Ko Lak

Or: a half-year's peregrination across lands strange and exotic, recounting, in detail and with photographs, things both seen and done from the Orient onward to Occidental places, with especial emphasis on matters curious Or: South East Asia to Europe ...

One man's adventures on the road during a once-in-a-lifetime career break. I've rented the flat, quit the job and here I am spending my Porsche fund on the trip of a lifetime! Among my many plans, I hope to dive around the islands of Thailand, ...

Follow the adventures of Antony and Lindsey as they travel around Southeast Asia looking for excitement and affordable accommodation.

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Quit our jobs, counted our dollars, packed our bags and launched our first trip around the world. We left the corporate world behind, and hope to open our eyes and mind to the world beyond.

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I think there are Nazguls chasing me!!!

... with them lounging at their pool and getting relaxing Thai massages by the sea, as well as having a few drinks and dinner.  Ko Lak was a place which had been pretty badly hit by the tsunami, everywhere we seen signs indicating 'Tsunami zones' and ...

... it down with Pepsi and wishing it was Star Cola. After 2 hours of that we hopped on a local bus across the peninsula to Ko Lak, a seaside resort area on the Andaman Coast. We hopped off the bus at the road to Poseiden Bungalows, threw our packs on ...

... size of a crow called flying dogs, 3-4 different kind of crabs, rats and weird kind of frogs..... We relaxed... now we are in Ko Lak and are looking again on planning the next destination. we will take a bus to Krabi tomorrow. we will post pictures later ...

... up with adams parents in penang on the 23rd april. This was all top secret though, hence no updates for a while. From kao lak we had a 4 day liveaboard diving trip to the similan and surin islands in the andaman sea. We will update all the details on ...

... of the wave set. Therefore, the rollers ran up the beaches here from south to north, while at places like Ko Phi Phi and Khao Lak the waves hit the beaches straight on with devastating consequences.  Our choice for a guesthouse, at Bamboo Bay, ...

... ! On the 27th we had to move on to get to Khao Lak. We took the boat to Surat Thani where we got a bus ticket to Khao Lak - or so we thought. It turned out the local bus we'd been put on only went as far as Takua Pa, a small regional capital. Arriving ...

... more tourists than Ko Lipe, but less so than Phuket (which we visited in March 2007 as a stop over on-route to Kao Lak). Ko Phi Phi is fortunately vehicle free, luggage is transported by porters pushing wheeled carts and long-tail boats can be charted to ...

... !   The next day is a day of travel involving a few boats to Phuket and then a few hours by bus north to Khao Lak so we can go to the Surin Islands for a 3 day snorkelling/camping trip (armed with lashings of mozzie repellent of course!). ...

... 4 Naechte verbringen wir auf einem Boot in der Umgebung der Similan Inseln. Dort solls wunderschoen zum Tauchen sein... Insgesamt werden wir 14 Tauchgaenge machen. Da freuen wir uns schon sehr. Nach der Tauchtour landen wir dann in Kao Lak... Bis ...

... East towards the sultry little island of Koh Si Chang! As we had found the train so very cheap yesterday, we took it from Lak-Si to Hualamphong were we hurriedly made our way to the air conditioned subterranean bliss of the Bangkok subway. It was the best ...

After some struggle in the scorching heat with our 100 pound backpacks (I have been dumping things out along the way to lighten my load all of a sudden my bottle of conditioner is not so important anymore its just heavy) we searched for our guest ...