Our flight was on Thai Airways; yet another Asian airline that knows service. The flight crew was extremely attentive, the airplane spotlessly clean, and the alcohol completely free. Sipping on a small pre-dinner vodka and orange juice, then a during-dinner one was a rather perfect way to relax and enjoy the flight. The meal, which [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Thailand’
Kap kun kaah south east Asia, namaste India
Today marks our last day in south east Asia, in Bangkok, Thailand specifically, where we’ve been the last two weeks sorting out our visa and travel arrangements to go to India.
I think I speak for both me and jft when I say we are feeling a little morose about leaving south east Asia behind. We’ve [...]
“No business, no rice.”
I’ve known for many, many years — probably since I was a child — that rice is a staple of the Asian diet. It was just like that, a simple, bare and almost uninteresting fact, rice is a staple of the Asian diet. However, since jft and I have immersed ourselves in Asian culture and [...]
back in bangkok
So we’re back in Bangkok, Thailand, after nearly 3 months around Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. It’s hard to believe that we’ve been on the road four months already. We’ll be here for a bit so we can finally check out the big city, as well as a few surrounding places like the Bridge Over [...]
this is normal
While traversing South East Asia we have found ourselves amongst people who live their lives rather differently than we’re used to. And some things that are regular things for us while traveling – often things that don’t seem noteworthy – we realize are different than life back home.
For example, while living in Chicago we rarely [...]
eating our way through asia
So as you may be able to imagine (or tell from our photos), one of the things rIAm and I are focused on during our travels is food. And perhaps we’ve talked about food a bit on this site; we’ve definitely shown photos and made commentary on flickr. But when we had a question come [...]
Into Laos… and beyond
Today we are headed to Chiang Khong, Thailand from an overnight stay in Chiang Rai and six previous days in Chiang Mai. Although congested with tourists and traffic Chiang Mai was intriguing, especially seen both inside and outside the city moat from a motorcycle. We are sorry to cut our stay in Chiang Rai so [...]
our way or the thai way
We heard Highway 12, west out of Phitsanulok toward Lom Sok, was a pretty drive along the Lam Nam Khek (river). So we swung by the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) office in Phitsanulok and got ourselves (for free) the handy graphic map of the drive, featuring the places worth stopping. We also got the [...]
