Amandara Island Resort
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We have been expecting you Mr Bond
... with lots of individual jetties along the road. Whilst seemingly deserted a man randomly appeared in the middle of the road offering long tail trips around James bond Island, Khao Khian Cave, Koh Panyi (floating village) Khao Pingkan (Sheered rock) The deal was done & with the man insisting "You Pay Me Now" which we duly did, minutes later we were jumping into a long tail which was big enough for about 10 people but just for the two of us and we were ...
Days 4, 5, 6: Busy 3 Days!
... ya, right. We were there for 4 hours, doing everything from weight lifting to running to spin class to Zumba, and I was seriously about to fall over at the end. We had lunch at the cafe which serves only locally grown organic food from Klaus's farm called Thanyamundra (www.thanyamundra.com), which is 2 hours north of Phuket in Khao Sok National Park, where we are tonight.
After lunch we drove up to this organic resort, which literally looks like its located in ...
Balmy days at Bang Niang beach
... to the Tsunami. Amazingly only one of the crew of ten on the boat was killed. At the site there are lots of gruesome statistics and photographs of the tsunami as well as locally made handicrafts offered for sale by people who lost their homes and livelihoods. In the UK the media coverage seemed to focus on Phuket where there were many European tourists on holiday. In fact 279 people lost their lives in Phuket whilst the death toll here ...
Heaven 'n Hell
... last and was bits of meat stick ****. Not happy, paid and left. Back at the hotel we asked if the receptionist could book us the half day James Bond tour tomorrow. She said the tour place was closed but would wake us in the morning if she could sort it. This was our own fault for not booking it sooner. Seeing these smaller more authentic towns is good but you get stared at, honked at and generally younger Thai's make comments in their language. Pros and cons I ...
What did you do today?
... nice lunch of noodle soup. We went on an elephant trek through the jungle. We fed the elephant pineapples. We came home. We relaxed. Sure beats sitting at a desk.
Tomorrow we have a trip booked to Chieow Lake. The day after that we depart for Krabi and Koh Phi Phi.
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- Room service
- Restaurant
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