Arrive in Koh Mak

Trip Start Sep 05, 2008
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Friday, November 21, 2008

When we went to bed last night we weren't decided if we'd hang around Koh Chang for a few days, or head to Koh Mak in the morning as originally intended - the boat over to Koh Mak was going to be much more expensive than we'd anticipated and we weren't sure that it was worth it. Our rodent friend had made our minds up for us pretty swiftly.

The early boat had already gone when we arrived at the ticket office, so the only boat left for us to catch was the 11am speedboat. Annie isn't a big fan of speedboats following an incident in the past. But Catherine isn't a big fan of rats, and so Annie decided it was for the greater good.

The boat left pretty much bang on time. It held about twenty people, we sat at the very front. It reached some pretty impressive speeds during the course of the rocky journey as the nose of the boat, where we were sitting, lifter up and crashed down on the water with every wave. One hour later we arrived on Koh Mak.

We hadn't reserved accommodation, but had been told of a place with some free rooms, and so we headed there. Koh Mak is a tiny island, about 5km across, with only one or two roads throughout. We arrived at the Cococape resort and, having eyed pretty much every free room in the place, settled on a two-storey wooden hut, built on stilts on the hills overlooking the bay.

This place is decent. They have what in modern parlance is termed a split-level infinity pool. They also have a bay of calm, clear, warm sea, and a reasonable bar and restaurant. And the whole place is so friendly and so laid back. It's not a big, maybe twenty or twenty-five rooms in all, but there's so much space that it's almost like you've got the place to yourself.

I'm not really one for this type of holiday. I find it difficult lying around doing nothing, but it's about 30℃ at present and the sun's out, and when it's about 4℃ in a thick drizzle under a pea-soup fog at home I'd best not complain about being here or I'm likely to get lynched when I get back. Anyway, after all this travelling it's pretty nice to do nothing for a while.
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