Saturday 28 February 2015

Beijing - Chinese New Year

I arrived into Beijing on the morning of Chinese New Year. It was so cold after being in Thailand for a couple of weeks! I got a taxi straight to ny hostel, I was staying in a tiny capsular room, you couldn't stand up in it! But it was so cosy and when we changed accommodation a few days later we all missed the cosy little hostel. 
Chinese New Year was amazing, so many fireworks going of into all hours of the morning. It was such a great 1st night in China! 
Friday was the start of our orientation week, we got ourselves to the university where we spent the next 6 days together, and met up with the other 50 people that were also on the internship.
The next 6 days consisted of ice breakers, receiving our internship deatails, getting drunk, being hungover and missing teacher training, getting to the top of the Great Wall of China, leaving training early to go to the forbidden city, lakers bar and my 21st!
The few of us that arrived before our internship start date all got on really well and we made friends quickly. It was so sad when we all had to go our separate ways at the end of orientation week, but we are all going to try and visit each other. 






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Friday 27 February 2015

Unexpected visit to Kuala Lumpur



So one day me and my boyfriend are traveling around Thailand islands and the next we decide to head to Kuala Lumpur. I was excited as I couldn't wait to visit a new city! We arrived late in the evening, our hotel was amazing. We had a huge apartment on the top floor of the hotel overlooking the Petronas twin towers. We went to sky bar for a drink, the cocktails were so strong and the club had its own private swimming pool! The next day we set of to see the city sights, China town, central market, shopping malls and butterfly park. Such a busy day, and so much walking. The last night we visited the Heli bar, it's basically a working helicopter pad throughout the day and at night turns into a bar. There is nothing to stop you falling of the edges but if you go too close a member of staff rushes over and tells you to step back. The staff are all dressed up as pilots or air hostesses. For a Friday night it wasn't very busy, but there was a live band and there was a great atmosphere. The next morning Simon proposed to me before we headed to the airport back to Bangkok! I will always remember my time in Kuala Lumpur..













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Monday 9 February 2015

Koh Lanta

Koh Lanta

Where did we stay?
We stayed at Lanta Dream House Apartment.

The room was nice and we had a balcony overlooking the pool. We were close to the beach and a short ride away from the ferry. The staff were very friendly to us during our stay. 

How long?
1 night

What did we do?
 Koh Lanta is a lot quieter than Phi Phi, we stayed near the pier as we decided to only stay 1 night. We sunbathed at the beach and chilled by the pool. On the night we went to a tiny Thai restaurant for food, then had a walk towards the pier to look at the night market and get some mango sticky rice, which was amazing!! 

Budget
100 baht for a pancake and smoothie
50 baht for a taxi to our accomadation
500 baht for the accomadation
70 baht for a papaya salad and coke
70 baht for mango sticky rice








Speak soon,
HanHan xx
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Sunday 8 February 2015

Koh Lipe - The most amazing island

Koh Lipe

Where did we stay?
We stayed at LeeLaWadee Lipe Resort

The room was amazing, we were based on walking street for wasn't far from everything. 

How long?
2 nights

What did we do?
 Koh Lipe is so far away, it took us 3 hours in a speed boat from Koh lanta, but it is definitely worth the journey. People say its the new Phi Phi and I couldn't agree more. We sunbathed and planned out next part of our trip on our balcony. Then headed out for food, we tried loads of weird fruits and tasty pudding street foods. Then had a few drinks before heading to bed.
The next day we sunbathed again, making the most of this gorgeous island. Then got a back, neck and shoulder 

Budget
20 baht for banana bread
80 baht for mango sticky rice
50 baht for coconut ice cream 
70 baht for green curry
100 baht cocktail
120 for a breezer

40 bath for papaya and pineapple
35 baht for coconut bun






Speak soon,
HanHan xx
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Phi Phi island

HPhi Phi Islands

Where did we stay?
We stayed in an tiny hut - PhiPhi hill bamboo 

How long?
2 nights, we arrived Thursday morning and left Saturday morning to Koh Lanta.

What did we do?
  We arrived in Phi Phi with no hotel so we decided to stay near the view point. There are no cars on Phi Phi so a man put our bags in a wheel barrow type thing and wheeled them to our accommodation. Our room was awful... right on top of a huge hill, bed was just a matarass on the floor and it was so noisy. We headed down to the beach to get dinner and sunbathe, when it got to hot we went to get a oil massage, then headed up to the view point. There were monkeys throwing fruit on the way up! The view point it quite a long walk so its best to do it in the morning or early evening so its not to hot. 
The next day we had booked a snorkeling trip, we had breakfast included and we took a long tail boat to the islands. The trip was good as we got to see lots of different places but we spend way to much time on the boat, I would recommend paying a bit more and getting a speed boat. 

Budget
800 baht for 2 nights accomadation
20 baht tax to get onto the island
30 baht tax to go up to the viewpoint
30 baht water
30 baht ice-cream 
90 baht Phangan curry
180 baht for an Indian meal and Nan bread
550 baht for an all day snorkeling trip

40 baht for an ice coffee on Maya bay
50 baht for pringles on the long
40 baht for a brownie
100 baht for fired rice and a fanta
200 bath for the ferry to Koh Lanta






Speak soon,
HanHan xx
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Saturday 7 February 2015

1 night in Krabi Town

Krabi

Where did we stay?
We stayed at Vieng Thong Hotel

How long?
1 night, we arrived late Wednesday evening and left the next morning to Phi Phi island.

What did we do?
  We didn't have a hotel booked so we wondered about looking for somewhere to stay, we eventualy found a dead nice hotel with breakfast included! We were starving so we headed out to get some food, we went to Crazy Bar, the food was ok but they got our order mixed up a bit however the music was good. Afterwards we headed to the night market to see what they had. We got pancakes and smoothies. When we were walking back to our hotel there was a Thai wedding happening! 

Budget
20 baht for taxi to ferry
120 baht for sandwich, coke and water 
100 baht for taxi to Krabi town 
45 baht a nutella pancake
450 baht for the hotel with breakfast included
195 baht for Thai red curry and spring rolls
20 baht for pineapple smoothie 
100 bath for a taxi to the ferry






Speak soon,
HanHan x
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Thursday 5 February 2015

Koh Samui

Koh Samui

Where did we stay?

We stayed at Akwa guesthouse, the accomadation was nice but the location was a bit dissapointing as we had to walk 10/15min to get to the beach. The hotel staff were very friendly and the accomadation was reccomended on the lonely planned guide. For 700 baht per person for 2 nights (7 pounds a night!) we couldnt complain.

How long?

2 nights, we didnt have long in Koh Samui as we arrived 7pm Saturday night and left 6am Monday morning.

What did we do?

On Saturday night we arrived late so we checked in and decided to go explore the area. We ended up getting completely lost so we finally found a taxi and got taken to Ark Bar, we ate food out, the curry was amazing. Then walked back on the beach to our hotel as we were so tired after travling 36 hours to get hear. The next day we got up 11am and headed to the beach. We sunbathed for a few hours then had a walk to find a nice place for lunch. Then went for a bit of shopping, we got a beach bag and some sunhats. As we forgot to bring suncream with us we decieded to have a massage on the beach. We both got 1 hour thai massages, they were so good. Then went back to our accomadation to get ready for the night. We wanted to go see Big Buddah beach so we got a taxi there and had food and cocktails at that beach. It was a lot quiter than Chewang beach there was barely anyone there.  We couldnt go up to the temple as we fogot to cover out arms and knees so we took photos from the bottom.

Budget

200 baht for a taxi from the ferry to our accomadation
100 baht for a taxi to Ark bar as we got lost on out walk
150 baht for food, I had Thai red curry and a coke
350 baht a night for the accomadation

100 baht for dinner - chicken cocconut soup
250 baht  for my new monster sunhat
20 baht for street pineapple
300 baht return taxi to Big Buddah beach
70 baht for food - pad thai and water
450 baht for a taxi and ferry to Koh Phangan 

















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HanHan xx
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Koh Phangan - Full moon 2015

Koh Phangan

Where did we stay?
We stayed at Island View Cabbana.

How long?
2 nights, we arrived early Monday morning, the high speed catamaran only took 20 minutes! And left 12.30pm Wednesday as we missed out 6am ferry.

What did we do?
  We arrived in Koh Phangan early, so we had a full day to sunbath. Our beach was so nice, we rented some kayaks and paddled around a big rock nearby the beach. The Full moon party and unreal, made friends with some guys from Amsterdam on our truck and partied with them all night until I got lost :( convinced a taxi guy to take me back and ended up missing our 6am ferry to Koh phi phi, ended up getting the 12.30 ferry so currently spending a night in krabi town and heading to phi phi in the morning. 

Budget
20 baht for icecream
40 baht for street chicken
70 baht for food, I had veg soup
270 baht a night for the accomadation
120 fried rice with chicken and pineapple and spring rolls
150 baht for dinner - Phangan beef curry and rice
120 baht for drinks and a bucket

150 baht for dinner - spicy chicken coconut soup and water
1000 baht for taxi, ferry, bus and ferry to Phi Phi islands
120 baht for massaman curry
150 baht zombie cocktail
100 baht for full moon entry
300 baht bottle of vodka
200 baht laughing gas balloon 
300 baht drinks and bucket





Speak soon,
HanHan xx
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