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freebooter posted:This isn't my regular GP, it's a specialist travel doctor I had to go see because his clinic is the only one in my city that can do yellow fever vaccinations (which is for the African leg of my trip, not the Asian one, before anyone pegs me as a hypochondriac). Most of those travel doctors are just out to make money dude. I took a list of injections/medications that my parents (they're both gp's) said were vital & all I'd need for s/e asia & s/america and they tried to fleece me each time for another hundred bucks or so of 'oh BUT THERE'S THIS ONE SPIDER/BUG which may carry this SCARY DISEASE which you need EXPENSIVE SHOT for rah rah rah.' I'd only take the anti-malarials if you're gonna be deep in the amazon in s/america or in the middle of nowhere in asia 
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The tiger temple there is ok, I was there not too long ago, but it's not hugely special or anything. The tigers are all pretty zonked out from eating and just sit there yawning while the guide person takes pictures of you with them, they make you sign a piece of paper which says it's your fault if you get eaten by one of them and not their responsibility lol, they didn't seem to notice we all wrote poo poo like donald duck in the name section of ours. If you're gonna go there don't take the minibus tours from bangkok, splitting a cab fare then bus to the tigers/bridge will be way cheaper. Rafting could probably be fun but it's not white water rapids or anything.. so I guess I'd skip it and the floating market place near it as well (it sucks big time) oh sorry i just re-read that post correctly, why not elephant riding? it's badass & there's fuckall else to do in that town Noir desir fucked around with this message at 10:01 on Feb 11, 2010 |
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Yeah, I'd go for one, I mean don't carry it everyday (I just carry enough cash in my pocket for whatever I'm doing & a ride home/dinner etc and leave passport/credit card locked in the hostel but never bothered with the fake wallet or whatever) but I found it really useful for peace of mind when on a bus or in a plane or airport or something because I'm really absent minded and tend to just leave stuff sitting somewhere if I don't have somewhere to put it. After i left my passport + a hundred or so $us in a netcafe in an airport for a few hours once I just found it so much easier to wear the stupid looking thing when I'm on the move between place to place
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Shampy posted:Anyone care to recommend a hostel on Phuket? We're trying to kill some time before we head out to the Full Moon party on the 23rd and want to lounge around on a nice, quiet beach. If there's a better beach to head out to then we're all ears for that too. We're trying to spend between 400-500 baht for a twin room. Did you want to go to Patong beach, or somewhere else? I stayed here on Patong, it was probably the best hostel I stayed in apart from lub-d in Bangkok. I was only there for one night but it was a really nice little place, was easy to meet people in the common room & was really clean and had useful facilities etc. The lady who ran it was super cool as well, I should've left in the morning but she took pity on me when I woke up with a colossal hangover (the first time I'd been really sick in Thailand, was on the last day of my trip as well..) & let me laze round in bed/at the beach until my flight at midnight despite the check-out time being at like 10am. Patong is kind of horrible though, the 'clubs' were full of stereotypical ugly/loud British people & the on the beach you'll see enough fat German dudes with no pants on to last you quite a long time. i would recommend somewhere else but didn't get the chance to explore further :/ Noir desir fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Oct 13, 2010 |
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Pompous Rhombus posted:Pretty much no local people will take exception to you wearing shorts (unless you're visiting a temple or somewhere otherwise unusually classy), but you'll notice local men overwhelmingly wear trousers themselves. Despite not being as wealthy as developed countries, people in SEA still place a lot of value on appearance; as a (presumably) Western tourist your generally aren't expected to fit in that much, but it's easier to come off as a "real person" if you dress a little sharper than your average be-dreadlocked hippie. Yeah, I would definitely bring a passable pair of pants, or just buy them there I guess if you only have a very small bag. I remember there were a couple of guys in a group I was hanging with who couldn't come to some neat bars in Bangkok (the rooftop one maybe?) with us because all they had were knock-off board shorts from Khao San Road (Think the 'billabong' ones which only say 'BONG' on them.) Even just those travel-style pants are fine, I was surprised at how human wearing a pair of them made me feel in situations like waiting at the airport or arriving back home after rocking board shorts & flip-flops for like a month straight. & I think this is more of just a pet peeve of mine, but I don't get why people actually wanted to wear filthy 'beer chang' singlets, or even worse, the ones with those same handful of designs you'd see at roadside stalls. Having a shirt that says 'iPood' or 'Sex instructor: First lesson free' just makes you look like a loving idiot. I don't think I met a single person wearing one of those who you'd want to have a conversation lasting longer than a sentence with.
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