After countless planes, trains, ferries, minibuses, jeeps, longtail boats and tuk-tuk rides i'm back, all body parts attached, though i may have lost a few brain cells. Our five-week whirlwind trek around Thailand and Malaysia turned into just hopping around Thailand; the country's deceptively long and the pockmarked, battleworn roads rival those of the Greater Metro Detroit Area.
The inception of this trip involved many drunken at-the-pub conversations, facebook, opodo.com flight sales and a hasty conversation in the english department office. And thus, my coworker, Jon, my old (and in America) study abroad friend, Sara and I embarked on a mission to meet in Bangkok. Somewhere in the middle we dropped off Sara and picked up former co-worker Nick. And then he dropped us off at the airport and hiked into the nowheres of the Himalayan foothills.
We booked in January. We left on the 25th of July. And we sorted the itinerary three days into our trip.
For the sake of my memory, our whirlwind tour started and ended like this:
25 July--LHR to BKK via MCT (Muscat, Oman)
26 July--arrive Bangkok rock city @19:45pm
27-29 July--Bangkok
30 July-1 Aug--Chiang Mai
2-4 Aug--Railay Beach
5 Aug--Phi Phi Island
6-8 Aug--Kata Beach, Phuket
9 Aug--travel day from hell
10-12 Aug--Koh Samui
13-16 Aug--Koh Pha Ngan
17-23 Aug--Koh Tao
24-25 Aug--Bangkok
A few quick facts: the best spring rolls exist in Bangkok; the best lady boys, in Koh Samui; worst excuse for a room, Koh Tao and paradise on earth, Railay Beach.
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