silviaontourinthailand

Finally I am home again after a long trip of 40 hours! My trip back home starts on Tuesday morning. At 11 am I am picked up from my bungalow in Ao Nang by a Songthaeo and taken...

On Friday morning my long trip back to the mainland starts. Quite early, at 8:30 I am picked up and taken to the pier, from where an hour later our 5,5 hour trip to Don Sak...

Our ship ride to Koh Tao takes about 2.5 hours. But as I meet nice guys from South Africa and three people from Bavaria, one of them speaking even Hungarian, time flies as we...

Today it is time to leave the North of Thailand. At 9 am I say good bye to the R.M.P. residence and Mister A, who had helped me so much in organizing my trip to the South. A...

Today another great adventure waits for me - ziplining in the jungle! I wake up early and I am very excited when the minibus picks me up at 8 am. I am the first one to be picked...

On Tuesday I decided to do a tour around Pai. Everywhere they sell half or full day city tours and already the day before I had purchased a half day tour in the afternoon. The...

In the meantime it is Monday, the 8th day of my trip. This morning I get up early and pack my big backpack which I leave in the storage room of my hotel, because I will come...

Chang Mai is the biggest city in Northern Thailand and has a population of 130.000 pax and its foundation goes back to 1296. In the old city one still can find remains of the...

On my third day in Chiang Mai I make a city walk with visiting many temples. I tried to put the names of the tempels later on underneath the pictures, but I don’t know how to do...

On Saturday the whole day is dedicated to elephants. At 8:30 they pick us up and we drive around one hour to the jungle and the Elephant care center. We are nine people, from...

On Thursday evening I was supposed to be at the travel agency, where I had purchased my bus ticket the day before, at 5:30 pm. I was there even before that, but, as I don't have...

On Tuesday at 6 pm it is time for me to leave the Mariott hotel and move to a hostel. From a fancy hotel to a modest accomodation - what a change! However I was really lucky to...

After a splendid breakfast at the Mariott hotel my friend Susanne and I decided to pay a visit to the Reclining Buddha. By skyway and boat we reached the Wat Pho which is near...

From our hotel we walked a few minutes before we looked out for a Tuk Tuk at Sukhumvit street. As there was so much traffic it took us almost an hour to get to the famous Khao...

with my favourite Austrian Airlines flight attendant

Monday late night my flight to Thailand started. We left Vienna at 23:20 and the flying time was about 10 hours. I was lucky in two ways: the seat beside me was empty and after...

Tonight my journey will start. With Austrian Airlines I will take off at 11.20 pm from Vienna and a direct flight with AUA - and my favorite airline and my favorite flight...

It is the first time in my life that I try to travel with hand luggage only. I bought myself a cute little women´s hand luggage backpack. I will be traveling for 23 days and to...

When I was getting ready for my backpacking trip to Thailand I browsed the internet on finding special advice or blogs from people backpacking with 50 plus, backpacking for...