Thailand S/E Asia: Travelling tips

Beans_On

Planning on travelling to Asia for a coplue of months and am really just looking for advice on what exactly i need to organise.
Can anyone give a rough checklist of what it involves.
E.g
Visas (for travelling to Cambodia, vietnam), Injections, Currency.

Any helpfull web sites out there?

ArphaRima

Buy lonely planet guides. Or rent them from library and buy knock-offs over here. 25 euro vs 3 dollars.
Injections only if leaving the cities. Currency is US dollars, until you get here and its easy to change it. That goes for Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam at least.
Visas wou'll need to organise in advance. The Vietnamese embassy is in London. And it takes at least 2 weeks. Thailand -no need if you're Irish. Cambodia -on arrival.
Main things are good luggage and good travel/health insurance. A rough travel plan. Any more is against the SE Asia backpacker principles.

shelbourne

you can also get your vietnamese visa in thailand think it takes 4 days.bring traveler cheques and make sure to note down all the number.the asian people are great have great fun

Beans_On

cheers folks.
Can anyone recomend the best airlines?Looks like ebooker is coming in cheapest (840e)

smashey

Try SAS, Air France or KLM. They were always quite reasonable when I was travelling to Asia.

Regarding injections, I think you should go to your GP, as I think you need a typhoid injection at the very least.

jabberwock

myself and the gf went to thailand last year for 3 week in october.
got our tickets through USIT. Lufthansa for €710 each i think.

gary the great

I just got our flights for 630euro from London with Ebookers, then an extra 60 for return with Ryanair from London. Dats the way to do it on the cheap

Then get typhoid,polio,tetnus, Hep A,m Dipteria injections for 130euro with Doc Ekky in drumcondra. Its an extra 75 for Hep B if you plan on using the local prossie service just in case...im gettin my injections on Friday.

20 Times 20 Times

Just get the flights to bangkok and then you can explore thailand the cheap way , over here you can book flights boats accomadation on the net or walk into basically any shop and book them there.

Dave!

gary the great wrote:

Then get typhoid,polio,tetnus, Hep A,m Dipteria injections for 130euro with Doc Ekky in drumcondra. Its an extra 75 for Hep B if you plan on using the local prossie service just in case...im gettin my injections on Friday.

Hey sorry to bump this, but I'm in the process of researching/planning my trip to Thailand this summer (June 1st - Sept 1st, woohoo ), and I just wanted to double check that that's all the injections you need to get done, and that's the price. Around €200, yeh? I coulda sworn I saw a figure closer to €500 on here before, hmmm. Do I not need a malaria shot? Or do I have to take them in tablet form? I'm planning on going all over the country including the jungles, etc., so I presume I'll need all the shots I can get

Thanks for the help!

Attn: anyone,

I'm getting a figure of about €774 on Kayak.com, from Gulf Air -- I gather that's a decent enough figure for return, yeh? Seems to be the cheapest I can find.

Also, how much would travel/health insurance cost for the 3 months, do ye think? I just need a rough figure to include it in my estimates! Thanks

Eurorunner

DaveMcG wrote:

I'm getting a figure of about €774 on Kayak.com, from Gulf Air -- I gather that's a decent enough figure for return, yeh? Seems to be the cheapest I can find.

Got a fare of 630 eur back in March from A1 fares (they advertise on aertel). I told them to get me the lowest fare available - with a month in between dept. and return trips - and they did.

breadmonkey

Do I not need a malaria shot? Or do I have to take them in tablet form?

There's no such thing as a malaira shot AFAIK. It'll be tablets for you sonny.

To the OP, do a search, there are so many threads on exactly what you are looking for!

Dave!

Cheers fellas!

I've got a question... are there any courses I could do over there that aren't diving courses? I like the idea of coming back from 3 months with something productive to share, and I'd say it'd be a good way to meet people. I understand that you're able to complete a course after which you're on your way (or perhaps already there) to becoming a diving instructor. But unfortunately I've got problems with my ears, so I won't be able to do any diving at all Might be able to do a bit of snorkelling, but that's it. But are there climbing courses there for example? Or camping/outdoor survival courses? I'd be interested in those (despite having never done them before ). Also I hear you're able to do some quad biking, so maybe there's an instructors course in that.

I hope it's not the case that everything revolves around the water over there... I'll be on the beach all the time, and in the water all the time too, but I'll have to find something else to do rather than go diving.

Can ye list some more activities that I could take part in over there?

gary the great

DaveMcG wrote:

Cheers fellas!

I've got a question... are there any courses I could do over there that aren't diving courses? I like the idea of coming back from 3 months with something productive to share, and I'd say it'd be a good way to meet people. I understand that you're able to complete a course after which you're on your way (or perhaps already there) to becoming a diving instructor. But unfortunately I've got problems with my ears, so I won't be able to do any diving at all Might be able to do a bit of snorkelling, but that's it. But are there climbing courses there for example? Or camping/outdoor survival courses? I'd be interested in those (despite having never done them before ). Also I hear you're able to do some quad biking, so maybe there's an instructors course in that.

I hope it's not the case that everything revolves around the water over there... I'll be on the beach all the time, and in the water all the time too, but I'll have to find something else to do rather than go diving.

Can ye list some more activities that I could take part in over there?

I did snorkelling on Phi Phi and it was amazing. make sure you do it at Phi Phi as you get to swim with sharks and if you go to Ko Tao do it there as well.
Dunno about the quad biking i did it in Chang Mai and i dont think there is a cousre you can do, but let me tell you after driving through the thickest jungles after a days rain and you'll be an expert!

I saw loads of cooking courses advertised, expecially in Chang Mai ( this was my personal fav place) were you learn to cook thai/indian food.
I also saw classes were you can learn thai massages.

other than that there was no other courses that i really saw, but dont worry there will be plenty to keep you occupied

Dave!

Cheers for that! Anyone else know of any...?

Joeyjoejoe43

Has anybody got an email address for this Dr Ekky guy? I'm heading off in January. Would it be too early for me to get my shots?

Joeyjoejoe43

By the way does anyone know where the other thread for SE Asia has gone?