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Lazy Days
The journey from Krabi to Ko Tao was once of the most convoluted we have had since we started travelling. We weren't going very far, but it seemed to take for ever and involved a ridiculous amount of faffing and waiting around, if you can do it by public transport that must be better than the private operators who were a joke, shepherding us to …
Hot dogs and hot pans!
Sun!! Much better....that's one of the reasons we came to Thailand!
Breakfast, then Val rounded up a couple of sunbeds by the pool, but soon had to be moved out of the sun to some shade beneath a fir tree on the beach. The weather was perfect... a light breeze and occasional sun....just right!
I returned to our room to change, On my way …
Landing On Our Feet In Koh Lanta
Another day, another island.
Today we catch the boat to a nearby island called Koh Lanta and Lonely Planet says it is cool so we thought we would take a look. It's off season so we don't expect it to be busy and we should arrive about lunch time. With this in mind we decide to just wing it and so don't arrange any accomodation in advance, we just strap on our still FAR too heavy bags and head for the pier. A good choice as ...
Bye bye Phi Phi, hello Railay (Rai-leh)
... Apparently these power cuts are a common occurrence here (we knew this before we came). Ironically the power came back on just as I was pulling on my shorts (and went off ten minutes later).
For dinner we went to the east beach, Diamond Resort for BBQ kebab and Thai buffet. Whats more it was here that we bumped into Cerys's next door neighbour Leah and Tom Williams an old pal (well he's now 22) from football. It was bizarre as only a few nights Ago we spoke ...
Koh Lanta - our 24-hour adventure
... be leaving asap.
Kate totally agreed. She left for a nearby hotel with wi-fi to look for a place to stay on Koh Phi Phi, while I took a motorbike and set off to view the other beaches on the island. Apart from a little yoga hide away, all the beaches were filthy. The whole island looked like it never acted after the tsunami. Everything is half built and just squalor everywhere. Oh, and the young Austrian
referred to the male "owner" of the bungalows as ...