Papillon Bungalows Resort Ko Lanta

... ck all is so good when there's nobody to disturb you too, like the millions of Thai people jangling trinkets, clothes, wooden sound-making things and you name it in your face every ten minutes. A lifeline at least!
I ended up at the Jungle Viewpoint Cafe (pretty self-explanatory) - my heart lept out of my chest as I realised that there was another person eating there!! WOW - a sign of life! A sign that I haven't died and am not actually walking around my ...

... fairy lights and lanterns adorning the mountainside. The food was……………. .er but the ambience was lovely. We found Boo and her brother there, her mother is the chef. Mika played happily with Boo. I had previously made several attempts to discuss how we could help her. I had spoken to Napoli but the general view was that Boo is an unlucky girl from a bad family. Still, I asked again. This time, a staff member at the Shroom Bar if someone knew what we could do ...

... s character if we were to do that. Anyways, they informed me that the only way to get to it was to go on an organized tour and that would involve a full day on a boat visitng three islands in total. 'Surely I can just go to Maya?' I asked. 'Nope' the speedy reply came. 'Not unless you want to charter a boat and that will cost upwards of twenty pounds'. 'Upwards of twenty Pounds? I don't think so!' I retorted. 'That may well end up costing more than the spoils I recover!' I ...

... eggs to make it a bit more normal. Easter Monday, however, was Thai New Year. B, who is second-in-command at our resort, and the other staff did a lovely ceremony of anointing our hands with flower-scented water and our faces with clay. She also made us orchid necklaces and showed us how to do the same to the Buddha. Luckily we were prepared for a more riotous experience outside of the resort (reading all the details in the guidebook does ...

... show us to our room. Ao Nang was a busy little seaside town with lots of shops, restaurants and bars. The beach itself was not brilliant but it is a great place to explore from. The highlight for us was a long-tail boat trip out to Railay - a beautiful beach village peninsular which is completely cut off from the mainland by incredible cliffs. It has one particular beach that was described by ...

... a cold glass of water and an ice cold wet hand towel. Bliss!
The ceremony was short and sweet but the photo's took a little bit longer. Tom, Shirley and I shared a table with a work colleague of Ben & Sarah called Alex and his wife Julia. Yo and Grant were there as well and this is actually were we met rather than on the boat whilst diving. There was just loads of food. So much that I was pretty much done after the starter ...

... the MoonWalk Resort and noticed they had rooms available. It also had a pool and seemed a lot friendlier than our resort, it was close to the rest of the bars and restaurants too. On Wednesday we checked out of the Blue Andaman. We didn't say we were going to another resort, just that we were travelling around, but the man behind reception was really rude about us leaving!! We got a tuk tuk down the road to the MoonWalk, as it was hot and our backpacks were heavy! The ...

... a few more tourists before accelerating across the sea at what felt like sub light speed. As we ploughed through the waves like a speedboat through concrete slabs, gripping onto the rail I thought "oh yes!" We arrived at Phi Phi after about 45 minutes, everyone looked shaken but not too stirred and we jumped into the sea. Amazingly, the sun broke through the clouds for the first time since we had arrived in Thailand. As I was wandering if the day could get ...

... say "snorkel here...come up when ready". So we did. We snorkeled with the fish, looked at the coral reefs down below...and came up when we were ready. From there he took us Monkey Beach. It's called this because there are monkeys that live there. But I must warn you, they are not the friendliest looking things. We pulled up to the beach & saw one of the longboats getting robbed by a monkey. He took a bottle of Coke & jumped back into ...

... this factor with swimming in the ocean and having the sun sap you of your elements, and you've got a pretty action packed day, imo) on one of the most beautiful beaches on the planet, Phra Nang, complete with powdery white sand, emerald green water, soaring limestone rocks and islands dotting the seas in your range of vision, and an awe inspiring cave actually forming a hollow over the water within swimming range. In addition, we had a couple awe inspiring days of scootering ...