Rungtawan Hotel Surat Thani

... okkur alla leid ad landamaerum, borgudum 50 ringit i stad 5 eda 10 sem hefdi kostad ad taka rutu (en taer voru ekki a fostum tima tannig ad vid vildum ekki taka sensinn med tad)

Turftum svo ad skipta um taxa a bilaplani tvi hann matti greinilega bara taka okkur ad landamaerum i gegnum alla verdina, tar nadu teir 5 ringit i vidbot (snillingar ad bua til adstaedur tar sem verdure ad borga 1-5 ringit fyrir hitt og tetta)

Komum i tollinn, (eg ...

At Khao Sok we got a double room with hot shower and fantastic views for just 200B (4GBP). The lady who ran the place was great but the other staff did manage to get everyones laundry mixed up and we had to go through it to find which stuff was ours. Nick ended up ...

... it--as I sometimes do when traveling--as I have a lot of coconut and plenty of rice and noodles and other yummy delectibles. I enjoy traveling somewhere that I can let my days be filled with choices of what morsels to sample. Thailand is particularly good at this at the markets where I can take a tit and a tat for about $.30 each. I have also seen some amazing sunrises and sunsets on my travels. As I write this I am highly aware that this is ...

... bus. Across the way in the other direction was a second, much larger pier... the real pier. Here we found the real ferry, not the 50% chance it's made-up ferry, and bought our thru fares to the Phun Phin/Surat Thani rail depot. Unfortunately they'd stopped selling tickets for the 3pm boat, departing any minute and we'd have to wait an hour for the next one. We took turns watching the bags and running off on food errands to pass the time. I ...

... Thai word (sooai, meaning pretty, in regards to the picture she held in her lap). I had never said the word outloud to anyone before, just remembered learning it, but she was able to understand and respond! Fantastic. Right now I have about 30 words/phrases in my head but am behind on my 1-per-day goal. It turned out that Simon, Magdalena, Barbara, Liz and I were not only on the same 2 buses, but also on the same overnight ...

... up and taken to my accommodation in Sairee Village about 10 mins away from the pier. Just chilled out the first day having a potter around the shops and sitting on the beach. doing laundry etc. Next day I started my course which involved watching 2 videos for our course and then having to read Chapters 1 and 2 of our PADI manual in preparation for the following day where we would meet our instructor. There was only myself and another English boy (19 ...

... candles flickering away in the night, each bar separated by fire topped pillars and fairy lights entwining the palm trees that stretch all the way down the bay. Its an amazing sight and on Saturday night, Andy and I had a fab meal at a restaurant called Gecko where they barbecued my meal (Red Snapper fish of course!) and prepared Andys curry on the beach and we sat contentedly eating at a table on the sand with the warm sea lapping round ...

... Then it's monkey temple time. Our driver has purchased bags of some kind of pork-rindy snack for the little fellers and gives us plenty of time to play with Macaque. (We would politely ask that commenters refrain from tagging this very delicately phrased pun. Thank you, steve_julie Blog Management.) Next dinner and a guided night jungle trek into Khao Sok's National Rain Forest Park. Though we do see a Slow ...

... this particularly well by spotting a python sleeping, coiled up in the branches of a tree around 8m up, which was pretty cool, until he decides we need a closer look... So he shakes the tree until this snake falls off into the river, then dives in and chases after it, catches it by the tail and brings it back to show us! It wasn't huge, a bit over 1m, but big enough. He managed to get hold off its head by pining it down with the blade of his machete and ...

... we couldn't help but notice the refeshing looking pool. We just looked at each other and grabbed our swimming stuff. Getting to the pool involved running the gauntlet of Malaysian tourists. We arrived on the 3rd floor and got the shock of our lives as the doors opened and about 50 people descended on us, grinning manically. They were trying to go down and would ...