It's time for the part of the trip most feared by A9 and G6. Four travel vaccinations each to keep us as healthy as possible while we travel Asia. Possibly, if had just been the dutchman and I, we wouldn't have had as many as we did, but we feel more responsibility to the children to avoid avoidable illness! After a very informative meeting at the travel clinic in Christchurch, I came home with a list of essential vaccinations and a price estimate equivalent to 2 months of our travel budget??!! ($3220!). Luckily having done my homework, I knew that the medical centres in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur can provide all these jabs at a fraction of the cost. Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute is well known and respected by travellers worldwide. It is close to Lumpini Park and Silom. There is a snake farm on site, which we enjoyed strolling around. It includes displays on how they extract venom for antidotes. We saw a huge king cobra and a massive Burmese python, amongst many others. It was like 'where's wally' trying to find them in each enclosure! What did we need? After much discussion, we chose for the little ones to get Hep A, Typhoid, and Japanese encephalitis. The dutchman and I both needed Typhoid vaccine as well as boosters for tetanus and Hep A. We also decided to add Japanese encephalitis vaccine as we were making the children get them and it only seemed fair! Prices: in NZ in Thailand Hepatitis A $100 1400 baht (NZ$56) Typhoid $ 65 400 baht (NZ$15) Tetanus $ 30 80 baht (NZ$3) Japanese encephalitis $ 610 460 baht (NZ$18) (THB 9,360) TOTAL for 4 of us NZ $3220 (NZ$365) (US$ 2256) (US$ 265)
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