A Memorable journey to Thailand: The Jumbo to Jumbo Trip #2
After my first TR for sqtalk forum (The Jumbo to Jumbo Trip), which sparked a few positive comments from others, I figured I should write another TR, which will be in more detail than the previous one (basically includes each day of my visit). This TR, which illustrates my most recent visit to Thailand (June 2010), is another "Jumbo to Jumbo" trip because I did take the 747 (Jumbo Jet) to Thailand to basically volunteer with elephants (jumbos) again at the Elephant Nature Park outside Chiang Mai. But this time, I'll also briefly talk about my few days in Bangkok and my 2-day tree planting volunteer experience at the Elephant Island located at the Isarn village outside of Buriram. Like the previous TR, it may not be as extravagant as others in this section, but I have faith that a few here will enjoy it like the last one! I should also point out that I am guilty of seeing an elephant show and other animal shows (crocodile show) in this trip.
I've listed the details of all the aircraft that were involved in my entire journey that basically included a "Round-the-World" journey (first time of this type of journey for me) with an all-Boeing & all-*A fleet. But I won't go into details of all the flights, as there wasn't much to report there, but basically your typical Y class service, with SQ being the best in terms of service, AC being the worst, and UA providing very decent service, which was also pleasantly surprising (quite an improvement).
The sectors I will discuss will be the KUL-BKK & CNX-BKK sectors with all my adventures in Thailand included. Before I took this trip to Thailand, I was advised by several friends, family members, and relatives, and even my own travel agent not to go into Thailand, based on the information given by the news media. However, I was adamant that I would make this trip, and against the advice of these people, I found my way on this trip, and boy was I glad I decided to actually go. Before I go in details with this TR, I should apologize in advance for a few things. Based on my previous TR, most would know that I'm not one to take pics of meals, whether it's on an aircraft or in the country, so sorry again that I didn't include them again, but will describe what they were as the TR goes on. The other apology is to SQflyergirl (I'm sure I'll still get my neck wringed by her for this) because there are a few SQFG-type legroom shots (minus the pretty toes of course) that I included without paying royalty. Final apology is for the low quality pics. I wanted to post quite a lot of photos without using too many posts so I used basic HTML tags to put a few photos together, resized them, then took screenshots of them.
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