Chada Ko Lanta

... restaurants, and beach bars dotting the crescent moon shaped bay. Similar to Had Phra Ae or Had Long Beach, this spot is a good alternative choice for a family.


If you prefer a quieter place, Had Klong Kong and Had Klong Nin are good options, as the coconut groves provide nice shade and serenity. Beautiful rock boulders make a ...

... just what you would imagine paradise to be like, and
it was all ours.....apart from a boat full of Yanks that were on the
same island for a short while. On the way back, we visited some guy
who had a few monkeys in his garden. A baby one crawled all over
Dean, covering him in dirty paw prints. We were back at the hotel by
4 and this time it was all to us. Quite possibly the only tourists
in a 10 mile radius surrounded by ocean.

... s birthday.... read our books by the pool, enjoyed the aircon and satellite tv movies in our room... and rented a scooter. Headed down the road a ways and ordered a pizza.... and played a round of mini golf while we waited for it! It was a pretty funny mini golf... lots of what seemed to me to be impossible holes..... Luc got most of the difficult ones like the one where teh ball had to go upside down around a loop. Anyways, that ...

... to have a massage- I think he thought they were all ladyboys! In the afternoon we went to check out the Relax Bay Resort, which we had booked for the rest of our Ko Lanta stay. The resort was not on the same beach, so we had to walk roadside and it was on a bit of a hill. We weren't all that impressed and it seemed a bit out of the way, so we decided not to check in there after all. That night we found a solution to our problem. We ate out at a restaurant on the beach ...

... room. Alan lay down for a while and I went to get my hour long Royal Malay massage. It was amazing!!! The only thing is it's sort of in the open and I had to strip to my underwear before lying down on the bed and being covered by the towel. God help anyone who was unfortunate enough to see that sight! When I got back to our room Alan was in bed and feeling pretty awful. He didn't want any dinner so I just ordered room service and sat in the living area watching films and drinking ...

... she had in her hands. We were actually dropped off near Monkey Beach and had a chance to snorkel in the waters near it. We saw some really exotic fish with some brilliant colors. Blues, yellows, oranges, etc. We also saw abalone, sea urchins, eels, etc. One of the fish loved bananas. We fed these fish bananas. I don't know their name, but they must have gotten that habit from the monkeys at Monkey Beach - we'll call those fish Monkey Fish. Only fitting, right? Interestingly, I ...

... trying to bargain with a man for goods that became angry with her and told her to go. She left but also purposefully knocked items off his table while walking away. In response he attacked her from behind with some blunt object knocking her unconscious. Apparently she suffered from antrograde amnesia for the next 10 hours waking up in a different part of Bangkok with no money and no recollection of what had happened. Eventually a Canadian back packer gave her cab money so ...

We'll skip over the specifics of a very long set of mini-van rides through the very forgettable town of Hat Yai as well as a fogettable evil van driver who drove the second half of the journey. Suffice to say, we arrived at our psuedo-destination of Krabi in Thailand with only discomfort and a mild first world vs third world incident due to the incalcitrance of the aforementioned driver who on top of making us climb up the side of the van to get our bags off the top of ...

... analysed, we went for it. And good thing too! Welcome to Thailand... We took a boat to Satun, Thailand, fom the island of Langkawi, Malaysia. Once we docked, we went up to the window to get our 30 day visa on arrival. I have to admit, I can be a "worry wart" and I was stressed out a bit that we didnt have an ongoing ticket. Well, we reached the window, they smiled, they stamped our passports and showed us the "exit". We took the exit and we were officially in ...