tuk along til you hit a stretch of beach that meets your
immediate needs .. stop at a restaurant or pack your gear to the sand.
Ready to move on? .. out to the coastal road, 100 meters from
the flat beach, & wait for an empty tuk tuk to motor up.
Tsunami waves coming in.. before the 1st land fall .. viewed from
an Thailand Island hilltop hiking trail ..pics from
Khun Toi, a premiere guide
The waves coming in .. viewed from
an Thailand Island hilltop hiking trail ..pics from
Khun Toi, a premiere guide
so calm & serene the beautiful islands were that
morning ... December 26, 2004..
December
2, 2006: Thailand has deployed the 1st buoy in the Indian Ocean! Only small sections of Thailand were affected by the December,
2005 event. Pattaya Beach & Koh Samui on the Gulf
of Thailand are 100% un-affected ..
NO DAMAGE: Hua Hin, Koh Chang (Elephant
Island), Pattaya, Rayong .. Much of Phuket was unaffected, 99% of hotels
& restaurants are open in 2006 .. & are crying for tourists. The Pattaya City & beach front, on the
Gulf of Thailand, is like Santa
Monica on acid.
Elephants & tourist from every continent & food vendors & all the tourist
attractions / rides one could ever imagine. Jomtean Beach, further west from
Bangkok, or just around Pattaya Hill from Pattaya Beach, is much more
relaxed.
Some amazing beach front hotel rates are available.
Thailand Apartment & Hotel Links
Thailand newspapers
Have a yen to travel?
TESOL
/ TEFL On Phuket Island in the Andaman Sea you will find pristine deserted beaches surrounded
by tropical jungle a few miles from tourist dominated beaches. Our hotel of choice in Patong Si, a
900 Thb ($22., 18EU) per night hotel 1 block from the main beach. Break Point Hotel, owned by a New
Zealander & his Thai wife.
Rooms have everything down to a
video player & stereo system. Custom bathrooms .. marble with
lots of mirrors .. decadent shower stalls .... The folks in the $150. per night
Hotel must walk past Break Point to reach the sand. Excellent full size pool tables ( free! &
not snooker!! ) in
the lobby restaurant / bar.
If you have extra Thb .. that you do not want to
keep .. challenge the owners to a game of pool! Combination of New Zealand Meat
pies & excellent Thai menu.
Espresso coffee available
after 10 AM.
Break
Point Hotel
110/10 Thaweewong Road
tel (66) 19 - 344211 fax (66) 19 - 340718
I personally love rural tuk tuks rides..
Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive.~
Robert
M. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Phuket houses from 10,000 Tbt per month. ($250US, EU 200)
Map of Thailand's South ... on the Malay Peninsula
Thailand Newspapers in English
Thailand Medical Tourism ( the savings on 1 tooth repair can pay for an economy vacation! ) Thai Contact Email
PHUKET, Thailand (Reuters) - A government marketing blitz and range of cheap room deals are luring tourists back to Thailand's hard-hit Andaman coast, but visitor numbers are still well down on a year ago, hotel operators say.
Months after the killer wave, occupancy rates on the resort island of Phuket, which has 32,000 rooms, had hit 40 percent from single digits in January but were still well under the 75 percent reached last March, Phuket Hotel Association chief Pattanapong Aikwanich told Reuters.
On Phuket you can get a house near the beach for a month for what one night at Club Med costs.
Thai Hotels near the beach are under 700 baht, $20. per night as low as 400 baht, $10 per night.
For 22000 baht ( $600. )per month you can have a 2 bed room high rise apartment with a sea view in Pattaya or for 500 baht, $15, per night you can have a small hotel room near the beach.
