A friend and i will be going to thailand around the 5th of dec for 15 days. i am a some what active person he definitely is, we are going on R&R from afghanistan (army) so we wanted to do something different and exciting and explore. we are both 25. we want to experience a lil bit of everything. this is the schedule i have came up with so far. Open to all suggestions and comments. i have not looked up specific tours or places to accomplish these things so any info on those things or accommodations would be excellent budget for this trip is 3k usd per person not including airfare since the army provides it. we can go over the budget no biggie we just wanna get as much out of this trip as possible.

5 Fly to BKK

day

6-8 Grand Palace

Reclining Buddha at Wat Pho

Damnoen Saduak Floating Market

Jim Thompson's House

muay thai m,w,t,f,s

Chatuchak Market

Wat Phra Kaew

Wat Arun

hard rock

Khao San Road

nite

BedSupper Club. Hip hop nite tues

Vertigo: Bangkok’s Sky High Sunset Bar

night market

Soi Cowboy

Patpong

Route 66

9 Fly to Ko Pha Ngan and explore a lil

10 @day explore @nite Full moon party

11 Free day/ diving

12 @day Fly to BKK @nite Explore

13 Day trip to Kanchanabur

14 Day trip to Ayuttaya

15 Fly to Chaing Mai/ explore

16-17 Visit Wat Doi Suthep

Wat Phra Singh

tiger kingdom

Ride elephant

Visit the night market

18 Chaing Rai/ day trip to hill side tribes

19 Fly to BKK

20 open day for anything forgot

21 Fly to Afghanistan

Sounds doable for a young man. Regarding the diving, if you don't do too many dives then that should be fine but if you are a serious diver then I would take time to rest before flying the next day.

For the North, Chiang Mai -Chiang Rai area this could be fun for you: http://www.treetopasia.com/

Also if you have more time I would try and visit a nearby town "Pai", very laid back, lots of pubs with chill music, restaurants etc and very inexpensive.

Have fun!

WOW, that is a lot but then you have lots of energy...

many of the chain hotels will have military discounts: sheratons, marriott, hilton/conrad, intercontinental... look on the hotel websites...

if you want to be where the action is, then i suggest that you stay in the sukhumvit/plenochit area in bkk.... the jw marriott is well located, as is the sheraton grande and the westin....the renaissance and the courtyard and intercontinental are also well located... hyatt too...

you will want a hotel with a pool...

not sure if it is worth your time to go to chiang mai as those things are available elsewhere....

hotel sites: www.agoda.com
www.sawadee.com
www.asiarooms.com

hire tong for the day to take you to some sights outside of bkk: www.tourwithtong.com
she is fabulous and will give you a really nice day...

btw, thanks for your service

only planning to do one or 2 dives since we have never done it before and also why would i want a hotel with a pool? just wondering because i dont plan to be at the hotel much with my current plans lol

btw whats like a good price range for hotels because of everything being so cheap over there and the conversion rate being so go i didnt know what a decent hotel went for. ive seen some on sites that are like 15 bucks and some that are 200 so dont exactly know how to choose the right budget for that. all we want is a simple hotel thats close to pretty much everything and is safe other than that we dont care.

If you are just taking the introductory diving course then you will be OK. My comment was for regular experienced divers.