Palm Galleria Resort Takua Pa

... with the technicalities but will just say that the dive computer keeps track of your dives and your depths and after awhile it starts to get a bit angry with you and begins to limit the time you can spend underwater. A day off solves this because your body has now had time to completely “wash out” or in other words….all the built up nitrogen in your body has been released and your computer knows this and is happy with you again. I have had the ...

... the table and you leaving) There were many different dishes, vegetarian included...whole grilled fish, curries, rice dishes, noodles, fried vegetables, fruit plates etc.... It was incredible. I would take two bites and they would take the dish in front of me and refill it before you could say I don't... anyways, I had never seen anything like it here.
Either way it was a jungle paradise and my favorite thing I have done so far... it was well worth the 2500 baht.

... because they really drag me down when they end. I used to be impervious to this sort of **** but I have grown weak in my old age and find that my heart has become more brittle. How the hell did this happen? I’m supposed to be the guy who doesn’t care about much of anything as he traipses across Asia and yet somewhere along the line the emotional involvement with these crazy girls became too much for me. I definitely need to take a year off ...

Back to the roots
Having said bye bye to Nico, Sam and I were fond to get some more nature than in the last days. So we decided to head to the Khao Sok national park, which is not that long away from Surat Thani, the arrival point of the boat from Ko Phangan.

Khao Sok national park is located in Surat Thani province in Thailand. The park comprises the largest area of virgin forest in Southern Thailand and is a remnant ...

... back to where we originally boarded the bamboo raft. We waited for a little bit and the rain seemed to stop. While we were waiting, we switched into our long pants and put deet spray all over us, especially our feet. Why our feet? LEECHES! The leeches were probably the one thing I was most afraid of this whole trip because I had heard they were really painful to remove. I tucked my pants into my socks and sprayed the hell out of my feet and off we went ...

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I made a beeline to the scooter when we got back to the dock and I zoomed off. The light was already dimming and when I got to the highway I pushed the scooter to 50 KPH and hoped for the best. I turned off the highway toward the hotel right as it was getting really dark...whew! Well, it was not what I had planned, but it was a great day and it felt good to push past what I was afraid of.

... idols, des serpents de mer a bandes (serpent le plus venimeux ce la planetes (15 sec t'es mort) mais qui a un si petite bouche qu'il ne peut pas te mordre (en theorie)), des oursins aux picants immenses, des murenes, des raies, des olothuries de competition, des coraux de toutes les formes et de toutes les couleurs, des parrots fish et des boxfish, enfin bref un veritable aquarium. Les deux dernieres especes citees sonts mes ...

... jolie mais rien d'autre si ce n'est un camping coince sur le bord de l'autoroute. De loin le pire endroit qu'on ait vu depuis le debut de notre voyage, et dans lequel on reste coince 4 jours pour des raisons logitisques (la reservation de 4 jours de plongee juste apres le Nouvel An). Il nous faudra louer une moto et explorer la region plusieurs jours pour enfin trouver a plusieurs ...

... get ****** (drunk, not angry.) It should be mentioned that we are among the very few Americans vacationing here. In large proportion the place is populated by visitors from Scandinavia; some Germans but it is the Swedes, Fins and Danes. As tourists, it is as if only the eye shape of the temple visitor drones in Cambodia has changed. The general demeanor of these people reflects the chill of their climate and they seem to pack all the zany good humor of a Bergman film.

So, I've always been under the impression that there are three kinds of humidity. One is just dry ("Yeah, but it's a dry heat"), one is Moderatey Humidity ("Sure is muggy today", and one is Extreme Humidity ("Omigodturnontheairconditionericantbre athe!") I've experienced dry, I've experienced Moderate Humidity (most of this trip has been moderately humid), and Extreme Humidity (there's been a few days on this trip, and there were a few during ...