A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Ubud, Indonesia by TravelPod blogger Craigmorris titled “We’re Here !”. TravelPod is a company of TripAdvisor™. Craigmorris’s travel blog entry: “Hi Friends and Family – After traveling over 36 hours through Seattle, Tokyo, and Bangkok we finally arrived in Bali!! From Seattle to Tokyo the flight was over 10 hours, but we could not sleep since we flew during the “day”. In Tokyo we went and had some yummy food -tempura udon and curry. (Thanks mom and dad we used your yen) Once we got to Bangkok we had a 4 hour lay over so we went over to the Novotel and was able to get a room for a four-hour special. We got a little sleep and a shower and headed back to the airport. The flight to Bali seemed so long……by this time we were very tired of traveling. We got to Bali and met our driver right away and headed to the Viceroy. The drive took a little over an hour, but we got to see the little “towns” as we headed up to Ubud. Everything is a lot bigger than we imagined. Our room at the Viceroy is beautiful. (We are in the Garden Villa Number 8) It’s huge! Indoor/outdoor living space. It’s incredible. We got a late lunch and then headed into town. We wandered through open markets and little shops around town. We even got a foot massage to help with our swollen and very tired feet. Lots of shops – everything from jewelry, wood carvings, silks, to clothes. It was fun just wandering around. No purchases today though. We went to Cafe …
A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Ko Phi Phi, Thailand by TravelPod blogger Katieandphill titled “Ko Phi Phi (Phi Phi Island)”. TravelPod is a company of TripAdvisor™. Katieandphill’s travel blog entry: “The day after our bike ride around Phuket, the weather was absolutely glorious. Despite the weather forecast’s prediction of heavy thunderstorms for the weekend, there was hardly a cloud in the sky. We were up bright and early and made the decision to go to Ko Phi Phi – the island made famous by the film The Beach. Ko Phi Phi was also one of the worst affected islands by the tsunami on December 26th 2004. Despite this, Ko Phi Phi, or Ko Phi Phi Don as it’s also known, is quickly returning to pre-tsunami status as Thailand’s Shangri-la: a hedonistic paradise where people head to frolic in the glassy green seas and to snap pictures of colourful long tail boats puttering between craggy slate cliffs. We caught a bus to Phuket Town where we would catch the ferry across to Phi Phi. The boats run fairly regularly and we had timed it perfectly, the 11am boat was about to leave just as we got off the bus. We bought an open ticket that would take us across to Phi Phi and then on to Krabi whenever we wanted We opted to sit out on the front deck of the boat to catch some rays (Sun rays, not the big fish) and doze off for the hour and a half crossing. As we approached the island our peace and tranquility was spoiled by several other passengers clambering over us to …
A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Nakhon Pathom, Thailand by TravelPod blogger Clcatsam titled “Floating Market” Clcatsam’s travel blog entry: “A few weekends ago, Kit and I decided we needed to make a day trip somewhere so we decided to go check out the damnoen saduak floating market about an hour away from Bangkok. This floating market is little more than a tourist attraction right now, but Thais continue to have the market to preserve this part of their history. When Thailand was Siam food vendors would paddle through the c****s in villages going from house to house selling goods. So they try and keep this tradition alive, even if it is just for the tourists, because it is a very unique Siamese event. In the market ladies wearing the traditional Siamese hat would paddle around the c****s selling various things to other people in longboats, such as us, or to people on the sides of the c****. So Kit and I took a taxi all the way out to the market at 7 am since the market only runs until noon. We rented a longboat and he took us through the c****s and into the market area. It was a lot of fun. After we went back and walked through the piers again. After the market we went back in to town and visited the Chedi Nakhon Pathom which is the tallest in Thailand, and then wandered around the town until we headed on a bus back to Bangkok.” Read and see more at: www.travelpod.com Photos from this trip: 1. “Boating down the c**** to the market” 2. “Local house” 3 …