Phuket

Day 73 / Sunday 24^th May: flight to Phuket

We booked a taxi the day prior via the hostel at a reasonable cost to take us to Bangkok airport early the next morning. The hostel had had breakfast included the previous days and although the taxi was earlier than their breakfast ‘timings’ they still kindly provided with some breakkie – thumbs up! Taxi ride and the flight to the Thai island of Phuket were unremarkable. Phuket airport offers a few options for getting to your hotel. Prices are fixed (phew!) and it was straightforward to buy tickets for a minivan, which would take us and a few other travellers and drop us all off at our respective hotels. It’s a bit weird after that as you’re sort of just milling about but don’t worry – they haven’t forgotten you and you’ll be called when a minivan is ready.

Bangkok: Part 2

Day 70 / Day 29 of ATID – Bangkok

After disembarking our overnight train, we headed back to the hotel we had originally checked in at in order to commence the IndoChina tour with G Adventures, Bangkok Centre Hotel. After checking in, we went back to the street side restaurant near the station next to the above hotel that we had all had our first dinner together on the evening of the day our tour started for breakfast, which was quite nice.

Oh, the breakfast was really yummy by the way. And I’ve had similar at other restaurants in Asia after that day so although I can’t remember the exact location of the restaurant, that doesn’t much matter.

Chiang Mai

Day 68 / Day 27 of ATID – transfer to Chiang Mai

In the morning after checking out of our border-crossing town, we travelled to Chiang Mai. Now on the way to Chiang Mai, we stopped off at a very interesting, psychedelic (there’s seriously no better way to describe this place) temple in Chiang Rai. Obviously (and it’s been pointed out to me they’re mentioned a lot) we had seen LOTS of temples up until this point and yes they were super fascinating at the start and we did appreciate all the different styles but by this point it was getting a little disenchanting

Bangkok: Part 1

This post will cover a day in Bangkok by ourselves, and then the start of our next tour with g adventures, IndoChina Discovery, or ATID.

As this tour moved at a much faster pace than the other, occasionally one post may cover more than one destination now – so I’ll endeavour to not only write ‘Day such-and-such’ but also to provide a destination for each subheading!

Day 41 – flight to Bangkok

We flew to Bangkok via a rather weird route.