Wattana Park Hotel Trang

... time we began to wish we hadn't been so practical and made sandwiches. We did treat ourselves to a Dim Dim....which started off as coconut ice-cream in a plastic cup but as we ate the Ice-cream we found a layer of bread and then a layer of rice....very odd!!!

The journey didn't seam to take too long, we did have a problem shutting the very large window so spend most of the after dark journey being bombarded with bugs ...

... gave a tip to our guide who was on the back of the boat and the other guy who sailed in the front. Then we were taken to see the shop which sells the famous wood of this district. It was called “Theb tari” wood. It said that it could propel an insect, give a fragrance and give some luck. I didn’t buy anything from this shop but it seemed that a number of purchases were made from the group of us.

Then we were taken to have lunch and to the ...

... Then Deb and I hopped in the boat. She is brilliant in her reasoning - really, let them TRY to get us off of here. They either take our money or everyone waits. Plus, six other Thais were already on the boat. So the dance began. First boat driver... I kept explaining in very broken Thai about being Thai teacher, knowing Thai prices, yada, yada, yada. He kept insisting but had no english so quickly got frustrated. Then a random tough ...

... The song would end and she would go back to the circle and do it all over again. If he had multiple tickets he could keep the one girl or trade her in for a new one. The rest of the village stood around watching and eating food the older women were selling. No alcohol could be seen but it was obvious that many of the men were drunk and many of the younger ones really stoned. (Lots of drugs everywhere here - weed, opium and kaba? - new one on me) If all of this ...

... today....blar....blar" We don't listen to that old nonsense anymore we've heard it all before. Once at the bus station we had to wait just 20 minutes for a nice big new ish bus to take us to Trang about 2 hours away. As we had stayed in Trang before the town lay out was familiar to us. We stayed in a nice little place right by the train station called My Friend. In the morning we had free tea/coffee and biscuits before we headed off on the next leg of our mission ...

... gibt es keine Starßen, zwei Strände und ich glaube 5 Resorts - und sonst nur Urwald. Alles wird mit ...

... 12 quid!) Or it was 750 baht (15 quid) with breakfast. On check-in we were given the breakfast vouchers anyway and for 12 quid a night we weren't going to advise them of their mistake and give them back now were we?? The breakfast was certainly nothing to write home about and by the end of day 2 we had found (situated right next door to Scanky Resort) a lovely newly built bamboo bungalow (at Varin Beach Resort 2) right on the beach with a ...

... bajecznie. Przyjemne chatki, klimatyczna restauracja, wszedzie dokola palmy kokosowe i oczywiscie piekna plaza. Nie zabraklo rowniez baru z genialna muzyka. Zrzucilismy bagaze, ubralismy stroje kapielowe i przebieglismy cale 30m dzielace nasz bungalow od morza. Potaplalismy sie troche a wieczorem poszlismy do wioski na zakupy, nalesnika i ryz z warzywami. Nabyty wtedy sok jablkowy spozylismy z zubrowka na plazy pod rozgwiezdzonym niebem :D jak w bajce...

... Dalsi na rade je Thajsko. Nocni vlak z Kuala Lumpur do Hat Yai byl pohodlny a docela dobre jsme se vyspali, i kdyz me se cestou zdalo o zemetreseni, asi jak to drncalo. Na hranicich se nic zvlastniho nestalo a do pasu jsem dostala razitko s povolenim k pobytu na 2 mesice, coz mi Nuno zavidel, protoze on dostal jenom 30 dni. Puvodne jsme se chteli z Hat Yai presunout do Trangu a tam stravit noc, ale nakonec slo vsechno nad nase ocekavani a pomoci nekolika minibusu jsme jeste ...

... is dead or something, but I just want to say that we have really enjoyed our 5 months in SE Asia, and we have gained a lot of respect for the different lifestyle people lead over here. Different, we have learned, can be good, bad, the best thing ever, or the most disgusting and repulsive experience of your life. In South East Asia, one minute you are marvelling at the beauty of the people or the landscape, and the next minute you are shaking ...