Ko Lanta, Thailand Travel Blogs

Bikini's, Beaches, Booze- I like B's
Mar 10, 2007 (1 photos)

... long tail hired Captain, named Sok, loved his day as he took four bikini clad girls from our island beach front resort in Ko Lanta to various lagoons and bays along the way, including Pilah and Ko Phi Phi Don where the aftermath of the 2005 Tsunami is ...

From Enemas to Anenomes via Nemo
Mar 31, 2004 (17 photos)

... and accomplished underwater film-maker who records customers dives with a digital camcorder. After Phi Phi became overcrowded they relocated to Ko Lanta where they hooked up with Narima who were wanting a Dive Shop anyway. They'd only been on Lanta three ...

Mamma Mia, Here Are My Shades Again
Mar 27, 2004 (3 photos)

... Thai girls in 'Relax Bay' vests flitted around efficiently. Relax Bay was fast becoming our favourite resort of our travels and Ko Lanta our favourite island. 28/2 It was time to get off our lazy butts and start exploring the island, so we ...

Ko Lanta
Mar 22, 2008 (8 photos)

We wake up slowly and make our way to the pier to hop on a boat to Ko Lanta.  On the way, I get a more clear view of just how bad the tourism destruction is as the beach is lined with chairs 3 or 4 rows deep here.  The boat ride is sunny and ...

Day 107
Dec 30, 2006

So today was supposed to be our journey from Ko Lanta to Ko Samui! However our taxi pick up arrived at 8am but we were in no state to take it. Instead, we spent the whole day moping around the Sanctuary bungalow getting over the hangover. We returned to ...

Day 106
Dec 29, 2006 (3 photos)

At 11am we boarded a boat for a two hour trip to Ko Lanta. I'd heard some good things about this island and felt it deserved a couple of days and Neil agreed. The boat was packed and the sun was strong and getting burned was a worry. There was no shade and ...

So, where's your tan then?
Mar 25, 2004 (6 photos)

************************ Friday 19th March After a dispute at our hotel over internet payment, we boarded the Ko Lanta ferry a little flustered and out of pocket. We hadn't taken off our backpacks or found a seat before we were preyed upon by touts ...

Sun, sand, beer and old friends
Apr 9, 2007 (5 photos)

... be any more descriptive than that because you know what I mean. The toilet thing was just an example. Anyway... I arrived in Ko Lanta and couldn't remember where Carsten was staying so first I had to find an Internet station in the blistering heat with ...

Two English Bangers Sizzling With Danish Rashers
Mar 20, 2004 (5 photos)

... of the truck as they struggled to stay upright and onboard while sitting on their rucsacs. We finally arrived at Bamboo Bay, Ko Lanta's last beach and third last resort. A nice restaurant area sat perched over a rocky beach with twenty or so bungalows ...

Ko Se-Lanta: It's proper Ko I tell thee!
Dec 3, 2003 (4 photos)

... December 1st. [Apologies for the stupid title, but I know a few of you will understand.] Moby had heard that the island of Ko Lanta was good, so we decided to spend a few days there. On the 1.5 hour boat trip we passed several other islands, including ...

Hello from heaven er i mean ko lanta a ...
Jan 4, 2003 (6 photos)

Hello from Heaven ... er ... I mean Ko Lanta ... a beautiful little island in the south of Thailand. It's so nice here, we may never leave. Before I tell you about Ko Lanta ... we hope everyone had a nice Christmas surrounded by the love of friends and ...

Ko Lanta, two orders of food poisoning please.
Apr 15, 2006 (10 photos)

... that would take us to Lanta Yai. This ferry ride was barely two minutes. They could easily build a bridge between the two islands. Ko Lanta island was one of the places hit by the tsunami. In fact where we stayed was right on the beach that was hit. ...

Ko Lanta, Thailand... a little piece of paradise
Dec 4, 2004 (5 photos)

Ko Lanta - our holiday in the sun I think we are in love with Thailand! Ko Lanta island has everything you could ask for on a holiday - great beach, fantastic food, friendly locals, colourful and easy diving, and all extremely cheap. We have spent ...

Ko Lanta - Last of the Thai Islands
Sep 7, 2006 (4 photos)

... this morning we were served a delicious big brekkie....all for less than 20quid a night, in the high season its double and more!! Ko Lanta is a big island compared to Ko PP, its green and mountainous, its a Muslim island as was Ko PP and it was unusual ...

Beautiful beaches, secluded and fun!
Mar 28, 2006 (3 photos)

... the conditions tomorrow. 30/03 (Thursday) Have had another great day here. Now is 6PM and the sun is setting, the sunsets on Ko Lanta are always great and last a long time. Trudie has just been having a phone interview and I've been playing with the ...

Ko Lanta
Mar 4, 2005 (1 photos)

To get back to the mainland and back on track for Malaysia, we decided to take the ferry to Ko Lanta after meeting a guy on Phi Phi who told us that his family would be re-opening their guesthouse for the first time since the Tsunami that day. Again we ...

Swedish Island?
Apr 12, 2008 (9 photos)

We jumped on a "fast ferry" for the 1 hour ride to our next and last stop in Thailand "Ko Lanta." Ko Lanta is popular with tourists seeking a holiday away from the parties. It's popular with a significantly older crowd (which we are in body, not soul ...

Leaving our little paradise - for Koh Lanta
May 26, 2008

... would leave the next day and head over to the East Coast to start our time on the east coast islands. So.. Koh Lanta was a bit disappointing.  Perhaps in high season it might have been a bit more interesting, but the glass on the beach really ...

How to be a Castaway
Mar 8, 2006

... -based, more spread out, and has more families, the water seems a bit cooler and the beach where I stayed went deep pretty quickly. Ko Lanta reminds me a bit of Kawaii, very green, hilly, and spread out. It's really beatiful here. At night, the sky is ...

Stuck in the Blue Andaman
Dec 16, 2007

... sharks.  I even had to buy the lanta diving t shirt.  All of the dive instructors were english or swedish really (Ko Lanta is like a Swedish colony...it even has 3 Swedish schools!!), they can't get working visas so it was quite funny when the ...

Last stop in Thailand
Nov 8, 2007 (6 photos)

We managed to fit in one last stop in Thailand, on the island of Ko Lanta Yai.  Lanta is a quiet place with some lovely beaches, they only got mains electricity and phone lines on the island in the last ten years.  A minibus took us from Krabi ...

The Solo journey begins. Phuket to Ko Lanta
Sep 13, 2006 (15 photos)

... with gratitude, I feed Gahl handfuls of bananas. I finish my day back at the guesthouse beach bar, by playing jenga with the staff and two crazy Frenchmen, Sebastien and Laurent. I leave Ko Lanta the following morning for Khoa Sok National Park.

Days 28 and 29 - Ko Phi Phi
Dec 26, 2007

Our last few days in Ko Phi Phi were spent generally lazing around getting ready for the next big journey to Austrailia. I want as much tan as possible before we go there as we're expecting it to be very hot. We decided that it was time to dump some of our ...

Days 28 and 29 - Ko Phi Phi
Dec 26, 2007

Our last few days in Ko Phi Phi were spent generally lazing around getting ready for the next big journey to Austrailia. I want as much tan as possible before we go there as we're expecting it to be very hot. We decided that it was time to dump some of our ...

Days 28 and 29 - Ko Phi Phi
Dec 26, 2007

Our last few days in Ko Phi Phi were spent generally lazing around getting ready for the next big journey to Austrailia. I want as much tan as possible before we go there as we're expecting it to be very hot. We decided that it was time to dump some of our ...

Ko Lanta
Dec 5, 2008 (7 photos)

Nach einer etwa einstuendigen Ueberfahrt liefen wir auf Ko Lanta in der Hafenstadt Saladan ein. Bereits auf der Ueberfahrt hatten sich mehrere Thais unter die Reisenden gemischt, um ihre Resorts auf Ko Lanta anzupreisen. Da wir uns zuvor noch keine ...

Getting to Ko Lanta, the unusual way
Jan 6, 2009

... arrived, got stamped into Thailand and were immediately hassled as to where we wanted to go. Our plan was to try and get to Ko Lanta that day which had seemed feasible but with the time lost at the port we were now pushing it.  The guy from the ...

Catch up an our journey so far
Nov 22, 2006 (15 photos)

Sorry we havent been in touch so i appologise for the very long update, you might have had some of it already. But i do like to repeat myself!! We had an early start, 5am to be precise to watch over 300 monks collecting alms (food) from local people ...

Ko Lanta
Jun 2, 2009

 

Wait a minute, they're not ninjas!
Dec 30, 2008 (19 photos)

... and we all had a good laugh about it after. When all the fun with the fish was done we started the long boat ride back to Ko Lanta. We had been applying sunscreen all day each time we got out of the water but to no avail. Both me and Rachel were ...