WHY DID I START THIS SITE?
On go forums I essay to respond equally many questions equally possible, peculiarly the repetitive “boring” ones which tire many regulars. And when I respond I essay to give equally much information equally I can. But I establish I was spending huge amounts of fourth dimension rewriting the same answers twenty-four hours after day. What I needed was a site where I could seat heaps of information - allowing me to give shorter forum answers amongst reference to the site for additional stuff.
Thorntree was no expert at the fourth dimension because threads dropped off the forum after virtually three months. The novel version since the Brit takeover is much amend inwards this respect, but likewise piece of cake for me - as well as displaying photos is difficult.
After a few other failed experiments I figured I could have got a spider web log format as well as utilization it equally a host for my go data as well as advice..
WHAT’S IN information technology FOR ME?
Why exercise whatsoever of you lot respond questions on go sites? Because you lot desire to assist other travellers as well as percentage what you lot know.
Vanity as well as pride come upward into it. I can’t believe how expert Blogger makes my materials hold off as well as I exercise similar the many cheers I get. I larn a existent boot when I regard how many people have got clicked on my pages.
I am non paid by TAT, I don’t larn freebies from bungalow owners - no-one knows who the hell I am. I am non a professional person journalist hoping a publisher volition selection upward my materials - AS IF. See below for the farcical amount of coin earned from Google advertisements as well as where it goes.
MY STUFF ISN’T REALLY Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 TRAVEL BLOG - I DON’T TELL YOU WHAT I DID.
Nope, that aint the idea. I figure potential travelers are non interested inwards reading a wearisome concern human relationship of my twenty-four hours to twenty-four hours experiences. They desire information virtually what is there, non what I did. So I exit that purpose fairly limited. UPDATE 2017 - this has changed: I've establish it much easier writing recent post such equally SICHON to process it equally a WHAT I DID thing. This is largely because I'm getting agency likewise former to ride the wheel some other 10km provide to regard i to a greater extent than waterfall (which is in all likelihood no amend than the dozens I've seen inwards SE Asia) or riding the motorbike 40km provide to banking concern jibe that northern most beach (if I tin flaming observe a house which rents motorcycles).
WHAT ABOUT THE ADVERTISING?
three reasons why I have got the adverts:
- As a give cheers you lot to Google for hosting the site. They exercise it for free, other than the coin they brand when people click their ads. I don't believe inwards a costless dejeuner - if Google doesn’t brand money, it won’t offering the service.
- Google Adsense gives me a rattling expert page counter agency superior to tertiary parties if I display their ads. This is the agency I regard how many people are reading my stuff. Like whatsoever author, I’m existent curious virtually this.
- To brand heaps of coin so I tin flaming upgrade the '57 Eldo to a 911 GT3. Kidding - Adsense Reports say me that over the past times calendar week I have got had 3321 pages read, nineteen ads clicked as well as got $4 dollars 71c total for them That’s 67cents per twenty-four hours (wow!) as well as 14/100 of a cent per page read (forget virtually the GT3- I‘ll larn for the Veyron).
(update March 2012: forthwith averaging abt 1100 hits per twenty-four hours - earning a chip nether $1).
If you lot don’t similar this, it’s existent simple. Read the page but don’t click whatsoever advertisements.
Note that every dollar (less than i per day) goes to the SurfAid charity. This was laid past times a NZ big-wave surfing doc visiting the Mentawi as well as Nias islands off due west Sumatra (one of the poorest areas inwards Asia) who realised when he jumped off his live-on boat to see i of those idyllic villages behind the beach simply how far a few dollars on anti-malarials, water-purification etc would larn to assist the locals. SurfAid had a boat inwards the expanse as well as was so a kickoff responder when the 2004 seismic sea wave hitting as well as i time again when a less publicised 2010 i slammed the islands. I intend most of you lot have got a tame charity, but if non this is a expert i to support.
UPDATE JAN 2010 - the novel READERS' TRIP REPORTS department is promotion costless because I figure some potential contributors don't desire their materials associated amongst commercialism.
WHAT ARE THE MOST READ PAGES?
In the past times week:
Some Tips on Not Drowning 133
Tioman 121
Which Island or Beach 115
Phi Phi 104
Bali 77
Krabi 69
Stones From the Joker inwards the Glass House 68
This is June 09 - Thailand islands volition selection upward inwards high season. In high flavor Phi Phi as well as Which Beach or Island? charge per unit of measurement highest.
UPDATE JAN 2010 - Phi Phi is indeed #1 isle page. But "Stones From the Joker" is outrating them all since I added some featherbrained pictures.
WHICH IS MY FAVOURITE PAGE?
Some Tips on Not Drowning - if it helps salve simply i life or avoid a large scare, it has been worth while.
HOW COME THERE ARE two INDEXES?
When I kickoff started, Blogger was much less user friendly unless you lot had a working noesis of html. So when I decided to larn a page counter past times pasting some Google Advertising code, the ads came upward on the INDEX PAGE equally a long vertical column at the arrive at - when people clicked on to it all they saw was the ads - no Index contents.
I thought this was a turn-off - a lot of readers would non bother virtually scrolling downwardly past times the ads to observe the Index itself. So I did a mo index page amongst no ads. The solely agency to exercise this was to start a mo spider web log - at that topographic point are genuinely two blogs - THAILAND, BALI AND OTHER BEACHES and TEZZA’S BEACHES AND ISLANDS - the indexes are crosslinked as well as volition observe a page on either blog. You tin flaming regard the other index past times clicking BACK TO INDEX at the arrive at correct of this page - notice it has dissimilar pictures arrive at as well as side.
Blogger is much to a greater extent than user-friendly now. Arranging ads simply where I desire them is a doddle, so both blogs forthwith have got them - because I desire to spill out checking readership of both. And to brand $millions.
UPDATE JAN 2010 - at that topographic point are forthwith three dissever blogs. In guild to spill out the novel READERS' TRIP REPORTS promotion costless I had to start a novel blog. Well perchance non HAD TO - but I don' t know plenty virtually Blogger to brand private pages ad-free.
HOW COME OTHER PEOPLE HAVE COPIED MY STUFF?
Several people have got asked to display some of my pages, similar Brent’s BACKPACKING THAILAND
Marizamelia’s KenapaEndonesah Project
And some lady runs a go site for Turkey wanted my Paragliding as well as Cruising Threads. I have got lost the link.
TALES OF ASIA has also got a lot of my early on Thailand Island pages inwards a special section, but none of these has been updated equally on my site.
My stalker, the pitiful Singapore Slim (all names changed to protect the guilty) has also copied as well as pasted quite a lot of my pages to brand his ISLANDS AND BEACHES spider web log (over 90% is my stuff) https://bangkokthailandairportmap.blogspot.com//search?q=index claiming it was his ain writing, but when he got ridiculed past times other readers he changed some wording to essay to differentiate it as well as inwards some parts to go inwards satirical. The loser couldn’t exercise satire if his life depended on it.
WHY ARE THE INDEXES FUTURE-DATED?
Blogs automatically post the final input at the arrive at of the page. So to spill out the indexes at the arrive at of the page I have got to appointment them equally if posted some fourth dimension inwards the futurity - Dec09 at this fourth dimension of writing. Blogger allows this.
Similarly, I tin flaming seat a novel page anywhere past times juggling its posting-date. For illustration this page volition live on posted inwards June 09, but I don’t regard it equally a fundamental page so it volition live on given a appointment which places it somewhere downwardly the blog, non close the top. I simply decided July07 which should seat it 2d from bottom.
WHY ARE SOME PHOTOS TAKEN BY OTHER PEOPLE?
I used to live on a photographic idiot box camera fanatic - had a arrive at compass SLR amongst all the accessories. But I got sick of carting all this materials everywhere - so for a long fourth dimension I travelled amongst NO camera. I had lots of information but no shots, so I looked at Google Images as well as similar as well as used shots from there. I ever admit the source as well as give a link to the lensman when possible.
On to a greater extent than recent trips I’ve taken an elcheapo digital which is compact plenty to non live on a hassle, as well as inexpensive plenty to non worry virtually theft. Any unacknowledged pix have got been taken past times me.
But fifty-fifty after I started lugging a photographic idiot box camera i time again I regard fabulous shots from a website or traveler as well as simply have got to include them. Several examples are on my Ko Kut page - the fact that my camera's backup batteries were on their final legs at that topographic point is some other ingredient for borrowing pix on that detail page. Got worse a few days after on Whai were they failed completely as well as at that topographic point were none for sale.
ARE THERE ANY PIX OF ME?
Plenty, but all but two (on the Laoliang page) don’t position me. This site is non virtually me**, it’s virtually the locations. Ignore the plainly dummy shots I claim are me, similar the baby on the bowsprit of the WhitSunday Cruise yacht.
**although this page IS virtually me. Sorry, but people are ever bespeak virtually why I exercise the blog.
SOME PEOPLE SAY THE STUFF LOOKS LIKE Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 TAT WHITEWASH - THERE ARE NO CRITICISMS.
They don‘t read the pages, simply knock my efforts. Some criticisms I tin flaming intend of off the arrive at of my head:
THAILAND
PHI PHI IS OVERPRICED, AS IS RAILAY AND LIPE.
RAILAY AND MOST OF PHI PHI ARE OVERCROWDED IN SEASON.
MUCH OF PHRA NANG IS OVERCROWDED IN SEASON.
AO NANG IS Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 HOT DUSTY PLACE IN DAYTIME, FULL OF TOUTS AND HASSLE MERCHANTS. AND MUCH OF THE BEACH IS UNATTRACTIVE.
PATTAYA BEACH ON LIPE HAS JUMPED THE SHARK (since improved) AND THE FISHING VILLAGE IS Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 DISGRACE (since improved).
THE SEA GYPSY VILLAGE AT BAN CHAO MAI AT HAT YAO IS Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 BIGGER DISGRACE.
SO IS THE FIRST 500M PAST THE ENTRANCE TO THE NATIONAL PARK ON SAMET - DOES N.P. DO ANYTHING FOR OUR 200B?
THAI SNORKELLING LOCATIONS CAN’T COMPARE TO WORLD’S BEST (the best inwards Thailand is 3rd rate).
RAILAY BUNGALOW PEOPLE DON’T PULL THEIR WEIGHT ON GENERAL INFRASTRUCTURE.
EAST RAILAY IS Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 MESS AT HIGH TIDE.
BEACHES AT YAO NOI ARE MOSTLY 2ND RATE (by Thai standards).
BEACHES AT SUKORN ARE 3RD RATE.
BEACHES AT SIBOYA ARE 4TH RATE.
WATER CLARITY ON ISLANDS CLOSE TO THE COAST AND BIG RIVER MOUTHS OFTEN LEAVES YOU LESS THAN GRUNTLED.
THAI LONGTAIL BOATS ARE Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 JOKE - POOR IN ANY SORT OF SWELL OR CHOP AND NEEDLESSLY NOISY. AND BECAUSE THEY ARE SO EXPENSIVE TO BUILD/BUY, TRIPS ARE OVERPRICED (well, that's one reason).
THAI ATTITUDES TO RUBBISH ARE Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 JOKE.
SOME BUNGALOW OWNERS’ APPROACH TO ELECTICAL SAFETY IS NEGLIGENT.
SPEEDBOATS TO LIPE AND SURROUNDS ARE OVERCROWDED - YOU CAN GET VERY WET AND POSSIBLY INJURED IF THE SEA IS CHOPPY OR ROUGH.
THE SLOW BOAT TO PHAYAM IS AN UNCOMFORTABLE AND SLOW CRATE AND OVERPRICED (there is forthwith a mo faster boat, but the master copy yet runs).
THE AO NANG LONGTAIL MAFIA AND KRABI AIRPORT TAXI CARTEL ARE Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 PACK OF RIP-OFF MERCHANTS. SO TOO IS THE PHUKET BEACHES TUK-TUK ASSOCIATION.
THE SAMET AND large CHANG SONGTHAEW MAFIAS OVERCHARGE BETWEEN BEACHES.
THE NATIONAL PARK ENTRANCE FEE IS STILL Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 RIP-OFF AT 200B.
NATIONAL PARK EMPLOYEES SPEND MOST OF THEIR TIME SITTING ON THEIR BUMS DOING ZILCH.
SOME BUNGALOWS IN SOUTHERN SAMET HAVE BLOCKED THE COASTAL WALKING TRACK WITH FENCES.
THAI HIRE BICYCLES ARE NEARLY ALWAYS WRECKS WHICH REQUIRE MINI-REBUILDS AT START OF RENTAL.
THE DOG SITUATION IN THAILAND IS OUT OF CONTROL AND REQUIRES Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 BALI STYLE MASS EXTERMINATION (Muslim areas have got puddy-cats, no problems).
LONE WOMEN TRAVELLERS SHOULD MAYBE AVOID SINCHAI'S AT HAT YAO.
SOME PEOPLE RECKON NATURE RESORT ON LIBONG IS WAY OVERPRICED.
MANY PEOPLE ARE LESS THAN WHELMED ABOUT THE RUBBISH ON LIPE.
IF YOU GET UPSET ABOUT PILES OF BUILDING MATERIALS/ACTIVITIES AND BEACHES NOT YET CLEANED DON'T VISIT ISLANDS DURING LATE WET SEASON/EARLY DRY SEASON.
CORAL BLEACHING IN 2011 MAKE THE SURINS Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 MUST MISS.
SURINS BUNGALOWS ARE GROSSLY OVERPRICED
FOOD IN THE NP CANTEEENS AT THE SURINS IS OVERPRICED TASTELESS CRAP. YOU CAN'T BUY Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 BEER - ALL N.Ps STARTING 2011 ARE DRY
STRUTTING SELF-RIGHTEOUS ARROGANT FRENCH SELF PROCALIMED ISLAND GUARDIANS AT THE SURINS CAMPING AREAS WILL TRY TO PUSH THEIR SELF-MADE RULES DOWN YOUR THROAT.
THE "TRADITIONAL" MOKEN VILLAGE AT THE SURINS (PAY TO VISIT) FEATURES TRADITIONAL GIANT PLASMA SCREENS IN THE HOUSES.
MY MOKEN SNORKEL TRIP LONGTAIL GUY IN THE SURINS DIDN'T SEEM TO SPEAK ENGLISH OR KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THE "GOOD STUFF" WAS AT SNORKEL LOCATIONS. I DON'T THINK HE COULD SWIM - CERTAINLY HIS OFFSIDER THRASHED AROUND ON THE SURFACE IN AN INNER TUBE AND MASK.
PEOPLE HAVE COMPLAINED ABOUT THEFTS FROM UNDERBUS LUGGAGE COMPARTMENTS ON KSR TO CHUMPON/SURATHANI BUSES (exception seems to live on Lomprayah) AND ON KRABI TO SURATHANI BUSES RUN BY PP FAMILY COMPANY.
THE LATTER COMPANY SEEMS TO ATTRACT COMPLAINTS ABOUT WASTING LOTS OF TIME SITTING AROUND IN OUT OF TOWN DEPOTS, SWITCHING BUSES TO CRATES ETC
TRAVELLERS' MINIBUSES ARE OFTEN OVERCROWDED, UNCOMFORTABLE AND DRIVE TOO FAST - AND SOME DO SIMILAR TIME WASTING THINGS AS PP FAMILY CO
INDO:
THE BEACH AT BINGIN AINT GOOD.
THE BEACH AT CANDI DASA IS NON EXISTENT AND NEARBY WHITE SAND BEACH IS PRETTY ORDINARY.
DREAMLAND ON BALI HAS BEEN SPOILED BY DEVELOPMENT.
THE SURF AT DREAM BEACH ON LEMBONGAN IS DANGEROUS.
KUTA BALI IS CROWDED, TOUTS IN YOUR FACE, NOISY, TRAFFIC JAMMED AND THE BEACH IS NOT GREAT.
WATCH YOUR PROPERTY AT KUTA LOMBOK.
GILI TRAWANGAN IS CLOSE TO JUMPING THE SHARK.
LABUANBAJO IN FLORES IS NOISY, DUSTY, DIRTY, WITH RUBBISH EVERYWHERE, JAMMED WITH TRAFFIC AT TIMES.
THE LOMBOK - FLORES OVERLAND TRIP IS FULL OF DELAYS AND HASSLE.
AUSTRALIA
ACCOMMODATION AT BYRON BAY IS OVERPRICED.
STRUTTING SELF-RIGHTEOUS PC GAY PEAKOCK LITTLE HITLERS AT KING'S BEACH NEAR BYRON WILL TRY TO PUSH THEIR SELF-MADE RULES DOWN YOUR THROAT.
HOOK ISLAND BUDGET RESORT AINT EXACTLY BUDGET THESE DAYS.
IF YOU DON'T LIKE PRETENTIOUS TRENDSETTERS BUNGING ON SIDE, YOU WILL HATE BYRON BAY. IF YOU ENJOY THEIR ACT LIKE ME, YOU WILL HAVE ANOTHER REASON TO LOVE THE PLACE.
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY CRITICS OF THE SITE?
For a start nosotros have got the remnants of the CHAT GROUP MAFIA - a bunch of deadbeats thought they owned Thorntree Thailand branch some fourth dimension back. They engaged inwards huge amounts of puerile chat virtually non-travel things, abused posters virtually "boring" questions re go basics, attacked backpackers as well as other budget travellers mercilessly, harassed posters virtually typos as well as grammar, picked arguments amongst everyone they could - as well as if posters complained, gang attacked them amongst ferocity including stalking them all simply about Thorntree Thailand and onto other branches . Lots of posters amongst expert information were scared away - who needs aggro similar that?
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 bunch of regulars including me took them on inwards what was called THE GIMP WARS at the time. Eventually a novel moderator amongst some backbone, Wazza, banned most of their arses from Thorntree. Unfortunately Wazza was allow larn when LP got into a fiscal crisis at the fourth dimension of the SARS scare - as well as wimp Roman reinstated some of the fundamental players. Since that fourth dimension they have got gone dorsum to their harassing habits, including stalking me all simply about the Thorntree as well as onto other go forums similar Travelfish. They abhor my go site - equally I have got already said, i of these losers has fifty-fifty pasted as well as copied a lot of my pages onto his ain pathetic site amongst no acknowledgement.
Then nosotros have got people who don’t larn why I created the site. They intend I am an agent of TAT or that I exercise it for the money. They larn annoyed past times my constant: “There is a lot to a greater extent than information inwards the kickoff link below”. They don’t sympathise that I created this site to give people access to equally much go information equally I tin flaming - as well as the inwards a higher house phrase informs them where to observe it.
We mightiness fifty-fifty have got some jealous types. No demand to - I reckon at that topographic point are plenty of people who have got equally much or to a greater extent than noesis than me, but most don’t have got the fourth dimension to create their ain site.
WHY DO I HAVE SO MUCH TIME?
Simple - I grew upward poor but my parents made certain I got a expert education. I worked existent hard when out of school, frequently at concurrent jobs. I saved similar crazy instead of spending my dough on bling. I studied investment carefully as well as seat my savings to work. Today, Lady Tezza (who comes from a similar background) as well as I have got belongings as well as financial-assets worth many truck-loads of cash. We have got been able to surrender run at an historic menses most people are yet hard at it.
But i of our principles of investment is to target majuscule gain, non yield - so nosotros are assets rich as well as income modest. Which is why I am a budget traveler.
I’ll bore you lot amongst TEZZA’S INVESTMENT 101:
Yield won’t exercise it - equally above.
Neither volition having lots of your wealth inwards cash - peculiarly correct forthwith when those idiots at The Fed as well as Bank of England are printing coin to finance the authorities deficits. Inflation volition murder you.
If an investment sounds likewise expert to live on truthful it is.
If you lot don’t fully sympathise it don’t larn close it. How many of those overpaid Masters of the Universe buying CDOs as well as similar for their banks, investment funds etc understood them. None - resulting inwards the introduce World Financial Crisis.
Invest for the long term. Realise you lot volition larn backwards at times as well as don’t bound at shadows. Don’t essay to fourth dimension the marketplace - solely 2% larn it right, as well as 100% of them are lucky.
Dollar cost averaging is a no-brainer.
So is diversity.
If you lot are dealing amongst a broker, fiscal agent etc negotiate 50% off their committee or fee. If they won’t play, i of their competitors will. Study the concept of CHURN as well as don’t allow these shonky coupon-clippers exercise it to you.
Similarly, never pay total listing cost for whatsoever substantial retail purchase. Sales staff abhor hard bargainers but they regard punters who pay listing amongst contempt.
Make certain your partner is non a spender. If she/he is - have got a class inwards bankruptcy accounting so you lot tin flaming administer your ain insolvency. Lady Tezza came from an fifty-fifty poorer household unit of measurement than me, but had mass coin inwards the banking concern at xvi when I met her, on concern human relationship of purpose fourth dimension jobs. This i was a keeper. It don’t wound that she is gorgeous. She is amend educated, agency smarter than me as well as has a consummate disdain for whatsoever wasteful spending.
WHAT’S WITH THE COMEDY STUFF?
When most of the Chat Group Mafia got banned, the remnants posted inwards as well as said it wasn’t fair, these guys were SO FUNNY. Sure they were, if you lot intend repetitive schoolboy obsession amongst lady-boys, Thai prostitutes as well as what they called fudge-packers is funny. Not to yell master copy lines similar TOOT TOOT as well as EAT MY SHORTS. Oh yeah, as well as i dude would re-create as well as glue the JOKE OF THE DAY from some spider web gag-site, to cries of BRILLIANT! Such talent.
Anyway these sycophants said the Forum was forthwith wearisome - so I thought, what the hell, I’ll essay some comedy writing - I reckon you lot tin flaming exercise simply virtually anything if you lot run at it. So I wrote LATEST NEWS FROM THE LAND OF SMILES, which seemed to larn downwardly okay, seeing it’s been on the permanent pasty at the terminate of the Thailand forum for virtually vi years.
And every forthwith as well as and then I churn out something else as well as burn downwardly it in. Best received is STONES FROM THE JOKER IN THE GLASS HOUSE which satirises the behavior of some of the CHAT GROUP MAFIA as well as other pains that at times pop upward on the forum. On my site, THE JOKER frequently gets 30+ hits per twenty-four hours for a calendar week or so - it’s almost equally if some English linguistic communication Lit instructor has said - “Okay class, this is how you lot DON’T write satire”.
WHAT ARE MY FAVOURITE BEACH AND ISLAND?
I don’t have got a favourite island, but if I could live on on whatsoever isle correct forthwith it would live on Naxos inwards the Greek Islands. It is non on this site on concern human relationship I haven’t visited for v years. Update - is now.
Australia’s Whitsunday Islands which kill anywhere inwards Thailand.
My favourite beach is White Beach inwards Broken Head Nature Reserve inwards northern NSW. You tin flaming regard a pix virtually 55% downwardly the Byron Bay page.
That aint the best beach I’ve seen - that’s Whitehaven Beach inwards the Whitsunday Islands (2 pix 70% downwardly page).
In Thailand the best beach I’ve seen is in all likelihood the blinding white sand project at Donald Duck Bay inwards the Similans - abt 65% downwardly this page.
Although expert former Phra Nang is pretty spectacular if you lot tin flaming larn it below total tide as well as uncrowded. Good luck amongst the latter.
But if you lot inquire me when I'm away from the province to selection i LOS house I'd similar to live on correct now, I ever flick Viewpoint's southern beach on Lipe. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 stone at the side of the beach meets the sand at a perfect backrest angle, a existent overnice spot to sit down amongst a mutual depression temperature Chang from Viewpoint's rustic eating theatre as well as banking concern jibe the scene. Beach is pop amongst people from simply about the isle but never super-crowded.
IS MY STUFF LEADING TO THE OVERCROWDING OF POPULAR DESTINATIONS?
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of us tend to fry ourselves virtually our impact. Every mo traveller you lot regard has a LP or competitors’ guide book, but few people I speak to have got fifty-fifty heard of Thorn Tree or Travelfish, allow lonely used them.
If that is so, how many people have got seen my inconsequential site? Maybe the next volition give some thought of my influence:
Last calendar month I went to a arrive at value guesthouse on Gili Trawangan I have got used earlier as well as praised on my page. It had SHUT DOWN.
SO TOO had the eating theatre amongst the best views inwards Pandangbai on Bali.
One of the best value as well as most scenic bungalows on Lipe is Viewpoint on i of the nicest sections of beach. I have got a review as well as multiple pix on my page. When I returned inwards early on December of final twelvemonth it had NO CUSTOMERS.
So much for my influence on overcrowding.
UPDATE NOV 09 - I simply got information from Khao Lak local Similan Diver that Nature Resort, some other house I've stayed at as well as praised, has been close downwardly for some time. Jeez, the osculate of death!
HOW UP TO DATE IS MY STUFF?
I essay to larn dorsum to all places at to the lowest degree i time every three years. That makes my materials on average equally upward to appointment equally most guidebooks as well as it gets published to a greater extent than quickly.
For pop locations I essay to revisit to a greater extent than frequently - fifty-fifty i time or twice per year.
This is kinda frustrating inwards that I pass likewise much fourth dimension revisiting places rather than going to novel locations I desire to see. The fact that household unit of measurement commitments (driving, shopping etc for an elderly infirm relative) necktie me to Commonwealth of Australia for longer than I would similar also limits things.
The page most needing updating is Kuta Lombok inwards Indonesia. I haven’t been at that topographic point for 4 years as well as ran out of fourth dimension for a revisit final calendar month (May09)
Ko Tao as well as petty Ko Chang Andaman side have got non been visited for three years - I aim to larn dorsum to them as well as exercise some kickoff timers similar Ko Racha, Ko Bu Bu as well as the Surins early on side past times side year. I’m going to update Phangan as well as Phuket plus exercise a page on Samui (I haven’t been at that topographic point for a long time) inwards August as well as update Lipe as well as Bulon Lae inwards piece of cake Nov-Dec. I’ll also revisit Langkawi inwards Malaysia on that trip as well as exercise a page.
I also desire to larn dorsum to Sumatra, eastern Indo, the Philippines, Pacific Islands as well as Europe. And Commonwealth of Australia out-beaches as well as out-islands them all.
So many places, so petty time!
UPDATE JAN 2010 - inwards guild to larn existent up-to-date materials I've started the novel READERS' TRIP REPORTS section. If you lot desire to contribute some stuff, ship whatsoever text as well as a few pix if you lot have got them to lajolla22@hotmail.com - the pix + few lines of caption is a time-effective agency of doing the report. Sumber http://tezza-thailandbeachesandislands.blogspot.com/
On go forums I essay to respond equally many questions equally possible, peculiarly the repetitive “boring” ones which tire many regulars. And when I respond I essay to give equally much information equally I can. But I establish I was spending huge amounts of fourth dimension rewriting the same answers twenty-four hours after day. What I needed was a site where I could seat heaps of information - allowing me to give shorter forum answers amongst reference to the site for additional stuff.
Thorntree was no expert at the fourth dimension because threads dropped off the forum after virtually three months. The novel version since the Brit takeover is much amend inwards this respect, but likewise piece of cake for me - as well as displaying photos is difficult.
After a few other failed experiments I figured I could have got a spider web log format as well as utilization it equally a host for my go data as well as advice..
WHAT’S IN information technology FOR ME?
Why exercise whatsoever of you lot respond questions on go sites? Because you lot desire to assist other travellers as well as percentage what you lot know.
Vanity as well as pride come upward into it. I can’t believe how expert Blogger makes my materials hold off as well as I exercise similar the many cheers I get. I larn a existent boot when I regard how many people have got clicked on my pages.
I am non paid by TAT, I don’t larn freebies from bungalow owners - no-one knows who the hell I am. I am non a professional person journalist hoping a publisher volition selection upward my materials - AS IF. See below for the farcical amount of coin earned from Google advertisements as well as where it goes.
MY STUFF ISN’T REALLY Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 TRAVEL BLOG - I DON’T TELL YOU WHAT I DID.
Nope, that aint the idea. I figure potential travelers are non interested inwards reading a wearisome concern human relationship of my twenty-four hours to twenty-four hours experiences. They desire information virtually what is there, non what I did. So I exit that purpose fairly limited. UPDATE 2017 - this has changed: I've establish it much easier writing recent post such equally SICHON to process it equally a WHAT I DID thing. This is largely because I'm getting agency likewise former to ride the wheel some other 10km provide to regard i to a greater extent than waterfall (which is in all likelihood no amend than the dozens I've seen inwards SE Asia) or riding the motorbike 40km provide to banking concern jibe that northern most beach (if I tin flaming observe a house which rents motorcycles).
WHAT ABOUT THE ADVERTISING?
three reasons why I have got the adverts:
- As a give cheers you lot to Google for hosting the site. They exercise it for free, other than the coin they brand when people click their ads. I don't believe inwards a costless dejeuner - if Google doesn’t brand money, it won’t offering the service.
- Google Adsense gives me a rattling expert page counter agency superior to tertiary parties if I display their ads. This is the agency I regard how many people are reading my stuff. Like whatsoever author, I’m existent curious virtually this.
- To brand heaps of coin so I tin flaming upgrade the '57 Eldo to a 911 GT3. Kidding - Adsense Reports say me that over the past times calendar week I have got had 3321 pages read, nineteen ads clicked as well as got $4 dollars 71c total for them That’s 67cents per twenty-four hours (wow!) as well as 14/100 of a cent per page read (forget virtually the GT3- I‘ll larn for the Veyron).
(update March 2012: forthwith averaging abt 1100 hits per twenty-four hours - earning a chip nether $1).
If you lot don’t similar this, it’s existent simple. Read the page but don’t click whatsoever advertisements.
Note that every dollar (less than i per day) goes to the SurfAid charity. This was laid past times a NZ big-wave surfing doc visiting the Mentawi as well as Nias islands off due west Sumatra (one of the poorest areas inwards Asia) who realised when he jumped off his live-on boat to see i of those idyllic villages behind the beach simply how far a few dollars on anti-malarials, water-purification etc would larn to assist the locals. SurfAid had a boat inwards the expanse as well as was so a kickoff responder when the 2004 seismic sea wave hitting as well as i time again when a less publicised 2010 i slammed the islands. I intend most of you lot have got a tame charity, but if non this is a expert i to support.
UPDATE JAN 2010 - the novel READERS' TRIP REPORTS department is promotion costless because I figure some potential contributors don't desire their materials associated amongst commercialism.
WHAT ARE THE MOST READ PAGES?
In the past times week:
Some Tips on Not Drowning 133
Tioman 121
Which Island or Beach 115
Phi Phi 104
Bali 77
Krabi 69
Stones From the Joker inwards the Glass House 68
This is June 09 - Thailand islands volition selection upward inwards high season. In high flavor Phi Phi as well as Which Beach or Island? charge per unit of measurement highest.
UPDATE JAN 2010 - Phi Phi is indeed #1 isle page. But "Stones From the Joker" is outrating them all since I added some featherbrained pictures.
WHICH IS MY FAVOURITE PAGE?
Some Tips on Not Drowning - if it helps salve simply i life or avoid a large scare, it has been worth while.
HOW COME THERE ARE two INDEXES?
When I kickoff started, Blogger was much less user friendly unless you lot had a working noesis of html. So when I decided to larn a page counter past times pasting some Google Advertising code, the ads came upward on the INDEX PAGE equally a long vertical column at the arrive at - when people clicked on to it all they saw was the ads - no Index contents.
I thought this was a turn-off - a lot of readers would non bother virtually scrolling downwardly past times the ads to observe the Index itself. So I did a mo index page amongst no ads. The solely agency to exercise this was to start a mo spider web log - at that topographic point are genuinely two blogs - THAILAND, BALI AND OTHER BEACHES and TEZZA’S BEACHES AND ISLANDS - the indexes are crosslinked as well as volition observe a page on either blog. You tin flaming regard the other index past times clicking BACK TO INDEX at the arrive at correct of this page - notice it has dissimilar pictures arrive at as well as side.
Blogger is much to a greater extent than user-friendly now. Arranging ads simply where I desire them is a doddle, so both blogs forthwith have got them - because I desire to spill out checking readership of both. And to brand $millions.
UPDATE JAN 2010 - at that topographic point are forthwith three dissever blogs. In guild to spill out the novel READERS' TRIP REPORTS promotion costless I had to start a novel blog. Well perchance non HAD TO - but I don' t know plenty virtually Blogger to brand private pages ad-free.
HOW COME OTHER PEOPLE HAVE COPIED MY STUFF?
Several people have got asked to display some of my pages, similar Brent’s BACKPACKING THAILAND
Marizamelia’s KenapaEndonesah Project
And some lady runs a go site for Turkey wanted my Paragliding as well as Cruising Threads. I have got lost the link.
TALES OF ASIA has also got a lot of my early on Thailand Island pages inwards a special section, but none of these has been updated equally on my site.
My stalker, the pitiful Singapore Slim (all names changed to protect the guilty) has also copied as well as pasted quite a lot of my pages to brand his ISLANDS AND BEACHES spider web log (over 90% is my stuff) https://bangkokthailandairportmap.blogspot.com//search?q=index claiming it was his ain writing, but when he got ridiculed past times other readers he changed some wording to essay to differentiate it as well as inwards some parts to go inwards satirical. The loser couldn’t exercise satire if his life depended on it.
WHY ARE THE INDEXES FUTURE-DATED?
Blogs automatically post the final input at the arrive at of the page. So to spill out the indexes at the arrive at of the page I have got to appointment them equally if posted some fourth dimension inwards the futurity - Dec09 at this fourth dimension of writing. Blogger allows this.
Similarly, I tin flaming seat a novel page anywhere past times juggling its posting-date. For illustration this page volition live on posted inwards June 09, but I don’t regard it equally a fundamental page so it volition live on given a appointment which places it somewhere downwardly the blog, non close the top. I simply decided July07 which should seat it 2d from bottom.
WHY ARE SOME PHOTOS TAKEN BY OTHER PEOPLE?
I used to live on a photographic idiot box camera fanatic - had a arrive at compass SLR amongst all the accessories. But I got sick of carting all this materials everywhere - so for a long fourth dimension I travelled amongst NO camera. I had lots of information but no shots, so I looked at Google Images as well as similar as well as used shots from there. I ever admit the source as well as give a link to the lensman when possible.
On to a greater extent than recent trips I’ve taken an elcheapo digital which is compact plenty to non live on a hassle, as well as inexpensive plenty to non worry virtually theft. Any unacknowledged pix have got been taken past times me.
But fifty-fifty after I started lugging a photographic idiot box camera i time again I regard fabulous shots from a website or traveler as well as simply have got to include them. Several examples are on my Ko Kut page - the fact that my camera's backup batteries were on their final legs at that topographic point is some other ingredient for borrowing pix on that detail page. Got worse a few days after on Whai were they failed completely as well as at that topographic point were none for sale.
ARE THERE ANY PIX OF ME?
Plenty, but all but two (on the Laoliang page) don’t position me. This site is non virtually me**, it’s virtually the locations. Ignore the plainly dummy shots I claim are me, similar the baby on the bowsprit of the WhitSunday Cruise yacht.
**although this page IS virtually me. Sorry, but people are ever bespeak virtually why I exercise the blog.
SOME PEOPLE SAY THE STUFF LOOKS LIKE Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 TAT WHITEWASH - THERE ARE NO CRITICISMS.
They don‘t read the pages, simply knock my efforts. Some criticisms I tin flaming intend of off the arrive at of my head:
THAILAND
PHI PHI IS OVERPRICED, AS IS RAILAY AND LIPE.
RAILAY AND MOST OF PHI PHI ARE OVERCROWDED IN SEASON.
MUCH OF PHRA NANG IS OVERCROWDED IN SEASON.
AO NANG IS Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 HOT DUSTY PLACE IN DAYTIME, FULL OF TOUTS AND HASSLE MERCHANTS. AND MUCH OF THE BEACH IS UNATTRACTIVE.
PATTAYA BEACH ON LIPE HAS JUMPED THE SHARK (since improved) AND THE FISHING VILLAGE IS Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 DISGRACE (since improved).
THE SEA GYPSY VILLAGE AT BAN CHAO MAI AT HAT YAO IS Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 BIGGER DISGRACE.
SO IS THE FIRST 500M PAST THE ENTRANCE TO THE NATIONAL PARK ON SAMET - DOES N.P. DO ANYTHING FOR OUR 200B?
THAI SNORKELLING LOCATIONS CAN’T COMPARE TO WORLD’S BEST (the best inwards Thailand is 3rd rate).
RAILAY BUNGALOW PEOPLE DON’T PULL THEIR WEIGHT ON GENERAL INFRASTRUCTURE.
EAST RAILAY IS Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 MESS AT HIGH TIDE.
BEACHES AT YAO NOI ARE MOSTLY 2ND RATE (by Thai standards).
BEACHES AT SUKORN ARE 3RD RATE.
BEACHES AT SIBOYA ARE 4TH RATE.
WATER CLARITY ON ISLANDS CLOSE TO THE COAST AND BIG RIVER MOUTHS OFTEN LEAVES YOU LESS THAN GRUNTLED.
THAI LONGTAIL BOATS ARE Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 JOKE - POOR IN ANY SORT OF SWELL OR CHOP AND NEEDLESSLY NOISY. AND BECAUSE THEY ARE SO EXPENSIVE TO BUILD/BUY, TRIPS ARE OVERPRICED (well, that's one reason).
THAI ATTITUDES TO RUBBISH ARE Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 JOKE.
SOME BUNGALOW OWNERS’ APPROACH TO ELECTICAL SAFETY IS NEGLIGENT.
SPEEDBOATS TO LIPE AND SURROUNDS ARE OVERCROWDED - YOU CAN GET VERY WET AND POSSIBLY INJURED IF THE SEA IS CHOPPY OR ROUGH.
THE SLOW BOAT TO PHAYAM IS AN UNCOMFORTABLE AND SLOW CRATE AND OVERPRICED (there is forthwith a mo faster boat, but the master copy yet runs).
THE AO NANG LONGTAIL MAFIA AND KRABI AIRPORT TAXI CARTEL ARE Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 PACK OF RIP-OFF MERCHANTS. SO TOO IS THE PHUKET BEACHES TUK-TUK ASSOCIATION.
THE SAMET AND large CHANG SONGTHAEW MAFIAS OVERCHARGE BETWEEN BEACHES.
THE NATIONAL PARK ENTRANCE FEE IS STILL Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 RIP-OFF AT 200B.
NATIONAL PARK EMPLOYEES SPEND MOST OF THEIR TIME SITTING ON THEIR BUMS DOING ZILCH.
SOME BUNGALOWS IN SOUTHERN SAMET HAVE BLOCKED THE COASTAL WALKING TRACK WITH FENCES.
THAI HIRE BICYCLES ARE NEARLY ALWAYS WRECKS WHICH REQUIRE MINI-REBUILDS AT START OF RENTAL.
THE DOG SITUATION IN THAILAND IS OUT OF CONTROL AND REQUIRES Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 BALI STYLE MASS EXTERMINATION (Muslim areas have got puddy-cats, no problems).
LONE WOMEN TRAVELLERS SHOULD MAYBE AVOID SINCHAI'S AT HAT YAO.
SOME PEOPLE RECKON NATURE RESORT ON LIBONG IS WAY OVERPRICED.
MANY PEOPLE ARE LESS THAN WHELMED ABOUT THE RUBBISH ON LIPE.
IF YOU GET UPSET ABOUT PILES OF BUILDING MATERIALS/ACTIVITIES AND BEACHES NOT YET CLEANED DON'T VISIT ISLANDS DURING LATE WET SEASON/EARLY DRY SEASON.
CORAL BLEACHING IN 2011 MAKE THE SURINS Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 MUST MISS.
SURINS BUNGALOWS ARE GROSSLY OVERPRICED
FOOD IN THE NP CANTEEENS AT THE SURINS IS OVERPRICED TASTELESS CRAP. YOU CAN'T BUY Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 BEER - ALL N.Ps STARTING 2011 ARE DRY
STRUTTING SELF-RIGHTEOUS ARROGANT FRENCH SELF PROCALIMED ISLAND GUARDIANS AT THE SURINS CAMPING AREAS WILL TRY TO PUSH THEIR SELF-MADE RULES DOWN YOUR THROAT.
THE "TRADITIONAL" MOKEN VILLAGE AT THE SURINS (PAY TO VISIT) FEATURES TRADITIONAL GIANT PLASMA SCREENS IN THE HOUSES.
MY MOKEN SNORKEL TRIP LONGTAIL GUY IN THE SURINS DIDN'T SEEM TO SPEAK ENGLISH OR KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THE "GOOD STUFF" WAS AT SNORKEL LOCATIONS. I DON'T THINK HE COULD SWIM - CERTAINLY HIS OFFSIDER THRASHED AROUND ON THE SURFACE IN AN INNER TUBE AND MASK.
PEOPLE HAVE COMPLAINED ABOUT THEFTS FROM UNDERBUS LUGGAGE COMPARTMENTS ON KSR TO CHUMPON/SURATHANI BUSES (exception seems to live on Lomprayah) AND ON KRABI TO SURATHANI BUSES RUN BY PP FAMILY COMPANY.
THE LATTER COMPANY SEEMS TO ATTRACT COMPLAINTS ABOUT WASTING LOTS OF TIME SITTING AROUND IN OUT OF TOWN DEPOTS, SWITCHING BUSES TO CRATES ETC
TRAVELLERS' MINIBUSES ARE OFTEN OVERCROWDED, UNCOMFORTABLE AND DRIVE TOO FAST - AND SOME DO SIMILAR TIME WASTING THINGS AS PP FAMILY CO
INDO:
THE BEACH AT BINGIN AINT GOOD.
THE BEACH AT CANDI DASA IS NON EXISTENT AND NEARBY WHITE SAND BEACH IS PRETTY ORDINARY.
DREAMLAND ON BALI HAS BEEN SPOILED BY DEVELOPMENT.
THE SURF AT DREAM BEACH ON LEMBONGAN IS DANGEROUS.
KUTA BALI IS CROWDED, TOUTS IN YOUR FACE, NOISY, TRAFFIC JAMMED AND THE BEACH IS NOT GREAT.
WATCH YOUR PROPERTY AT KUTA LOMBOK.
GILI TRAWANGAN IS CLOSE TO JUMPING THE SHARK.
LABUANBAJO IN FLORES IS NOISY, DUSTY, DIRTY, WITH RUBBISH EVERYWHERE, JAMMED WITH TRAFFIC AT TIMES.
THE LOMBOK - FLORES OVERLAND TRIP IS FULL OF DELAYS AND HASSLE.
AUSTRALIA
ACCOMMODATION AT BYRON BAY IS OVERPRICED.
STRUTTING SELF-RIGHTEOUS PC GAY PEAKOCK LITTLE HITLERS AT KING'S BEACH NEAR BYRON WILL TRY TO PUSH THEIR SELF-MADE RULES DOWN YOUR THROAT.
HOOK ISLAND BUDGET RESORT AINT EXACTLY BUDGET THESE DAYS.
IF YOU DON'T LIKE PRETENTIOUS TRENDSETTERS BUNGING ON SIDE, YOU WILL HATE BYRON BAY. IF YOU ENJOY THEIR ACT LIKE ME, YOU WILL HAVE ANOTHER REASON TO LOVE THE PLACE.
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY CRITICS OF THE SITE?
For a start nosotros have got the remnants of the CHAT GROUP MAFIA - a bunch of deadbeats thought they owned Thorntree Thailand branch some fourth dimension back. They engaged inwards huge amounts of puerile chat virtually non-travel things, abused posters virtually "boring" questions re go basics, attacked backpackers as well as other budget travellers mercilessly, harassed posters virtually typos as well as grammar, picked arguments amongst everyone they could - as well as if posters complained, gang attacked them amongst ferocity including stalking them all simply about Thorntree Thailand and onto other branches . Lots of posters amongst expert information were scared away - who needs aggro similar that?
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 bunch of regulars including me took them on inwards what was called THE GIMP WARS at the time. Eventually a novel moderator amongst some backbone, Wazza, banned most of their arses from Thorntree. Unfortunately Wazza was allow larn when LP got into a fiscal crisis at the fourth dimension of the SARS scare - as well as wimp Roman reinstated some of the fundamental players. Since that fourth dimension they have got gone dorsum to their harassing habits, including stalking me all simply about the Thorntree as well as onto other go forums similar Travelfish. They abhor my go site - equally I have got already said, i of these losers has fifty-fifty pasted as well as copied a lot of my pages onto his ain pathetic site amongst no acknowledgement.
Then nosotros have got people who don’t larn why I created the site. They intend I am an agent of TAT or that I exercise it for the money. They larn annoyed past times my constant: “There is a lot to a greater extent than information inwards the kickoff link below”. They don’t sympathise that I created this site to give people access to equally much go information equally I tin flaming - as well as the inwards a higher house phrase informs them where to observe it.
We mightiness fifty-fifty have got some jealous types. No demand to - I reckon at that topographic point are plenty of people who have got equally much or to a greater extent than noesis than me, but most don’t have got the fourth dimension to create their ain site.
WHY DO I HAVE SO MUCH TIME?
Simple - I grew upward poor but my parents made certain I got a expert education. I worked existent hard when out of school, frequently at concurrent jobs. I saved similar crazy instead of spending my dough on bling. I studied investment carefully as well as seat my savings to work. Today, Lady Tezza (who comes from a similar background) as well as I have got belongings as well as financial-assets worth many truck-loads of cash. We have got been able to surrender run at an historic menses most people are yet hard at it.
But i of our principles of investment is to target majuscule gain, non yield - so nosotros are assets rich as well as income modest. Which is why I am a budget traveler.
I’ll bore you lot amongst TEZZA’S INVESTMENT 101:
Yield won’t exercise it - equally above.
Neither volition having lots of your wealth inwards cash - peculiarly correct forthwith when those idiots at The Fed as well as Bank of England are printing coin to finance the authorities deficits. Inflation volition murder you.
If an investment sounds likewise expert to live on truthful it is.
If you lot don’t fully sympathise it don’t larn close it. How many of those overpaid Masters of the Universe buying CDOs as well as similar for their banks, investment funds etc understood them. None - resulting inwards the introduce World Financial Crisis.
Invest for the long term. Realise you lot volition larn backwards at times as well as don’t bound at shadows. Don’t essay to fourth dimension the marketplace - solely 2% larn it right, as well as 100% of them are lucky.
Dollar cost averaging is a no-brainer.
So is diversity.
If you lot are dealing amongst a broker, fiscal agent etc negotiate 50% off their committee or fee. If they won’t play, i of their competitors will. Study the concept of CHURN as well as don’t allow these shonky coupon-clippers exercise it to you.
Similarly, never pay total listing cost for whatsoever substantial retail purchase. Sales staff abhor hard bargainers but they regard punters who pay listing amongst contempt.
Make certain your partner is non a spender. If she/he is - have got a class inwards bankruptcy accounting so you lot tin flaming administer your ain insolvency. Lady Tezza came from an fifty-fifty poorer household unit of measurement than me, but had mass coin inwards the banking concern at xvi when I met her, on concern human relationship of purpose fourth dimension jobs. This i was a keeper. It don’t wound that she is gorgeous. She is amend educated, agency smarter than me as well as has a consummate disdain for whatsoever wasteful spending.
WHAT’S WITH THE COMEDY STUFF?
When most of the Chat Group Mafia got banned, the remnants posted inwards as well as said it wasn’t fair, these guys were SO FUNNY. Sure they were, if you lot intend repetitive schoolboy obsession amongst lady-boys, Thai prostitutes as well as what they called fudge-packers is funny. Not to yell master copy lines similar TOOT TOOT as well as EAT MY SHORTS. Oh yeah, as well as i dude would re-create as well as glue the JOKE OF THE DAY from some spider web gag-site, to cries of BRILLIANT! Such talent.
Anyway these sycophants said the Forum was forthwith wearisome - so I thought, what the hell, I’ll essay some comedy writing - I reckon you lot tin flaming exercise simply virtually anything if you lot run at it. So I wrote LATEST NEWS FROM THE LAND OF SMILES, which seemed to larn downwardly okay, seeing it’s been on the permanent pasty at the terminate of the Thailand forum for virtually vi years.
And every forthwith as well as and then I churn out something else as well as burn downwardly it in. Best received is STONES FROM THE JOKER IN THE GLASS HOUSE which satirises the behavior of some of the CHAT GROUP MAFIA as well as other pains that at times pop upward on the forum. On my site, THE JOKER frequently gets 30+ hits per twenty-four hours for a calendar week or so - it’s almost equally if some English linguistic communication Lit instructor has said - “Okay class, this is how you lot DON’T write satire”.
WHAT ARE MY FAVOURITE BEACH AND ISLAND?
I don’t have got a favourite island, but if I could live on on whatsoever isle correct forthwith it would live on Naxos inwards the Greek Islands. It is non on this site on concern human relationship I haven’t visited for v years. Update - is now.
Australia’s Whitsunday Islands which kill anywhere inwards Thailand.
My favourite beach is White Beach inwards Broken Head Nature Reserve inwards northern NSW. You tin flaming regard a pix virtually 55% downwardly the Byron Bay page.
That aint the best beach I’ve seen - that’s Whitehaven Beach inwards the Whitsunday Islands (2 pix 70% downwardly page).
In Thailand the best beach I’ve seen is in all likelihood the blinding white sand project at Donald Duck Bay inwards the Similans - abt 65% downwardly this page.
Although expert former Phra Nang is pretty spectacular if you lot tin flaming larn it below total tide as well as uncrowded. Good luck amongst the latter.
But if you lot inquire me when I'm away from the province to selection i LOS house I'd similar to live on correct now, I ever flick Viewpoint's southern beach on Lipe. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 stone at the side of the beach meets the sand at a perfect backrest angle, a existent overnice spot to sit down amongst a mutual depression temperature Chang from Viewpoint's rustic eating theatre as well as banking concern jibe the scene. Beach is pop amongst people from simply about the isle but never super-crowded.
IS MY STUFF LEADING TO THE OVERCROWDING OF POPULAR DESTINATIONS?
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of us tend to fry ourselves virtually our impact. Every mo traveller you lot regard has a LP or competitors’ guide book, but few people I speak to have got fifty-fifty heard of Thorn Tree or Travelfish, allow lonely used them.
If that is so, how many people have got seen my inconsequential site? Maybe the next volition give some thought of my influence:
Last calendar month I went to a arrive at value guesthouse on Gili Trawangan I have got used earlier as well as praised on my page. It had SHUT DOWN.
SO TOO had the eating theatre amongst the best views inwards Pandangbai on Bali.
One of the best value as well as most scenic bungalows on Lipe is Viewpoint on i of the nicest sections of beach. I have got a review as well as multiple pix on my page. When I returned inwards early on December of final twelvemonth it had NO CUSTOMERS.
So much for my influence on overcrowding.
UPDATE NOV 09 - I simply got information from Khao Lak local Similan Diver that Nature Resort, some other house I've stayed at as well as praised, has been close downwardly for some time. Jeez, the osculate of death!
HOW UP TO DATE IS MY STUFF?
I essay to larn dorsum to all places at to the lowest degree i time every three years. That makes my materials on average equally upward to appointment equally most guidebooks as well as it gets published to a greater extent than quickly.
For pop locations I essay to revisit to a greater extent than frequently - fifty-fifty i time or twice per year.
This is kinda frustrating inwards that I pass likewise much fourth dimension revisiting places rather than going to novel locations I desire to see. The fact that household unit of measurement commitments (driving, shopping etc for an elderly infirm relative) necktie me to Commonwealth of Australia for longer than I would similar also limits things.
The page most needing updating is Kuta Lombok inwards Indonesia. I haven’t been at that topographic point for 4 years as well as ran out of fourth dimension for a revisit final calendar month (May09)
Ko Tao as well as petty Ko Chang Andaman side have got non been visited for three years - I aim to larn dorsum to them as well as exercise some kickoff timers similar Ko Racha, Ko Bu Bu as well as the Surins early on side past times side year. I’m going to update Phangan as well as Phuket plus exercise a page on Samui (I haven’t been at that topographic point for a long time) inwards August as well as update Lipe as well as Bulon Lae inwards piece of cake Nov-Dec. I’ll also revisit Langkawi inwards Malaysia on that trip as well as exercise a page.
I also desire to larn dorsum to Sumatra, eastern Indo, the Philippines, Pacific Islands as well as Europe. And Commonwealth of Australia out-beaches as well as out-islands them all.
So many places, so petty time!
UPDATE JAN 2010 - inwards guild to larn existent up-to-date materials I've started the novel READERS' TRIP REPORTS section. If you lot desire to contribute some stuff, ship whatsoever text as well as a few pix if you lot have got them to lajolla22@hotmail.com - the pix + few lines of caption is a time-effective agency of doing the report. Sumber http://tezza-thailandbeachesandislands.blogspot.com/