Baan Khao Lak Resort Phangnga

... and Trevor parked his **** next to Helen, who by the way had never been on an elephant before and may have wanted to take pictures of ONLY HERSELF on an elephant without his mug in the shot....... mmmmmm strange....... I guess he had his reasons! Anyways we all went out for dinner together that night which was a pleasant 10/15 min stroll into town ( well main street anyway ) and on the way back we stopped in at a massage parlor for a Thai massage and foot rubs. Very nice and a great ...

... There we found out that rather than stay at Surat Thani for one night like we planned, we could get a minibus to Khao Sok National Park, our next destination. So from there we got a local taxi which was basically a small pickup truck with a roof over the back, to yet another random station where we finally caught the minibus to Khao Sok. The first night we spent in a treehouse however it only had a double bed and lots of ants so we changed to a ...

... and preservation of the cave formations so I hope that we have not damaged any part of that area of rain forest and that future visitors treat it well. For the hour drive back to our hotel we crammed the three of us with 2 English girls into the cab of a truck (the other 5 members of our group in the cab). Our driver spoke very little English (apparently) so when the social English girls tried to strike up conversation he responded ...

... rebuild the home of a fisherman on Kho Khao island in Thailand. Thanks in large part help from Tyler Nelson, I had a general idea of what island that it was. Nonetheless, it was going to be a challenge. The only pictures I had were when the structure was barely more than a foundation. Tyler's directions were taken from memory and understandably very vague "I think the village is named Thung Tuk ...

... we'll just book out tours through the "shopping centre" past the driveway of the Resort. Over it! We enter the gates of paradise and get back to the hard work that is relaxation. We locate the kids and crack the homework whip before taking them swimming for the rest of the afternoon. At the pool I get a better feel for the cross section of current Resort guests. Quite a few Mr and Mrs Perfects. She's gorgeous and he's amazingly gorgeous - buff ...

... no thanks, I already had reservations at Khao Sok Rainforest Resort. Once we FINALLY got on the rode it was like 6 pm. I met a very nice coupld from the U.K. who had been traveling for 5 months and were going to continue traveling for a total of 2 years or "as long as the money lasts". I love people like that even though they make me insanely jealous. They raved about Laos and it made me mad that I didnt go like I had wanted to. Another guy was in the bus ...

... an island that was used as a filming location for "The Man With the Golden Gun." I will try and get a picture uploaded at some point instead of trying to describe it with my inadequate prose, if prose is even what you call this. The Mulsim fishing village is actually built over the ocean. Many of the houses are built with stilts that are sunk into the mud bottom, but much of the village rests on floating barrels. I don't know exatly how ...

... avec Popeye (accident de Tuba ou autre nous ne saurons jamais). Du coup, au premier coup d'oeil, j'ai une legere tendance a me marrer. La ressemblance est d'autant plus forte que son Olive est sur le bateau, ce qui nous a donne une ambiance love love Popeye-Olive. Nous avons au total effectue 9 plongees dont 2 de nuit. De jour, nous avons vu les requins leopard, les trigger fish, des lion fish, des butterflyfish, des Nemos, des ...

... for four nights through an on-line service, a banner at the entrance giving the lie of their inflated rate, we don't know how the refund will shakedown, but even the cost of the room won't hold us there; we're on vacation. Iad drives us down the beach into town, which is itself only brief and recently rebuilt. The tsunami has required the rebuilding of virtually everything along this stretch. The power of the storm is displayed in its awesome scope when we see a ...

... enough for Alasdair but Nicola was wearing a skirt, so a level of hitching was required. We had a further 3 fittings to make sure it all fitted. So, for the first three weeks we're back we'll have clothes that fit until English lager and Alasdair's cooking take hold again. We had thought about going to Ko Phi Phi (pronounced pee-pee - tee hee) but with the weather so poor we didn't think it worth the trip. On the one day it was nice all day ...