Sabai Beach Resort Surat Thani

... silence, no speaking during the duration of the retreat. The only exceptions are when everyone recites a food reflection before eating, during chanting or if someone has an issue they would like to talk to a nun or monk about. Secondly, 2 meals a day, one at 8:00am and the last at 12:30pm. No eating in the afternoon, evening and night, although we could have tea in the evening. Water consumption was allowed all day. The other rules are fairly obvious, no alcohol, no sex, no smoking etc ...

... gutted we missed them. The four of us stayed up<br>drinking, discovered a huge frog in the toilets and eventually found<br>our way back to our treehouse via torchlight at around 1am &#8211; long<br>day trekking through the rain forest tomorrow, need to be awake to<br>run away from Dinosaurs! <br><br>After a good night sleep, Michelle<br>dragged Dean out of bed to go down for breakfast before our day of<br>jungle trekking. At 9am, our guide collected us, handed us our<br>packed ...

... such a nice destination in which to do nothing but enjoy the sun, sand and sea... ahhh... We had a couple of mad nights out, but mainly spent the time relaxing and enjoying being in the sunshine.. The end of our 2 weeks and we are back in Pattaya... i will stay here now until July when i will move to samui to work... so hopefully the next 2 months will have a few more sight seeing trips for me to enjoy and tell you about... Speak to you all soon... loadsa love xx

... going through the motions. A couple of years ago the Thai government shot 2,000 "drug dealers" (later blaming it on vigilantes). So stop and search isn't really necessary here anymore. "Shoot and scare the **** out of" is a far more effective policy. The party is over. The party is now about falling over. We walked onto the beach innocently, incongruously, highly visibly the only two people clutching bottles of water. Everyone else had "buckets!" If the beach ...

... and the company of these marine creatures is a blissful experience.The return journey was uneventful and we retired in our room. 29 May 08- An Adventure in Hilarity- Kayaking!! I got up earlier than usual at 3.45 AM ! Later after breakfast, we waited for the pickup and watched a grouup of 30 odd Chinese toursits who descended into the restaurant for breakfast noisily.. Today, we hwere to kayak at Ao Thalene. The forty min drive through thick foliage of rubber ...

Well its 5pm on Tuesday the 22nd January and we are still on Koh Samui. The heat here is ferocious and must easily hit 35 degrees during the day! You really dont want to mess about getting burnt in the sun here - but depite wearing Factor 50 on my face and Factor 30 on my bod, Ive still ended up with a blister the size of a 10p piece on the end of my nose - much to my horror and Andys amusement! Probably due to the intense heat and the ...

... point to see and hear the speaker and observe the monks who would sit on low wooden tables at the front of the hall. We sat on the ground, on cushions on top of burlap sacks, to protect from the sandy ground. I also became used to using a small wooden bench to sit on which allowed your feet to slide comfortably underneath you. It did help me sit up strait but did not help with my tailbone issue. This sandbox of a meditation hall proved to be quite the challenge, as most ...

We spent another 3 days on Ko Phi Phi relaxing. Niki got her hair trimmed or at least that's what she wanted! She also got a traditional Thai massage and Darren spent a couple of hours playing on play stations in a local bar. We then caught a ferry back to the Thai mainland in Krabi. From there we took a bus, which was quite good considering, to the other side of southern ...