Travel photos and journals from across Asia [1997-2025]
Thailand travel
The second half of 2021 has been no better than the first in terms of traveling or freedom of movement. Thailand started to get its Covid numbers under control and it commenced its vaccination rollout during the third quarter. I managed to get 2 shots of Pfizer in September courtesy of a government expat vaccine…
The year 2021 has been a total write-off in terms of traveling. It has been more than a decade since there hasn’t been at least one OTRA entry in a given year for a road trip somewhere. The Covid-19 pandemic that began in early 2020 is still ravaging most of the planet the following year,…
We decided to stop in the Loei Palace Hotel for two nights since it had a big pool and was relatively luxurious. We’d been on the road a week and every night stayed somewhere different so needed a little down time. The town is a traffic clogged little place with tiny roads and too much…
I had read up on this place as it is one of the most popular national parks for Thais and somewhat of a pilgrimage to make the climb. Relatively unknown to foreigners, Phu Kradeung is a 1,300 meter high mount with a mesa spanning 60 square kilometers. There are no roads to the top and…
October is our month for road trips and it was time to find somewhere in Thailand we had yet to visit. Usually we head south due to our proximity to it but this time it would be a journey north into two provinces I had yet to visit; Phetchabun and Loei. Known for their mountainous…
Soon it was time to get on the road again and into our next province. I wanted to head into the relatively unexplored Satun province but democracy overruled me and the majority voted for Krabi since half of our party had never been there. Krabi The first thing you notice when travelling from a non-touristy…
Following a summer in the UK I was itching to get back on the road in Asia and sniff out some of those undiscovered spots in southern Thailand once again. This was to be a family trip, however, with a group of eight in total with differing agendas, so I had to go with the…
Our trip was nearing its end so we had to head back south, breaking the journey in Kanchanaburi and Ratchaburi on the way. Our accommodation in K-town, the R.S. Hotel, was a standard business type affair but the kids wanted a pool. I was starting to get an ear infection from swimming in brown rivers!…
Heading north from Sai Yok Yai our destination for the night was Sangkhlaburi, a small Burmese-Thai settlement on the northern tip of the Vajiralongkorn reservoir. The road twisted and turned offering spectacular vistas of the lake around every corner. We were staying on a raft close to the famous wooden Mon bridge that is the…
Following an extended stint in the UK it was time for another Asian road trip, I had missed them. We were heading north, past Kanchanaburi and on towards Sai Yok Yai, a National Park on the River Kwae in the western reaches of Thailand. The drive was a long one, seven hours in total from Bangsaphan,…
We decided to make use of the long weekend by getting on the road again with a truck full of tents, camping gear, fishing rods, three days food supplies, an esky of beer, and a paddle board. Since we usually travel south it was decided to venture north for this trip to Kaeng Krachan dam…
I don’t think anyone has attempted this before so four intrepid adventurers set off from a bridge over the road opposite Bangsaphan hospital and kayaked the river through town and out to the ocean, ending the 15 or so kilometer journey at Coco Bar. Along the way we witnessed a lot of flood damage, personal…
Seeing in 2017 away from it all on a secluded beach with a couple of tents, paddle board, kayak, fishing rods and barbecue. No parties, no crowds, phone signals, no wifi, no video games, no freakin facebook – what could be better!?
JAN 9, 2017: A month later Bangsaphan floods again after a week of rain … DEC 6, 2016: Three days of solid torrential rain, high tides and some lemon opening the local dam resulted in some of the worst flooding the area has seen for a decade. The video and most of the photos were…
Schools were closed for half term so it was time to wrench the kids away from the wifi and get on the road. This was our first unplanned trip where we booked nothing and just rocked up from day to day at different places, stopping along the way if we spotted anything of interest. We…