Songthaew public transportation. These are great and can get pretty crowded.
Our first introduction to Thailand couldn't be better. Perfect secluded beaches, interesting history, caves, and fun in the city!
Old posts from my very first travel website and my first backpacking trip (a year in 2000-2001)! We love Thailand. The Thais sure know how to have fun!
Briefly, here’s what we’ve done so far...
First we spent a week on an almost deserted beautiful tropical island. We were the only tourists there for the first 2 days, then about 10 more people arrived to share the island with us. Great snorkeling, and we swam through a cave to a hidden beach!
They were just opening for the season so they had to get one bungalow cleaned up for us once we got there.
Plywood floors.
We had this beautiful beach all to ourselves!
I got a kick out of this boat driver's outfit.
On Koh Muk, this is a cave that you can only swim through in low tide to get to an enclosed secret beach.
Then stayed in a floating hotel room on the River Khwae. Saw the bridge, saw the movie, and learned a lot about the POWs from WW2 and what they went through.
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Kanchanaburi, the River Kwai, and the Bridge Over It.
Also did an elephant ride through the forest and saw some beautiful waterfalls and caves. This is a really fun place! They have floating restaurants and discos that cruise up and down the river with really bad karaoke blasting away everyone along the river.
That's the actual bridge over the river Kwai.
The death railway on the river Kwai. So much sad history but very interesting, including the JEATH War Musseum.
Now we are in Bangkok livin’ it up. We are spoiling ourselves here for not a lot of money.
Love the klong taxis in Bangkok. Only about 10 cents to ride!
Love the trains here!
This is a typical Thai petrol station. LOL