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JaYeon and I at MK’s
With my girlfriend back in town it was time to let her do the food choices, but i was unprepared for her choice today – MK restaurant, a top Thai favorite. Instead of a big post about the food, I’m going to make a very short photo ‘diary’, it’s what i do best. You should [...]
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Bangkok’s Malls
Bangkok’s malls are an experience in themselves, dazzling, mesmerizing, sometimes perplexing and regularly disorienting. When you step of the BTS Skytrain at Siam squares station you have a multitude of maze like walkways conveniently leading you in to one of the many malls available – the Siam Center/Siam Discovery Center, MBK Center and Siam Paragon. [...]
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In the Jungle
Ok, for this post we are going to need some jungle drums:
Dum Ba-dum Ba-dum Ba-dum Ba-dum Ba-dum Ba-dum
Ahh the jungle! The most beautiful and captivating of environments, they truly are the most prominent edifices to Mother Nature’s powers. For centuries the words of men have painted dark and terrifying images of those shadowy worlds. Those places where beasts [...]
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Stick thin
Thailand is the fast-food capital of the world. Hands down, it beats every other contender. The McDonalds-scoffing people of the West don’t even have the slightest clue what it is to live off fast food. Every street from Bangkok to Chiang Mai is lined with food carts, stalls and vans. Every hour of every day [...]
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Magic Mushroom Lady
Ko Samui really was the glossy brochure British family resort i had been warned about. But “their beauty was not to be missed” so i went to see for myself. I arrived on the largest of the three sister islands and immediately headed to a more remote beach on the northern shore called Bo Phut. [...]
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Songkran
I peered slowly around the corner. Snapping my head back before I was spotted I stood with my back pressed against the wall and tried to think. Chiang Mai had turned, literally overnight, from a peaceful mountain city to a war-zone. Now I found myself cowering in an alleyway trying to work up the courage to [...]
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Best avoid the rickshaws…
I keep reading this particular gem of wisdom wherever I turn. I read it at tourism advice centres, on notice boards and even our faithful Lonely Planet. I pick it out of the hum-drum of back-packer conversations around me at our busy hostel chill-out room. I’ve been solicited this pearl by everyone back home who [...]
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Hey you! Where you go?
The constant cry heard on the streets, the shouts from tuk-tuk drivers and the taxi men. Good question, I think as I step down into the teeming mass of life that is Khao San road. My body, now used to moving in crowded Asian streets, ducks and weaves of it’s own accord as I proceed [...]
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