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Thailand as the country was to visit in 1995

Larry
2006-05-27 03:31:03

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THAILAND

Of the four countries we went to on this vacation, the most time was
spent in Thailand. Upon returning from Cambodia, we decided to head up
north first and visit Bangkok at the end of the trip instead of at the
beginning. It turned out that for the most part, this was a wise idea,
because throughout Thailand, we managed to have perfect timing with our
travels.
When trying to get to Cambodia from Hong Kong, we were forced to have a
layover at Bangkok Airport on the way to Cambodia. This worked out well in
the end because we had time that day between flights to go over to the Thai
ticket counter and make some airline reservations for when we would return
back to Thailand. Travelling by plane within Thailand is very cheap. Many
one-ways are only $20 or $30, and the most we paid for a one-way was around
$60 (on Thai Airways). Bangkok Airways is a private company that flies to
Koh Samui, and that was more expensive (over twice the amount of a similar
Thai ticket) but Bangkok Airways has the monopoly on flights to the few
places they serve (like Koh Samui).
Phones: While in the airport for that layover, I wanted to call home to
check messages on the answering machine, but the payphones in Thailand won't
work with the "call-home" numbers that Sprint, MCI, and AT&T give out
(apparently, only private phones will allow calls to these numbers). So I
went to the booth that handled post and telecommunications, and they wanted
to charge a lot of money to place the call. The problem was, if my phone
didn't answer by the 2nd ring, I wanted to be able to hang up and not pay
for the call (ie, no messages) ...