We arrived in Bangkok with our motorbike, in the middle of traffic jams, experiencing the worst aspect of the city! Hopefully, we also met Mod who hosted us for a few days in her house in Sukhumvit area.
Leaving Prachuap Khiri Khan and following the small coastal road to the North, we arrived in Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park at noon. The park landscape is impressive. It is not by chance that its name means “three thousand mountains”.
Leaving Chumphon, we decided not to take the highway and just take our time driving on the coastal road to the North. What a freedom to ride a motorbike and be able to go everywhere! We went through beautiful and rather wild beaches.
The title of this article may be impressive, but actually at the latitude of the road we took to cross Thailand, the country only lengths about 40 kilometers!
But first let’s go back to Ranong where we arrived under the rain, after a week on the A…
After the quiet city of Trang, we headed to Krabi which is much more popular amongst Western tourists. So we noticed with disappointment that most of the people we met there were less helpful and smiling…
We arrived in Trang under the rain, totally wet and with no accomodation, and almost 6 hours after we left Hat Yai, due to the several breaks we had to make because of the rain. We stepped in Yamawa Guesthouse and we were so nicely welcomed that we f…
To reach Thailand and Hat Yai, the first big city after the border, we took the train! It departs from Penang (Butterworth) and takes about an hour to reach the border : Padang Besar which is also the terminus of the Malaisian line. …
After two weeks in Malaysia, we can already do a small check on the pace of our trip. We went fast, finally, in the different destinations we covered: 48h in Malacca, 24h in Kuala Lumpur, 4 days in Pulau Kapas, 2 days in Perhentians islands, 2 days i…
We could not be happier to end our trip in Malaysia by visiting the capital of Malaysian cuisine, Penang. So we alternated between walks in the city in search of the finest shophouses, Chinese temples, mosques, and the most beautiful street arts, and…