Somewhere different in Thailand

We could only stay in Thailand for 30 days at a time, so we decided to head down to Ko Li Pe, which is an island off the south west coast of Thailand, for a few days before getting a ferry over the border to Langkawi in Malaysia, to spent a month going round Malaysia, as we didn't get to see much of it last time. We left Koh Phanang on the night boat, which was very comfortable and arrived in Suratthani at around 6am. After hanging around until about 8.30am we left on a mini bus to Haat Yai, which took about 5 hours. Haat Yai, is a bit of a stop off town for people going to and coming from Malaysia. We decided to stay the night to break up the journey to Ko Li Pe and had a wander around town, checking out the malls and catching up on emails. We met a guy in our hostel, Chris and went for a few drinks with him and had some food in Chinatown before calling it a night. We were up to get the minibus at 8.30am which took 2 hours to the port to catch the ferry to Ko Li Pe. After an hour on the ferry, we reached Ko Li Pe and it looked lovely. Beautiful clear blue waters and no cars on the tiny island. We got talking to a German girl, Pia and the 3 of us went looking for somewhere to stay. We spent the first 2 nights in the Andaman Resort, which was ok, in a rundown shack kind of way, but after that we moved to Pooh's Resort which was much nicer with solid walls and an outside bathroom. The next few days were spent lazing around and snorkelling. We were going to go on a day trip but we found a tiny tiny island 10 minutes swim from the shore that was surrounded by amazing coral and great fish. We saw dozens of clownfish, triggers, puffer fish and Elliot even saw a shark. After 5 days of lazing around it was time to head to Malaysia.

Sunset