08/03/2015

The journey has begun

As I am waiting to board my airplane at the Brussels Airlines Lounge at Brussels Airport, I was thinking that it might be a good time to start planning my trip a bit for the upcoming 7 weeks.  For the time being I haven’t made any definite plans except for my first week.

I’ll be arriving around 8pm in Bangkok tomorrow evening, so there will be no more buses running to Hua Hin.  Therefor I will stay in Bangkok for 1 night.  I saw on Facebook that a befriended colleague of mine is there too, so I’ll try to meet her for cocktails in the evening.  The next day around noon I will be taking a bus from the airport to Hua Hin, arriving there around 5pm.

In Hua Hun I found this fantastic hotel called Korawan Garden Resort.  It is in fact not really a hotel, as the rooms are bamboo huts built around the swimming pool.  My father lives nearby, so that is ideal to celebrate his birthday and in the mean time get used to the scorching sun again.  I’ll be staying there for one week, so that’ll be one week of sun, beach, fun, family and food.

So far for the already planned part of the journey.  In great lines I will be traveling onwards to Cambodia to visit Angkor Wat and stay a few days in the capital of Phnom Penh (mainly to apply for a Vietnamese visa).  If I get the visa, I’ll be continuing to Saigon (or Ho Chi Minh City), Hoi An and Hanoi.  From there I’ll be going to Laos to visit its capital Vientiane and the beautiful city of Luang Prabang.

Around the 13th of April, which is the beginning of Song Kran or Thai New Year, I want to be back in Thailand, in Chiang Mai in the north to be precise.  I’ll be staying there for a few days and then go somewhere else in the south for another 2 weeks of sea, beach and sun, this might be Phuket, Hua Hin or somewhere else.  The 27th, finally, I should be back in Bangkok, as my flight homebound is leaving that night.  That in great lines is what I’ll be blogging about during the next 2 months.

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