Beautiful Koh Lanta

Trip Start Mar 02, 2008
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Monday, March 10, 2008

Koh Lanta is slightly larger than Koh Phi Phi & seemed a bit less commercial. We found this very charming, although at times, a little dangerous. Take for example, the roads. Or rather dirt tracks! They have proper motor vehicles here but I don't think they have any set rules! We saw whole families on motorbikes! One family even had their dog on there! So that's like, 4 people & a dog on 1 little bike! Seriously!
The Tuk tuks were slightly different too & (unlike bangkok where they have proper cars) were the main type of taxi service. They were like little motor scooters with side cars on & they'll just fit as many people as are there on & charge you individually! There were 5 of us in one one night! The driver had to get us to walk to the top of a hill at one point as the bike wasn't powerful enough to get 5 girls & the driver up there! On the last night, my friend & I found a business class Tuk Tuk! They all have their own individual selling points! There was a disco one too that played music & had flashing lights as we were going along the road! It's little things like that that make the night more interesting.

We stayed near long beach when we arrived at Ko Lanta, our choice was kind of made by the numerous people on the boat trying to get us to stay in their accommodation! Well, we didn't know any different so we chose one that was near a beach. Actually, it was practically on the beach, the accommodation wasn't that nice & we moved the next day but the beach was beautiful, huge, unspoilt & not very busy. Amazing!
The food on Ko Lanta was also very good & there seemed to be alot more choice than the other places in Thailand that we'd visited, without being too English! There were some lovely beach bars too which did lovely cocktails & had big cushions to lie on while we watched the beautiful sunset.

The next day, I had a very early start as I'd decided to go diving with my friend. We left Saladan at 7.30am so that meant getting up at 6! It was well worth it though as it was such an amazing day! The boat was nice, the weather was good & the diving location was like paradise! Clear blue (fairly warm) water, beautiful picturesque rocks & lots of colourful fish. We saw lion fish, box fish, eels & all manner of amazing underwater creatures! It was amazing but tiring. We fell asleep on the sun deck on the way back so even managed to top up our tans too!

The next day we spent at the beach as we had to leave the next day. I was very sad to have to leave such an amazing place
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