Khao Lak Sunset Resort

We woke up at 5pm.. it turned out we did have jetlag. We got a cab to the train station and caught a train to Chumphon. We couldnt book a bed even though the train was an overnight one. All night we were on hard chairs, which wasnt too bad seeing ...

... them anyway..........King Rama V is the one who had many many wives and innumerable offspring...........anyway this particular one was the founding father of the Thai Royal Navy.......and a Shrine has been erected in his memory......typically located on prime real estate this Shrine is perched on high with sweeping views of coastline and surrounding island.<br> <br>A Thai Navy ship named The Chumphon ......a full attack ...

... tourists in this town, so logically &#8211; no menu in English. I visited quite a few places, until I came to this one and the answer to my standard question "do you have English menu?" was: &#8220;We don&#8217;t, but we are happy to make anything you like&#8221;. Without a doubt, I asked for red curry and seafood &#8211; it was the best and the cheapest meal I had so far in Asia.<br><br>After a nice meal I was desperate for my daily dose ...

... met so far say while you may have to work for it, public transportation is available. We were very excited to finally catch up on almost a weeks worth of lost sleep and find a decent place to stay. It turns out that quite a few guest houses in Krabi have free wireless so were excited to take advantage of that and hope it continues throughout Thailand. Once we finally found a place within our range we went around comparing tour prices for kayaking ...

so i had an interesting week last week. i had been in communique with ninny for a few weeks and she wanted to come out to khao lak and check it out. me being the idiot that i am said ok and one day after my diving trip there she was in all her crazy thai glory. things went pretty decent for the first 3-4 days but at the 4 day mark i was sending her on her way with a few kind words and my size 12 sandal planted firmly in her ass. i ...

We took the bus earlyish as its an 8 hour bus ride, but a fun one - Looking out the window on the way it seems like the road is cut through mountains and woodland and some of the roads really are not for the faint hearted. We stopped once for about 10 minutes but apart from that it was straight through. I saw this sign on the way - Ghengis Khan resturant - I'm ...

... to waste - even the snack options were eagerly depleted! One other interesting occurrence while on the boat, was the sighting of a Bangladeshi refugee "ship" that had probably been at sea for the past five or six days. These people had no food, water or shelter and it felt very incongruous in this beautiful setting, with a number of luxury boats surrounding them, before there deportation. At least all the boats did ...

... 20 minutes of this before I had enough. They were nice enough to shut up, after I made a 'very polite' request to keep it down (make of that as you will) The next morning, we were dragged out of bed at 5am (not 6am as what was expected). We were good but the poor Party folk were obviously suffering. Then the train slowed down and stopped and more than 1/2 the carriage got off. The word 'Bangkok' was floating up and down the carriage. After a quick survey ...

Am Morgen sind wir von der Tourorganisation abgeholt worden fuer unsere James-Bond Island Tour. Wir haben gar nicht gewusst was alles inbegriffen war, das haben wir alles gemacht: In der Phan Nga Bucht mit dem Boot gefahren, die schoenen Felsen angeschaut, mit einem Kanu in der Bucht rumgefahren, Mittagessen ...

... hopefully the other will be tomorrow). Still not sure what's happening on the diving front though. We're pretty much hanging around and eating, we invested in four good books this morning! xxxxx Soooooo, a quick update on life. The fingers are bandage free but still have to be water-free for another day. We've sorted the diving and booked ourselves on to a live-board. Friday morning till Sunday evening, 10 dives in total and from what we've heard we've been extremely ...