Thai transit at it finest

Raquel & I in a songthaew at Chaweng Beach
Originally uploaded by kuckibaboo.

Hang on. That's the best advice I can give you about hitching a ride in a songthaew. What is a songthaew? Well it's a small usually brightly decorated pick up truck with 2 benches of seats in the back. The seats are usually covered by a canopy and there's quite frequently folks standing up on the tailgate. I'm pretty sure the drivers drive faster the less money you negotiate to pay but I didn't spend enough time there to test this theory. We had a particularily hair raising ride from Haad Rin to Great Bay on Koh Phangan. The roads were very steep, Russ had a hangover and we had a couple of stinking and still drinking Danish gents on their way home from a local brothel hanging off the back.