Elephant Hills Tented Camp Surat Thani

... call the boat people. After waiting to get through to them for what seemed like forever, he had a short conversation, replaced the phone then informed me that due to "Big Wave", the night ferry at 11pm would not be running, and I would have to stay in the town overnight. "But do not worry - I know cheap hotel!" he offered, before snatching up the phone once more and bashing out a number. I was picked up by a friendly woman on a moped ten minutes later, and we headed ...

... trekking on one of the islands to get great views of lake. Again there were more leeches here (but no armpit attacks!) and apparently at one point were being watched by a wild elephant (but because they can be really dangerous we werent alerted to the fact until we came back!).

As well as the wild elephants there are tigers (but they keep well hidden) and gibbons which we saw on our early morning kayak!

... A.D. walked into the shop and returned with 2 beers and with a smile told me that we were looking at another 3 hours... What a joke!! Gee, he's funny. It was a very hot 1.5 hours to get to Ko Samui. We arrived at the ferry terminal and followed 'our private' taxi driver up the road to jump into a maxi cab with 7 other people - hmmm. The cab driver asked which hotel we were each going to and one of our fellow ...

... and an hour later we pulled in to Surat Thani. Surat Thani is the eastern coast equivalent of Krabi, a coastal fishing town of pleasant but unremarkable order from which most ferries to the islands leave. We were dropped off at the night-ferry pier, where at 11pm three identical overnight boats would depart for Ko Samui, Ko Pha-Ngan, and Ko Tao respectively. These were "cargo ships, not luxury liners. Bring plenty of repellent an watch your bags," Lonely Planet ...

... Jess and I headed out immediately upon landing in Phuket thinking that we had only a 5%-10% percent chance of being successful. I hired a private driver to drive us approximately 125 km north to a small village called Talet Takua Pa. The nearest place that you can find on a map is probably the resort town of Khao Lak. Although I was quite tired from the early flight, anticipation wouldn't allow ...

Just to let everyone know i am still alive and ok! i haven't been updating because we haven't really been doing alot untill today. mainly we have been being beach bums on koh phangan! went on a cool boat trip round the island then stayed at this place called moon flower bungalows. we went to the black moon party which was awsome! so much UV everywhere! we then travelled here to khao sok national park and have spent the day wandering round dense tropical rainforest ...

Live and let dive. Si trova spesso sulle magliette in circolazione in posti come Khao Lak. La canzona citata e distorta e' "Live and let Die" e credo sia dei Guns and And Roses. In posti del genere si ironizza molto su t-shirts, cappellini e indumenti di vario tipo su questo tipo di sport. A volte immagino posti completamente diversi con sport altrettanto divers. Chissa' chi fa Kite surf a Capo Verde cosa ha scritto sulla schiena. Che humor e modi di fare hanno i surfisti ...

... ott, es rengeteg thai turista jott megnezni a szokoar emlekmuvet. A Khao Lak nemzeti parkot sikerult egyedul turhetonek nevezni, de ezt is 1 ora alatt bejartuk. Na, de mi azert toltottunk ott 3 napot, mert Vince unokatestvere, baraja es baratnoje es mi egy 4 napos hajoutra indultunk egyutt, ahol a fo attrakcio a buvarkodas volt.

... food and friendly conversation. If you've ever been to Hamburger Mary's in Hawaii or San Francisco you have a sense of how an eclectic, ad hoc decor actually creates a sense of continuity. Mamas was one of the bars that was wiped out on the beach and now rebuilt on the roadside. Directly across the street is the Tsunami memorial/museum ...