Moooonshine

Laos

2011-12-03T04:59:00.001-08:00

So, we had to do our border run in order to get our 1 year Visa for Thailand, and we decided to go to Laos, here are some of the pictures from the trip

Us after a 13 and a half train ride to the Laos Border

Our train cabin, Paul looking quite proud of himself

Kyle and I being awesome

Crappy photo

around 6 in the morning from the train

Still very early, nearly no sleep was achieved, so we were all quite tired, except kyle

Tuk Tuk

This is happiness/friendship bridge, the bridge between the 2 countries

Laos Border

Thai embassy

AMAZING BEER!!!

On the way home

All in all the trip was rather enjoyable, except for the train there, so we decided to take the bus back, was much more comfortable.

Koh Samui - Random Pics

2011-11-22T21:27:00.000-08:00

This is my octopus balloon animal that I made for the class i was going to teach

Since I havnt been able to find some more pics, although more WILL be coming here are just some randoms that I have no place for

Koh Samui - Through the island

2011-11-22T20:51:00.000-08:00

Ok, so we decided to take another trip, but this time we went through the island, which is pretty dangerous, because of the roads and that, but we managed to make it, and I even have some videos this time XD

A glof course

Ok, the videos are pretty low quality, but I did that to avoid the huge upload which never seems to work, so, i hope you enjoy watching

Koh Samui - Around the island

2011-11-22T20:39:00.000-08:00

So, it did not take long before we decided that we were going to take a scooter ride around the island, which is amazingly cheap if you know what you are doing, and seeing as how the island is not that big, you can easily do it under 1 tank of petrol. We all rented scooters, and this is what we saw

An amazing sculpture of an Alien, made with cogs and gears and chains etc

Same thing but the one is a predator

The big Buddha Satue

View of the island from big buddha

another view

Yet another view

the big buddha up close

After some more driving wecame along this beach, amazingly clear water, and this wasn't even close to the best

Same beach, different view

Now, this little guy here is called Fanta, and i honestly fell in love with him, he was the most adorable little monkey that you have ever seen, it was just so sad to see a chain around his neck.

the beach near where we found fanta

Koh Samui - Day 1

2011-11-22T20:26:00.000-08:00

So, it has been a while since I have posted anything, but I will be posting a lot from now on, since i have many photos to go through and add. Anyways, our first day on the tropical island of Koh Samui was pretty awesome. It is everything that you would expect from a island, palm trees EVERYWHERE you go, amazing beaches, etc. The Hotel that we stayed at was called Save House, and it was a pretty amazing place, as you can see from the photos below

Our room is on the left

down the road from out apartment

up the road from our apartment, right in the middle you can see the restaurant and reception area.

The pool which we spent almost everyday in

So, we started going to the classes on day 1, which was quite hectic since we were all pretty much still trying to wake up, and others hadn't even arrived yet, but we went along with it and found the school pretty easily. here are some random pictures of the street from the school

Taking a walk back from the school

So, day 1 was pretty successful, there are other photos but not ones that I took from my camera so i have no idea where they are, if i find them i will post them

More Random Pics

2011-10-04T06:39:00.000-07:00

Ok, I know I haven't posted in a while, but things have been very hectic, and with the mount of pictures that I have taken, it has been a real hassle to try and sort through all the photos that I should use, and the ones that I shouldn't, and, to make matters worse, every time I have tried to update my blog with the photos, this blogger program would keep crashing, or something else would make me get over it, since it takes a crap load of time to upload all the pictures. But, I have now sorted it all out and am ready to continue, the pictures in this blog are all random things that have been taken, you may have seen some already, but I think you will be ok.

end of the street outside our hotel

The thailand version of checkers

The Checkers is like 4 stories, so they have these magnetic escalators, you can leave the trolley on its on and it wont roll down

(Like a boss)

Todays doings

2011-09-30T08:27:00.000-07:00

Today hasnt been too exciting, pretty much just what i usually do, woke up, opened the door, get knocked back by wave of 40 C heat, go eat breakfast, which was AWESOME, because i had egg on toast and bacon!!!!! I then had to go to the shops to sort out my money, and on the way back I found out from my room mate kyle that there is a temple just down the road, heres the pics

Found this near the temple, thats how it should be done, they are to hip for barbed wire

My beautiful watch which only cost me R40

My rainbow coffee

And the new girl arrived today, Tanita, we are all going out clubbing tomorrow night so will take plenty of photos to show you how it goes

2011-09-29T07:23:00.000-07:00

So anyways, Today was pretty good, mostly explored around all the little streets that you can find out my area( of which there are plenty) So anyways, I have taken plenty of photos for your viewing pleasure. So, take a look at them, and let me know what you think.

Some random very quiet street

what they were selling on the street (statues gardening stuff, etc)

next couple of photos are all taken while walking down the street, as you can see, there are little shops everywhere

The Thia people are very religious, therefor, their Ronald McDonald is in his prayer position

This is a huge shopping mall, 5 stories, and each story sells its own unique items, so, the bottom floor sells mostly food from major world wide sellers (KFC, Pizza Hut, McDonald's etc), the second floor is mostly Thai food and independent home made meals. The third floor is home decoration and clothes, the fourth is mobile networking companies and communication. The fifth floor is my favorite, the IT floor, i couldn't take many photos as you were not allowed to inside the store, but i managed to take these ones when the guards looked away(there were a lot more, but they were to blurry)

Taken from the clothes floor

The Thai food floor

An arcade, movie and bowling place, about 50M from the main mall(there are plenty of main malls as well)

Yes you are reading this right, Seaweed pringles, i was to scared to get any.

Coco pops for lunch

Drinking some Leo beer with my new mate Kyle, tastes just like black label

view of the street from my hotel room

Bankok

2011-09-27T22:37:00.000-07:00

So, trip here was terrible, the turbulence was so bad all the way from Dubai to Bangkok, I kept fearing the worst, I just kept waiting for that traditional priest to walk up to the front of the plane and start praying for everyone. Luckily though, we landed safely. During the flight I intended on sleeping during the plane, but due to the turbulence, that was impossible, every time I just managed to sleep a violent shake would wake me up. The food was awesome though, had this awesome bun and chocolate balls fulled with butterscotch. The 6 hour flight felt like 10 hours though. I sat next to this awesome old thai couple that were actually from Germany, who told me all about Thailand. When we landed I got my things and got picked up by Patrick from OVC, who took me by taxi to my Hotel, where as soon as I put my head on the pillow I fell asleep. Woke up this morning and had to go get a few things so i could use my laptop. I slept for like 13 hours. The first thing that hit me is was how hot it was, i was barely out the hotel when I started to sweat. But anyways, I found a shopping mall called "the mall", thats really what its called, and have now assumed that they are to lazy to find out what there names mean in English because there are shops called, 'the restaurant' and 'the movies'. Im not even kidding. As soon I got back i started working on my blog while skyping with my dad

Dubai

2011-09-27T21:56:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the late post, but the main wireless connection in Dubai was done, and all the other ones required a passport, so I am writing about this in my Bangkok hotel room. The flight to Dubai wasn't to bad, Just a 8 hour flight in a tiny chair, looking at a tiny screen, luckily there was no one sitting next to me so I was able to use both seats for extra space. Since It was night time there wasnt much to see, so not many photos were taken

View of Dubai as we were coming in to Land

watching some x-men first class, other movies were super 8, thor, Rio, and some other new ones

After we landed I first had to find out where on earth my next departure gate was, which turned out to be about 50M away from my current position, which I only found out after about half an hour of walking around. The Dubai airport is massive, and has mini shops in it that trump Pavilion. Unfortunately I did not take many photos as I was super tired from the flight and needed to sleep, they actually have these bed chairs but they were all full so had to resort to a couch. After 4 hours of absolutely no sleep, i had to head to the departure gate for my next flight.

Parts of Dubai aiport

This is where i slept, or at least tried to, on one of those green couches you see

Dubai airport as we landed (sorry about the quality)

Future Plans

2011-09-25T10:22:00.000-07:00

Hey all, so, I have decided that I am going to create a blog in order to explain my experiences throughout the next year in Thailand, I will still be using Facebook but this just gives me more room to do what I want with my page and to make the posts as elaborate as I want, and i will be able to post better pictures and videos from my travels, so, if you want to check out what I get up to in Thailand, follow my blog,