Hotel Mocambo Veracruz Patong

... enjoy. Unlike my most recent diving experience in Scotland (a serious no-no) I was blown away by what we saw. Turtles, barracuda, Nemo, blow fish, box fish and angel fish a plenty. This was all complemented by the warm water and being able to share it with Fi. On returning to the surface we got back on the boat for lunch. Shortly after lunch we moved to our next site, Table coral reef, which consisted of an artificial coral reef which had been built after the ...

... arrive &amp; the last to leave so had some to enjoy it without the masses. Went in to the beach by long tail boat that came alongside iur boat. Had 1 5 course buffet lunch on board which had some nice fish.<br><br> <br> <br><br>Heading back home we called into the other side of Panak Island where we could go swimming &amp; kayaking by ourselves &amp; explore around the little ...

... A bit same same. Then a boat to phuket. Big mistake. I hate it here and hope to never come back. You can't help but notice the amount of fat german men with beautiful young thai women its so seedy and in your face. Its also expensive and the beach isn't that great if you can make your way to the sea through the crowds of germans (nothing against germans but there is so many of them!). We fly to Singapore at the crack of drawn tomorrow for 16 hours before getting on ...

... pool at a candlelit table. Bar One on the way home as has become routine already... Amazing amount of Eastern Europeans and Scandinavians in town. We rarely hear anyone speaking English on the beach. We got a batch of dodgy San Miguels. We had been buying the big bottles which had been fine, but the batch we have now fizz like champagne when opened, and taste odd. Ended up tipping them down the drain...sob...and vowing not to buy big bottles anymore.

... I saw over 20 reef sharks on a number of dives. After the first dive our boat usually pulled in to Maya Bay for lunch (where the Beach movie was shot). Not a bad place to chill out for a surface interval of an hour and have some grub, dive off the boat or throw someone off the boat depending on how we were feeling. Second dive followed similar suit to the first, turtles, moray eels and more sharks the ...

... and everything was clean, so there wasn't really much to complain about, although as can be expected when sleeping on a train, it was a broken night's sleep and I was glad to get up and stretch my legs in the morning. Our journey from Surat Thani to Koh Phi Phi was less straightforward. We bought bus tickets from Surat Thani to Krabi, from where we would be able to catch a ferry to Koh Phi Phi. The bus stopped once and we ...

... water and perfect white sand with the clifts encolsing the whole area. we stayed there for a bit and as we left we saw the sunset. That evening we just chilled out as i was diving early the next day. Now that i had my PADI open water 18m qualification i could join some fun dives, so i went on one to some of the nearby islands. We left quite early and luckily the weather was perfect. Not a single cloud in the sky which meant diving visibility was great. we had two 1hr dives at ...

... comes into the Hotel to use the lift that Elvis is forgotten until after "the scream". It was pretty funny if you didn't think too hard about a rat being in the hotel lobby. Eventually the rat escaped from the lift and ran about the lobby freely, which led to some hysteria amongst the guests. Mum stood up to have a look and declared "So small, so what?". Mum wanted to stay and watch Elvis until the end, so Rob took the kids to bed and I stayed with Mum. What a party animal.

... ll be allowed to go back and rebuild (which everyone seems keen to do). Joy told me Maya Bay, Phi Phi Le some of the horrific things she saw when they were there to try and collect some of their things and assess the damage - it's so awful I can't even repeat it right now. Maybe later. Onto happier topics. On Phi Phi Le, the main beach where "The Beach" was filmed is in Maya Bay and was absolutely breathtakingly beautiful... Before heading to the Bay, we dropped anchor for a few hours ...

... America, same set up, same everything, just don't have to deal with the whole bs of insurance and cost. Thailand's health care system is extremely good and well trained, you wouldn't think that unless you came over here and witnessed it. After that, went and chilled at the beach....again...rough huh...lol. Carrie met up with us after her class and her, Penny and I got all of our tickets for Koh Phi Phi. Went home ...