Sabai Beach Resort Surat Thani

... bowls outside so you lather up with soap and scoop yourself clean. The water was very cold; unfortunately men and women stay in separate dorms so i didn’t have my lovely girlfriend there to heat it up for me, lol. In the evening, after tea time, we were given time to hit up the hot springs. The monastery is smack dab in the middle of nature; several natural hot springs are found there. The men and women use different hot springs; the men have 2 to choose from. The first day I went ...

... marching back and forth in
perfect formation along rocks and branches. Dean decided to remove
the very sweaty T-shirt, boots and....strange large brown wormy thing
attached to the outside of his walking socks, inside his boot. As
soon as he pulled it, he realised it had it's teeth sunk into his
ankle, damn leech! As soon as it came off, the ankle just kept
bleeding and bleeding. Dave had one the other day after our other
jungle walk, so Dean knew it would be bleeding ...

... The seats folded into surprisingly comfortable beds though and after a few beers bought from the beer sales agents walking up and down the corridor, the rickety old fans started to look amusing and we forgot about air con or double beds. The countryside passed by with people waving at us and it was all turning out to be a great experience, for sure to be remembered forever! Les parents went to bed and we decided to explore the rumoured "clubwagon ...

... not block out the senseless. Despite the distractions seven hours passes remarkably quickly. Too quickly. We find ourselves in a desolate bus park in Surat Thani with 3 hours to spare waiting for our ferry. Liza has flu like cold symptoms and feels ****. Now a Spaniard takes over the talk loud baton and I want to kill him. Next time I get offered xanax I will bite the chemists hand off.

... between naps about missing my stop, since there were no announcements. At around 5 am, we were woken up by someone when we arrived ....whew. At Surat Thani, Russel, myself and a huge and I mean huge overexcited cockroach enjoyed breakfast and waited for the local bus to Khao Lak. We bought our bus ticket from a strange women who seemed to just appear out of ...

... im ****** about this and say no. after 20 minuets the guys comes back and says " just tell them that you already paid and get on the bus" i say cool and jump on this bus. there are a total of 11 seats on this bus, but we manage to fit 13 people with everyones backpacks into this clown car .. mind you its also a tree hour ride (not a three hour tour) - so what ever, after that ride we stop somewhere outside of Krabi. We are then told its 150 ...

... would start at 7:30 with another ringing of the big bell. This would include a siiting meditation, a group walking meditation and would finish off with yup. another sitting meditation. I'll be honest, this was always the toughest part of the day for me and my heart was usually not into the meditation at all. the walking was fine for me, but during the sitting, I would just let my mind wander. Or, I'm ashamed to admit, there were days I would actually gets frustrated and just ...

... taxi instead of the pickup truck for 120 baht, which took us straight there anyway. Our friend from the station was on reception, so it turned out he was legit anyway. We stayed the night in what was a very clean room with aircon, ensuite bathroom and a few bits of furniture. In the morning we headed out on the bus to the ferry pier to go to Koh Samui.

... wanted to get off the things as soon as possible! The train tracks border, numerous houses and run through many back and front yards, impossibly close. Passing by the humpies reminded me of a caravan park - although less organised. Structures popped up wherever there was room, often in little groups. Families sitting down to their evening meal looked out from underneath their porch at the passing train. People waited beside the tracks, within touching distance, for the ...