Muang Tai Hotel Surat Thani

... vid skinnid. :/

Hossudumst tarna i bilnum i ca 5 tima (Kristin aetlar ad taka ad ser ad kenna taelenskum okumonnum ad keyra). Tegar vid komum tangad meikudum vid ekki ad ferdast meira, vildum bara komast i husaskjol med rumi og fa eitthvad ad borda og klosett. Stoppudum tarna en forum ekki ut a eyjuna.

Nuna vorum vid bunar ad ferdast i ca 27 klst og fengum HIMNASENDINGU.

Gistingin, Ban Don Hotel, sem Lonely Planet maelti med ...

... Lan Lake in Khao Sok NP. I struggled to eat breakfast in the morning, my tummy still wasn't fully recovered. We got picked up early and it was a 1.5hr ride in the back of a pick up truck till we got to the lake. As it was only 8.30am I didn't think I needed ...

... that makes up Thailand. From Surart Thani to Donsak we passed some 'slums' for lack of a better word, dotted with large furniture warehouses containing seemingly mass-produced items alongside countryfolk crafting their own wares. The bus zipped quickly passed many a scooter with all sorts of sights that would make the Aussie cops cringe ranging from men carrying various items precariously balanced to women with young children ...

... who honestly didn't seem to know what they were talking about in regards to anything, and wing it. Was this a terrible mistake? Nope. When we finally arrived at the train station, a Belgian friend we'd made who cockily taunted us about the comfy bed he'd reserved wandered into the waiting area and lounged around. We approached the ticket window. There were in fact bunks still available on the 9:30pm train, three hours later than the ...

... but I fell asleep... woke up a few times, then woke up for good at 5:40 am when we docked in Koh Phangan. I somehow managed to get off the ferry on the tiny gang plank with my suitcase, the 5 of us gathered, and then caught a mini bus to The Last Resort (the guest house). Sebastian, the owner, doesn't take reservations--I had just found the place on lonely planet.com (http://hotels.lonelyplanet.com/hotel/K o-Phangan-The-Last ...

Yesterday morning at 8:00am, a man dressed in khaki driving an old rugged looking Land Rover picked us up from our hotel in Krabi and drove us north to the Khao Sok National Park for a two day jungle adventure with Siam Safari. Using the Earth Lodge as our "homebase", we spent the first day canoeing down a river and riding on the backs of elephants ...

... Andy after flatly refusing for the whole trip up to that point. It was awesome and as we zoomed down the bay at breakneck speed across the waves, I promised myself that I will definately learn to swim when I get home!!!! Lastnight (Monday night) we went for a strange experience - a meal at an all you can eat Thai BBQ restaurant called Mr Poo's. Not to put too fine a point on it, the clue is in the name!!!! We got there to find a huge ...

... use. Theses three had concrete floors instead of sand floor and were often used in walking meditations when it was raining. Towards the back of the property, there were serveral ponds with paths around them, used for group and individual walking meditations. The square pond had large fish swimming in it and a bridge out to an island in the middle. At night, we did the group walking meditation in the dark, and our way was lit by these tall candle torches. This was the perfect ...

... wicked! Ooh and then we had bananas dipped in coconut and fried -scrummy! Unfortunately it started to rain on the way back but we were already wet so no big deal! This did mean we couldnt go on the night safari, but we had an amazing dinner to make up for it! The usuals of green curry and fried glass noodles were there, plus this massive fish cooked with sweet chili sauce - really good, plus vegetables of various sorts, and rice, and some other stuff i forgot... we ...

Two hours before our train left, we collected our bags and had something to eat. We then went and sat on our backpacks in the middle of the station with some other Westerners who were doing the same thing. I felt the need to find the toilets and was surprised by the 10 baht admission fee. As soon as I paid I realised that it was a mistake. There was a woman mopping the floor, streaking it even more with muddy swipes. The toilets were full of girls and women of all ages. I ...