Khao Sok Pantoorat Mountain Lodge
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Humid!!
29/11 Well we boarded the train at 6.15pm for Surat Thani - a 12 hour overnight and the last of our train overnights (thank goodness!!). This was not a good train - very strange and full of little friends - cockroaches!! The beds were only 2 storey, and quite comfortable, but SO noisy!! I don't think anyone slept!! Apart from the train noises - …
Left Pattaya, now in Surat Thani
... the girl opened my room, she had wrapped a towel around herself, she looked quite a state
There was quite a bit of claret on the floor from one's nose and the others arm, none of mine though
I had to give a statement, so did the girl,(I am glad she was there to tell them in their own language, they didnt speak english and my Thai is non existant), they found the Indians at the hospital just down the road from my hotel, they didnt look ...
Day 363: luxury train
... of the wealthy traveller... I fall asleep. Finally the guy gets down and I can open his curtain.
Palm forests. Mediterranean houses... still Thai, but mediterranean Thai...It looks sunny and warm. The palms are short. Too short. A bit like some apple trees at home, special breeds to make picking easier. The rare tall trees in between remind me of tourists on the market. We reach Surat Thani before dark and I easily find a local bus to take me to the center.
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Lots of water!
... Park. Well it was a great experience, so peaceful and scenic - a wonderful taste of nature. Well I am not very confident on the water, so was quite surprised getting on a bamboo raft, with water seeping through! It was interesting....
We hiked through the rainforest (the lake is man made sometime in 90's - I forget the history of it!), that was a climb and a half, but I coped. Then went to see a cave (I ...
Disaster strikes... again
... bit stuck. Tomorrow we might go into Phucket. We weren’t planning to but there’s a BMW dealer there. I told Marcin I can get to the border and I’m confident she will make it back to Bangkok in the condition she’s in but we’ll see. I’m done, i’m home. I’m just tagging along now with time to kill so we’ll see what he decides and I’ll go along with it. If he wants to hang around one more day then that suits me ...
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