My Favorite Thailand Photos

Hay, I relised that I didn't put many photos on, so here they are!

The Wilmslow house...

Hi everybody.

I Thought that i would tell you about our house.

This is our lounge room.

Kitchen.

This is my room.

This is me rushing to the taxi, but this is a photo of the front of the house.

Till I post again,

Joshua.

England

Hey everyone.

We made it to England safe and sound, and we got a work out at the same time! (We ran a few kms through Bangkok airport at midnight caring luggage!)

When we arrived in our new house, we had some lunch, some tea, and then I went to bed at 3pm in the afternoon.

I then woke up at 2:30 in the morning, had breakfast, and waited for everyone to wake up!

That day, Dad, Kiyana and I went to a Tesco, (like Woolworth's or Coles) were we brought some groceries, and a printer!

The next day, Monday, we went down to the main shop area in Wilmslow.

There, dad and mum got a bank account, and we brought some other stuff.

On Tuesday, we basically lazed around the house, though we did do some school work!

So yeah, every things well, and I will keep you posted!

Ps. I can't post any photos, because we have only 3 gigs of memory.

So when we get our own house and Internet, i will be able to put some photos on!

We've made it...... well, almost!

Hi guys, if you read my previous post, you would of saw are plan, well everything changed!

We ended up leaving Koh Samui at 9.55 p.m., that flight was delayed 4 hours!

We then arrived at Bangkok airport, and we then spend the whole time running around trying to make it to the next flight.

We made, thankfully, we then were delayed another 50 minutes.

The flight to london was very long, with no kid movies! =-(

I probably slept half of it, but the other half was still long.

We finally touched down in london, where we rushed again to get to our manchester flight, when we found out it had been boarded, and we had missed it!

So here I am, sitting in the lounge, waiting for our flight.

I will post when we arrive in Wilmslow, Cheshire.

Till then, tata!

The Flight Plan

This was posted at Koh Samui airport.


Today we fly to england, this is the plan, we check in at Koh Samui Airport at 5pm(9pm Aus), we then were to fly to bankok at 6:15pm(10:15 Aus), but we our delayed to fly out at 8:45pm (12:45 AM Aus), we then will take off at 12:30am (4:30am Aus) and land at london, at 6:30 am England time(5:30pm Aus), we then fly to manchester, we expect to arrive at 8:30am (9:30pm Aus).

4/3/08 - Choeng Mon Beach

This was posted from Koh Samui airport, so I will put photos on later when we arrive in england.

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Today, we went to the beach, we got ready, called a cab, and left for Choeng Mon Beach. When we got there, we saw that it wasn't a wavy beach, and what we saw was that there were beach chairs all over the beach. We sat down and went for a swim, the first thing i noticed was that the wate was very salty, so salty that you could float on it with ease!

After a while, we decided to dig a hole, and so I made this wonderful systym that alowed water to come into Emilia's hole, extept, by the time it was finished, it was low tide, and we could't get any water.

It was about time for lunch now, and so we went to the resturant behind us.

After lunch we went for another swim.

Later on, I saw a thing for jetski hire, so I hired one for 30 minutes, and took all the kids, and dad, for 10 minute intervals. (Dad came for the whole trip.) It was so fun!!

By that time it was time to leave, so we did and we went home, had a shower, and dinner, and then went to sleep.

3/3/08 - Big Buddha

Sorry for not posting about yesterday, it was like one of the relaxing days, so i thought it wasn't worth posting about.

This was posted from Koh Samui Airport, so I will put photos on later.



Today, we had recovered from and all the joys of flight, rushed days, and whatnot!



So we decided to go and see one of the biggest tourist attractions of Samui, the Big Buddha.



This is a massive statue that was build to worship Buddha. It was giant!



To see it up close, you had to go up 70 stairs.



After we had seen it, we went around the markets, looking at the different things, i brought another tooth, this time i think it was made of shell.



We then went then started to walk down to the beach, when we stopped at the Admiral Lord Nelson, where we had a drink, and then played a few games of pool. We then decided that we would go to the beech tomorrow, and so we called a taxi, and went home.

28/2/08, 29/2/08, 1/3/08 - The relaxation days!

On the 28, we flew to Samui. It took about 1 hour to get there.

When we arrived, we got our bags, then got a taxi to where we were staying, number 1 of the palm villas.
We then settled in, and then we went for a swim in the pool.



We then went to the grocery store, where we had dinner, and then shopped.



On the 29, dad decided that we would just relax today, so all we did was swim, watch TV, and read books, nothing real exiting.



On the 1, we moved villas, we moved to a better villa, that had a private pool!



Wen it came time for dinner, we went down the road to a restaurant, i had a pork soup, and half way through the meal, i realised that i was eating pig intestines. Urk!! I ate everything but the meat after that! We then went home and went to sleep.

27/2/08 - Safari World

Please note,this post just changed when I corected it, I will add more photos, and format it tomorow.

Thanks for reading, Joshua Dowse





Today was our last full day in Bangkok, as we were going to Koh Samui the next morning.

We had a quick breakfast, and then went down stair where our tour guide, Pan, was waiting for us, we hopped on our bus and went to a place called Safari World.

We arrived at the main entrance, and our tour guide told us to go to the toilet, and so on the way, we saw this sign that said the toilets were the best public toilet of the year!

They were pretty cool, they were set up like a jungle!

Any way, we hopped back onto the bus and we went on an African safari, in a man made environment, in Thailand!

First we saw zebras, rhinos, camels, giraffes, deer, buffalo, and many more!

Then we came to the dangerous animal section, we went through two automatic doors, and then we saw a whole heap of……….………… Lions!

Now I've seen heaps of lions at zoos and place like that, but I've never drove next to them, an arms reach out of the window! It was pretty awesome!

We kept on driving till we came to tiger country. We drove past a heap of tiger all relaxing, they were very cool, they were just like your average house cat, except 10 times bigger!

We then drove to a place where they were keeping two lions, and two tigers, and what they were trying to do was breed a liger, or tion, I can't remember?!?!?

After that we passed black bears, and a few more animals that were in the first section. We then drove back to the main entrance and entered the site.

In Safari World, they do lots of shows throughout the day, and our first show was the orangutan show. In this show they trained orangutans to play music, go down flying foxes, and Thai kick box! It was very funny.

The next show was the sea lion show, the sea lions did flips, jumped high in the air, and did tricks.

After the sea lion show, it was time for the bird show, they got birds to take and give back money, add numbers, score soccer goals, and speak in two different languages.

After that, we stopped for a buffet lunch.

After lunch, we saw the dolphin show, in the dolphin show, the dolphins jumped over bars, hula hoped, hit beach balls into the audience, touch balls 3 meters in the air, and break danced. After the dolphins, belugas came out, they sung, and gave one of the trainers a ride.

After the dolphin show, there was the spy wars show, a show filled with special effects, such as exploding chemicals, guns, jet skies and much more.

The last show was the elephant show. In this the elephants danced, shoot darts, and played penalty shoot out.

After they let people sit on at the front of the elephant, and Jakob got to do the whole time, he also got to go on one with no trainer, and got 2 rides around the ring!

By this time it was about 4:10pm, and it was time to leave, so we hopped back into the van and went back to our hotel, where we go ready to move to Koh Samui, had dinner, and went to sleep.

26/2/08 - The Floating Markets and the Rose Garden.

Sorry Guys for not posting, we didn't have any internet, though I have wrote down my blogs on MS Word. So here we go.......

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Today we had an early start, we woke up and 5 am in the morning, had a quick breakfast, then hopped in a shuttle bus to go to a meeting place for all the tourist.

We then hopped on a bus and started our journey to the floating markets.

We first stopped at a place where they make coconut sugar. We were showed

how they made the sugar.

They also had a market, where I had fun bargaining for items that Kiyana and

Jake wanted.

We then hit the road

again, and on the way we saw salt farms.

What they did was pump sea water into these big trenches, they then leave them for about 5 weeks, or until the water i

s evaporated.

They then take all the salt and send it to salt factories where they purify and

bottle it to be sold.

We passed heaps of these types of farms and I couldn't help but think about how we

make salt, using big

machines that boil the water.

We then parked next to a canal (did you know that Thailand is called the Venice of the

East because of its canals?) and hopped onto a narrow-long boat that could hold up

to 9 people.

We then sped down the narrow canals. One thing that amazed me was how these guys turned the boats. You had to do a full turn before you could start going again.

We then came to the floating markets.

Kiyana was funny, every now and then, she would turn to dad and say, " Its tipping, its tipping!"

We then got down to business, bargaining for the items we wanted. I had got some practice for this, about 4 years ago I went to Fiji on a mission trip. We went to the flea markets that they had there and I got pretty good at bargaining!

Any way, back to Thailand, I brought a wooden Elephant, and a tooth necklace (which I later lost).

We then hopped back on the bus and headed for the first Buddha temple in Thailand. It has a giant standing

Buddha. We got a coca cola ice block, and the

cool thing about these was that they had 2 sticks to hold onto. (you guy might not think its cool, but I do!)

After having a look at the temple, we hopped on the bus headed for the rose gardens and, lunch for that matter!

We arrived at the rose gardens and went to a restaurant that had an all you can eat buffet!

After lunch we went to the main place where they had……………

…………… Elephant riding!!!!!!

We could all get a ride for 50 baht ($1.72).

We all paired up, and when it came to Kiyana and I, I started to get nervous.

We hopped on, and as it turned out, it was really fun. It was very wobbly, but very fun!

We hopped off and went to watch a Thai culture show. We saw a Thai wedding, Thai kick boxing, and Thai fighting skills.

After that we went back to the hotel, and later went to sleep.