North of Vietnam (Hanoi-Sapa-Halong bay)

9/12/09 I went early to airport Flight FD3700 Bangkok – Hanoi , by airasia about 6.55 We reach NoiBai Airport about 8.30, the driver take us from airport to check-in at Prince 79 Hotel. After drop the bags we walk around Hanoi town. Here is very terrible about sound, the bus and the motorcycle make silence sound all time. Today I don’t shopping anything , just only make the 2 stamp wood. At 15.30 we walk to water puppet show, the show is good but I sleeping that time casue I tired hahaha… Then we come back to hotel.

10/12/09 Today we wake up and walk around to check the price and eat breast fast. Then we come back to hotel for shower and check-out, we just drop the bags at rest room of hotel and then we go out to shopping half day. About 17.00 we come back to hotel and the bus take us to go train station to go to Sapa tonight. The driver take the customer about 10 person from another hotel. The guide come to talk care us and give the information about the train and hotel at Sapa. Guide sent us at the train and we walk to find our container. Me and my friend get container#9 and the bed#23,24,25. This train is wooden train with air-condition and bed. Tonight we sleep in the train.

11/12/09 About 5.30 staff of the train knock the door for call customer. We leave the train and walk to the Laocai train station. Staff from Sapa Summit Hotel wait us there. The bus take us from Laocai to Sapa about 1 hour by bus, the road pass the many mountain. After reach hotel we wait the room, some customer to travel around casue they book the trip already. I don’t book it and we just walk to the restaurant for eat breast fast. This hotel have 6 floor, Lobby in 3rd floor, the room in on 1st , 2nd , 3rd , 4th and 5th and the restaurant in the grand floor is the floor deepest. This hotel have big area with garden. After food we walk around hotel for take photo and we come back to front for ask about room, we get room number 503 at the 5th floor. About 12.30 we go down to lobby to ask about trip to Cat Cat village(H’Mong). The staff let the guy to be our guide. He can abit speak thai. The Cat Cat village is big area village they have 70 house with 600 peoples live. They do work Farm rice and animal and hand make material. We spend time about 4 hour to walk around village and then we back the hotel. After shower we walk to the market for shopping the H’mong pants, the technic for purchase the thing in Vietnam is cut the half price if they refuse you just walk out, they will call you and give lower price abit and you still say no I don’t want this price and walk out, they will give you lower price abit more than before until you can get the price you want. After shopping we walk to find hot pot for dinner. We cannot find the hotpot resturant, I ask 3 girls student about hot pot resturant but they don’t understand we said, then we leave them to another way. After than they running to me and my friend and shout “hotpot hot pot” they bring us to Hot pot resturant, yes this is the food I finding. We say thank you to the girls and they also very happy to help us to find the resturant. We order a hot pot for 3 person and spring roll, this shop have show h’mong dance. After we leave the restaurant we walk to hotel with cold weather.

12/12/09 About I wake up and open the window to look the sunrise and the fog is under and cover with the the mountain. We check out about 11.00 and drop the bag at rest room of hotel then we go out to walk about sapa town. We come back the hotel about 17.00, the bus bring us to the Laocai train station about 1 hour and 20.00 we go to the train for back Hanoi by the wooden train , yes tonight we also sleep in the train.

13/12/09 The train reach Hanoi about 5.00am and guide waiting us and take the customer to send to the hotel, I knock the door the Price 79 hotel and the staff open the door for us, we just wait the time about 1 hour for room guest check-out early in the morning. Then we go the room and shower and 8.00 we go down to lobby to wait the bus to bring us to go one day trip at Halong bay. About 4 hour in bus we reach to Halong bay and we go to the big boat with other customer for travel by boat on the sea. The halong bay isn’t beautiful as phuket sea but we ok with the different place. After finish trip we back honoi by bus and reach Hanoi about 20.00 and the bus drop us at the shopping area. We shopping again than walk to the hotel.

14/12/09 We early check-out about 6.00 and go Noibai airport. We leave Vietnam by FD3701 by airasia about 9.00 and reach Thailand about 11.00. After I reach airport and hurry to open my mom “Mom I am airport now , and please cook rice for me, I am very missing rice” hahaha casue at Hanoi I all time eat only noodle , pho , toast with egg and KFC.

Chateau de Bangkok : Sukumvit road

This trip i was stay at Chateau de Bangkok, a nice hotel on Ploenchit/Sukumvit. The hotel in the heart of Bangkok. I get room floor 10th, room number 1003, the stardard room. I open the door into the room, the right hand side is room for keep clothes. In the room comfortable with bed, sofa, cable tv, and small pantry. The bathroom with big tub. You can check the reservations at http://www.chateaubkk.com/

Novotel Lotus : Sukumvit 33

This trip i choose to stay Novotel Lotus , Sukumvit 33, The lobby and corridor so dark. After check in, reservation give me the Key and then i go to room Floor 20. In the room, furniture look old and bathroom small.

Phuket town : Vegetarian Festival

PHUKET is the biggest island in Thailand, located in the Andaman Sea of southern Thailand. I decided to go Phuket for take photo about Vegetarian Festival.

On October 18, 2009 I go Phuket by airasia about 1 hour fly from Bangkok international airport. At Phuket town I check in to stay at Rome Place hotel, the small hotel in the town. First day I don’t go anywhere just stay in room and watch movie tv.


October 19, 2009 After breakfast, I take a walk around Phuket town. It about 5 km on the old town street. I spend about 3 hour to see the old house and old building style. Then I come back to hotel for rest and about evening I start to walk again to the fresh market , there closed the road for buy the vegetarian food all street. I went to the china temple name JUI TUI. Many go there for do the thing about china culture and the child to play the fire-cracker .

October 20, 2009 I wake up early in the morning and open the window to hear the sound fire-cracker around town. Today I can see participants walking in a trance. This year Phuket Vegetarian Festival in October 18-26, 2009. In my pictures is only the one participants walking . If I have long time I will see many thing about Vegetarain culture but for this trip is ok for me casue it urgent booking flight. I have plan to come here again next year .

Rome Place Hotel : Phuket town

This trip i went phuket town for take photo the vegetarian fastival. I choose to stay small hotel in the town.

Rome Place Hotel is small hotel in the middle town. There have a resturant and shop for massage. You can use wifi internet area lobby and resturant.

I get room V3 for stay 2 nights, the room is good , comfortable and clean and minibar is cheap.

Centre Point Executive Serviced Apartments:Saladaeng

This trip i just change the place for sleep at Centre point Saladaeng.

Centre point Executive Serviced Apartments Saladaeng with slogan "you'll call it home"

I get upgrad room from 1 bedroom studio to 2 bedroom studio cause room full. I use voucher 40P from expedia and pay the over about 150Baht.

This room have living room , kitchen room, 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom and 2 balcony view swiming pool. The onething i like there is the bath room have 3 big bottle for body lotion, hair shower and bath shower. Everything in room is good except Air-con in bedroom not cool

The breakfast is set 4 manu for choose, europe breakfast, japaniss food , sanwich set and another one i cannot remember. And buffet salad, coffee, bread , toast, yogurt, milk ,tea, fruit juice

Myanma : Chiangtung and MongLa

September 2007 , me and my friend have plan to visit Myanma, to the Chiangtung and Mongla City. We post at web trekkingthai for find 2 friends who want to go and share expenses about car rental and guide. We go Chaingrai north of thai by bus and reach Chaingrai about 7.00 and we go the checkpoint of thai and cross the bridge to Myanma state. Our guide wait us at the checkpoint of Myanma. His name is Mr.Sai Long, he help us about information to go his country.
Then he bring us to his car. All our trip we use this car and Mr.Sai Long take care us very thing. He take information about every checkpoint on the way. The car run cross many mountain, the side is mountain and the farm rice. There is pure nature. First day he drive car long way to go MongLa , Mongla is city closer with China, that place is casino city, food animal and prostitute. I dont like this city but it ok for spend one day for see the diffirent place.



Mong La city you will see the Chade Jinda stand on the mountain in the middle town. The Myanma Buddhism and stly is very sweet and beautiful. Chade Jinda in the night is very beautiful like big gold Chade. At the Chade you can see view around town.



We check in to stay in the hotel. Our guide tell us about at the night time will have somebody to knock the door. He said dont open the door cause the woman who want service sex they knock the door for find the customer. And yes i hear that all night.

Next morning we leave MongLa to go Chiangtung. Chiangtung in the past is land of Thailand. But about something problem in the past, we lose this place to Myanma. I love Chiangtung , here is very nice city with pure culture. Here have about 100 temples. Our guide take us to see the temple around town.

Tonight we stay at one nice Guest house. Owner guest house is cousin of Mr.Sai Long. Oposit guest house is Market.

Next day Mr. Sai Long take us to go the Mui Mountain. The car drive cross many mountain and sometime the road is repairing. We pass the old villa, on the mountain view you will see the farm rice on the mountain, everyplace of mountain the farmer take it to grown the rice.

On top the mountain is the old house of England Army in the pass. This house about 100 year old.

After come from the mountain we go many temple and then back to stay at guesthouse.

Next day Mr. Sai Long bring us to back Chaingrai. He give us for shopping at area checkpoint of Myanma and than he take us to checkpoint for safety. We give him about money for rent car and give some tip for him too. We come to Chaingrai bus station and wait the time to back to Bangkok.