Thailand

W4/10 We get reservations in the morning for a bus from Krabi to Bangkok. We find an internet café to make online reservations for the… Read More »Shitbus to Bangkok

The longtail boat took us through Phang-Nga bay today, which was wonderful. We saw a cave with thousand-year-old paintings. We saw limestone cliffs, took the… Read More »Godless in Krabi and Ko Lanta

Well, we woke up and had a nice fight with Ooi Shie Ching, the manager of the Imperial Hotel. We complained that there was no… Read More »A Muslim Fecal Fishing Village

One of Mr. J’s servants picked us up at the guest house and took us to Doi Suthep, a wat from the 1300’s on top… Read More »Pai in Sukhothai

We’re at the Laotian border just ten miles from Vientiane, its biggest city, and we don’t go. I do the math; I want to see… Read More »The weird Wat Khaek

F 3/29 At 6:15 we gave Tang what turned out to be a wake-up call. He said he thought we’d said “between 6 and 7.”… Read More »Taeng on drugs

In the morning we took a bus to Ayuthaya, which was the Siamese royal capital from 1350 until 1767, when the Burmese sacked it. Its… Read More »Ayuthaya, and Lopburi, city of monkeys

We went to Wat Phra Kaew (Temple of the Emerald Buddha) and the Grand Palace, from 1782, the first ear of Bangkok rule by Rama… Read More »Muay Thai Boxing for kids

At breakfast we saw Rana and Engin and they said nothing to us and we said nothing to them. We went to the huge temple,… Read More »Wat Arun is evil

Instead of flying the swanky Turkish Airlines ($599 direct to Bangkok), we chose Turkmenistan Airlines‘ $431 blue-light special (no website), with a stopover in Ashgabad.… Read More »Turkmenistan Airlines