Princess Resort Koh Chang Hotel Ko Chang

... me....after Sihanoukville we hung out at Koh Kong where we took a boat out to an island with a beautiful lagoon, visited a mangrove forest and I got slightly good at playing pool (I've actually beat Nick once or twice....but only when he was playing rubbish!)....and now we've crossed the boarder and are back into Thailand.....and we've forgotten all our Thai! Well I have to go because hanging in an internet cafe is not a great night out for Nick on his birthday! Lot of love!

... and baby powder by about nine different people. It's all a bit of harmless fun and the Thai people are usually very well mannered about it. It's a traditional cleansing ceremony to wash away the old year and welcome the new, but when you're on your way out for a bite to eat in your dry clothes and there's a bunch of drunken 'farang' (foreigners) aiming high powered water pistols at you it gets a bit too much after a couple of days. You end up arriving at your destination ...

... s will not go again until the morning. Lek tells us to sit and gives us a bottle of ice cold water. "I make phone call, I fix something," he tells us. Less than 5 minutes later, a skinny Thai man with long hair comes up on to the wooden platform that forms the restaurant and lounging area. We have sprawled out on the mats already cooler in the shade and refreshed by the water. "My friend, he take yew (Lek pointed at Roger) to see a Viwa - not too expensife," Lek tells Roger ...

... the wind picks up a little which means putting on a hoodie AND long trousers but at least it blows the mosquitoes away. There are 3 restaurants to choose from including our place and its comparatively slightly cheaper than Koh Chang! Plenty of fresh fish, shrimps and squid on offer. Not one bad meal was had in our 5 nights stay here. Sadly the calm waters only lasted about 2 days then the wind kicked up making the water choppy and no ...

... Bangkok es la jungla feta ciutat, on els homes mandregen aplatanats a dins d un tuc-tuc de llauna, en comptes de jaure a la branca d un bon arbre. Anem a una illa, de retirtada, passant pel pais que no es veu, el fat tailandes. Un estrany mecanisme del cervell tanca les vies de registre i es mante en posicio funcional-reflexiva, fins que tot plegat comenci a assemblar se al que havia imaginat. Un escenari final. Els ultims dies hem respirat a 10.000 metres per sobre i ...

... to this place to enjoy. Most Thais are early birds, getting up early and going to sleep also early. When we went for a dinner, we had to wait for vacancy, all tables were taken by Thais, but as the night was approaching, foreigners started to replace them. Sunset in Thailand is all year long between 6-7pm, so I assume people just wanted to use as much daylight as possible, probably that is a reason for early beginning of the day.

... Til gengaeld tog hun med os tilbage for at vise os hvordan man gjode det paa den sikreste maade, og saa kom vi endeligt ind til vandfaldet. Det var helt sikkert klatreturen vaerd. Samtidig var det lidt sjovt at hun tog sin tamme abe med paa turen for at den kunne faa sig et tiltraengt bad. Jeg har aldrig foer set en abe svoemme, men den her lod til at nyde det. Lige indtil vi kom taet paa vandfaldet, det kunne den bestemt ikke li'. Og den shampoo hun brugte til at vaske den var den ...

... upon it's return. In the blazing moring heat, the next hour was spent walking up and down, up and down, up and down a long dusty road trying to find a cheaper bus ticket. In the end, we succeded, but a 100 Bhat reduction didn't make the effort worthwile. They told me they were going to a little town called Trat, I figured I may as well go with them. What else was there to do? The mini bus journey was a bit of a strange one. There were 9 of us in ...

... cool water to bathe yourself in. To bathe, you do not actually enter the pool of water, but use a small plastic bucket to scoop water out and pour it over yourself. The restaurant portion of the establishment was absolutely amazing. The menu extended from simple milk and cereal for breakfast to perfectly grilled red snapper and veggies for dinner. I must have ordered three fruit smoothies per day, and eaten ten pounds of grilled red snapper and squid by the ...

... to be the first to reach the most prized (i.e. cheapest) accommodation jostled for pole position. The western coast of Ko Chang, it is said, is experiencing a boom in visitor numbers and enterprisers are having difficulty building enough beach huts and rigging up sound systems quick enough. But we wanted to spend some time relaxing away from the 21st century and had hopefully picked out a distant beach at the end of the south-eastern peninsula where we knew that accommodation could ...