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Koh Samui up to Surat Thani
Finally off Koh Samui and making our way up to mainland Surat Thani. Getting to KL is a 25 hour coach journy for £65, or another flashpackers 2 hour £104 flight - uummm tricky one.
Broke my £150 pound fishing rod having without catching a single fish (emailed Cairns for emergency ...
Day 363: luxury train
... and sleeps. The German behind me is quite fat and I don't dare leaning my seat back too much to be able to see out of his window. Apart from this I found several more reasons for which I prefer my third class: The windows don't open and are too dirty to take pictures through them. The seats are in rows behind eachother like airplane seats and nobody talks to anyone except the person they are travelling with. A meal was served at the beginning (spicy chicken ...
2nd day in Khao Sok <3
... a 6k trek and took 3hours. We saw 2 monitor lizard, a horn bill bird, fish, 2 little lizards, a million different types of butterflies and too many leaches!!! Dad even got attacked by a leach (luckily i only got one on my shoe). Half way through the trek our guide decided that we needed a swim under the waterfalls, so that's what we did. (the water was very refreshing)
After that we went back to our hut and had tea and went to bed.
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Khao Sok National Park
... t make it to the lake because it was just too expensive to hire a car and a boat and we knew we were going to see a similar landscape further south in Krabi.
We stayed for another day just to relax and enjoy the area outside of the park (and get caught in a soaking downpour during a walk). I was sad to leave because I loved Khao Sok for its quietness, its non-touristiness, and it's beautiful terrestrial landscape. But off to more ...
Disaster strikes... again
... my tools that just barely did the job and it just managed to press out a pin and get another link off. We did the same trick and split another. With the wheel rolled all the way in we could just reconnect the chain.... in theory.
We had a bent pin and sealed it with two very knackered X-rings and tapped the pin back in until it was just touching the other link plate. With much growling and shouting, mostly at one another we got the clamp tool to ...
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