The Briza Beach Resort Khao Lak

Manta Queen 1 just came back today from the first great 4 day trip to the Similan islands. Bringing nice pic's and videos, will upload them soon.<br><br>Also I will soon move to my new office in Bang Niang in the Beach road, just waiting for the last Furnitures :-)<br>

... I was really surprised at how hard it is to be a vegetarian street food-wise in Thailand. After about two weeks of pad thai I was more than over it and was frustrated with all the meat on a stick bbq style options. So far it seems that pretty much every food sold out of a cart on the street or at the markets has some sort of meat base. Lame! Khao Lak is a really short strip of resort hotels right on the beach with one street with overpriced ...

... hit or miss. a funny story for you though....i was out on the boat for a 3 day trip last week and i had a group of 4 divers for those 3 days. 2 were an absolutely lovely aussie couple, one was a lone german 20 something and the 4th was a ****ing nightmare. the guy was mid to late 40's and french which isnt a sure sign of trouble but a good indicator. there were two problems....the first was that he was a horrible diver...had no control over his bouyoncy, his ...

... since I was bringing all my belongings with me. I have managed to obtain quite the collection of **** over the years but im not usually saddled down with the weight when im travelling because I can just leave a bunch of it on ko tao, especially the diving gear. This time though, everything was needed, included all my diving gears so i ended up with 3 very large and heavy bags and a camera case.....sigh. its funny, I am ...

... You can even hear it if you're close enough! One grey eel writhing on the sea floor. No octopus, unfortunately, but hundreds of species of brightly colored fish, iradescent live coral, and patterns of stationary corals and colony-forming organisms. Soem were periwinkle, as if under blacklights. LIght so many aquarium parks, friends' tanks, high quailty books and National Geographic magazines, swimming all around you. Looknig down on ...

... he threw his claws up in attack mode and backed away from us. We kept checking on him as we walked away because it was hysterical how anxious the encounter seemed to make him. 10 yards, 20 yards, 30 yards - and still he had his claws in the air watching us walk away. And later that night he got his revenge.... I woke up at about 3am with Tracy punching the floor of our tent. I thought maybe she was having a bad dream, so I tried to wake her up. She ...

... I can use now and then. Unfortunately one of the ****** things about traveling like this is having to sit and have a couple of cold beers in a sidewalk cafe or a pub and talk to other travelers from all over the world, day after day after day. It's hard. Anyway, it was a late night. Tomorrow I will book my cooking class and go shopping for glasses. (Good thing I wisely brought along a copy of my prescription.)

... middle. We're having mixed weather, a series of sunny days and overcast ones, it rained one night. The beach here is everything we had hoped for. The golden sand is soft as silk, the beaches are un-crowded, undeveloped and rustic. The ocean is calm and clean. The humidity is tolerable thanks to the offshore breeze that comes in every afternoon. A short walk down the beach ...

Its a 7am departure for the floating markets just 80mins out of Bangkok (300 bhats each). First stop is to see a sugar factory/farm. However in actual effect its a bit dissapointing, there are no information talks or billboards. One must go up to the workers and try to speak to them to get any information. This sound like it may be the best way but when they can't speak english.... However, there are many markets selling over-priced souvenirs. Sometimes so called westerners ...

... and awake, not an easy task. On day 2, I awoke to an old man outside my tent saying, "Falang, wake up, it's late already." 30 minutes later my phone rang to tell me it was 6:30am. We were supposed to start the day's activities at 8:30. At 7:00am the kids stormed my tent, and managed to breach the polyester wall that was my only protection against their onslaught. "Come play, come play!" They convinced me, and I made my way to breakfast. Oo was luckier; he slept in ...