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Post by bazfaz on Mar 31, 2010 21:00:59 GMT
My mind is turning towards next winter's holiday. it's early to start planning but I am feeling a lack of Thailand. Two places I want to go to are Koh Jum and Kiriwong. I have found a number of internet sites for Koh Jum but little about Kiriwong.
Anybody have any info?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2010 21:14:56 GMT
Hmmm... unfortunately you will not be able to obtain any information from me about those places. Besides Phuket (and environs), about the only place I've been to in southern Thailand is Trat.
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Post by bazfaz on Apr 1, 2010 11:52:10 GMT
I'm sure you could fit in a lightning visit during the next few months to find out about these places for us.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2010 11:59:08 GMT
If I go on another 48 hour trip, I now know that it is just enough time to walk from one end of Bangkok airport to the other.
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Post by bazfaz on Apr 2, 2010 16:54:44 GMT
Hmmm... unfortunately you will not be able to obtain any information from me about those places. Besides Phuket (and environs), about the only place I've been to in southern Thailand is Trat. I wouldn't put Trat in southern Thailand. It is over towards the Cambodian border. We spent a night there ten years ago on our way to Ko Chang. Perhaps you mean Trang.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2010 18:15:23 GMT
No, actually, I did mean Trat. I was really just considering 'anything south of Bangkok' to be southern Thailand.
Do you have a specific location in mind in the south? Not one of those towns full of Islamic bombers I hope?
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Post by bazfaz on Apr 2, 2010 21:26:30 GMT
I want to go to Ko Jum. Kiriwong and Sondkhala. I am hoping that Air Malaysia repeats their bargain air fare to KL for next January, which had an add on to Penang for something like 12 euros. From there by boat to Langkawi then up to Thailand. Ko Jum looks wonderful and I want to go to Luboa Huts on the North Beach. There are 9 huts and it seems relaxing with jungle walks and the occasional swim. Kiriwong I want for a home-stay and a walk a bit way up the mountain. And Sondkhala just sounds a lovely seaside town with good museums and seafood.
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Post by ilbonito on Apr 3, 2010 5:35:55 GMT
The Deep South of Thailand must be fascinating; I've not been there either but would like to. Have you tried . Someone there probably has the answers you're looking for.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2010 5:39:32 GMT
That's pretty much where a lot of us old timers started before wandering elsewhere. But I agree that the TT is strongest in its Asian sections. A lot of the other branches have withered away in the last three years.
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Post by bazfaz on Apr 3, 2010 6:48:06 GMT
The TT Asia branch did have a bit on Ko Jum but the links people posted I already had. I am glad to say that Kiriwong drew a blank so it is not in favour as a place to visit; but Google did throw up an interesting blog by an American woman who was marrying a man in Kiriwong. Sondkhala is a recent thought of mine and I have done little except read my outdated guide books.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2010 12:11:31 GMT
Now that there's a new state of emergency in Thailand after the redshirts stormed parliament this morning, that always has a beneficial effect on visitors who go there anyway. The crowds will diminish considerably.
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Post by bazfaz on Apr 8, 2010 14:12:02 GMT
Now that there's a new state of emergency in Thailand after the redshirts stormed parliament this morning, that always has a beneficial effect on visitors who go there anyway. The crowds will diminish considerably. Budget conscious travellers buy their flights months in advance when they are cheapest. A riot won't deter them. There are, of course, the nervous half dozen who post about the Bangkok situation on TT. Seemingly none of them read the other threads and post the same question again and again.
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Post by hwinpp on Apr 24, 2010 3:46:23 GMT
Who knows what January will bring?
Have no recent info on any Thai islands I was on Phuket and Samui in '87, never went back to either.
I quite liked the inland deep south, did a small trip there before the situation worsened, heading to Yala from Kota Baru to Had Yai, to Satun and then into the hills at Betong from where I reentered Malaysia.
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