Ban Jaidee Guesthouse Trat

... again.

after struggling with everything (why does a burned back cause so much pain throughout the rest of your body??) i ate another plate of pad thai and promptly fell asleep. unfortunately, i woke up at 11 pm to blaring music and deafening bass. apparently it's not good to get the bungalow right next to the stage. lonely beach was hosting their own full moon party which another thai island is actually known for.

Koh Chang, Trat, Thailand maymay1980

... didn't really do a lot apart from wander to the restaurant attached to the minimart for some dinner and go to sleep. That night there was another MASSIVE storm, definitely the loudest one yet. And Emma slept entirely through it. That girl is a master of sleeping. Luckily still no coconuts through the roof so we were ok. The next day we still had the ped for a couple of hours so we went to a different part of the island that we hadn't seen before, turns out there wasn't much to see and ...

... 2,000 Baht/day.



Passenger boat

The first boat departs at 0800 hours and from Koh larn to Pattaya city at 0800 hours. It operates every two hours with traveling time of 45 ...

So, about those wooden bungalows. Well, they had great views and a super balcony and all, the only problem is that they also have rats. Not your garden variety city black rats, but rather jungle rats, pretty cute but not really something you want to sleep with. I can recommend Koh Wai Pakarang Resort, the people are great, the food is good, the location is super and the snorkelling ...

... her owner, with the hope that one day she can join Dollar at the Wildlife Rescue Centre. Next we visited a lady who had two pet macaques, and had realised as they grew older and more aggressive, that they needed to be cared for in a more appropriate environment. The macaques would spend most of their time in a small, dark, concrete enclosure containing nothing to keep them physically or mentally occupied. The rest of their time was spent on ...

... bus was so cheap for a 5 hour trip, why suffer if we don't have to! Halfway into the journey the skies opened up and it absolutely hosed down. No problem, we thought as we will be dropped off at the bus station from where we will get a tax to the ferry. How bad can it be? Well the bus station was a shop - pretty much in the middle of no where. The driver stood over us with umbrellas as we dragged our heavy packs out from the ...

... Tom Hanks had in achieving the same goal in Castaway and, bizarrely, the music and lyrics from the Bounty advert from when I was a kid; you know the one..."the bounty hunters are here, they're searching for paradise,...la, la...!") Not surprisingly, I gave up after 5 minutes and went back into the cool sea to wash off the rivers of sweat running down my back. I returned to find that Jo had not only taken off the hard layer of the coconut and removed the pithy ...