Samui Mountain Village
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And relax...
5th November 2012
Location: Ko Samui
Yesterday we completed our last part of the PADI course. We were ready to dive by seven and sitting on the beach waiting for the boat when it started to pour with rain. Obviously it made no difference to us as we would be under the water but sitting waiting for a boat while it rains isn't much fun!
Once we got on our little taxi boat and boarded the main diving boat we got ushered upstairs and ...
Mai Pen Rai
... it is sight you must see. We plan to hit this up tomorrow. While chatting with them over our first meal there (Pad Thai and Fried Vegetables in Oyster Sauce), they shared their philosophy on life which seems to be an attitude of many locals around here: "Life is meant to be enjoyed, no worries, mai pen rai." They work their restaurant/bar by day, sleep in hammocks on the beach by night (or share a tent if a storm is brewing), and are some ...
Up on a Mountain and under the Sea
... cut-through to our side of the island and the scout Jack, who trusts map more than anything was determined to find this shortcut. I believed less and less in it's existence the higher we walked up the mountain, there were no more people, the path got smaller and smaller and we were entering the jungle. I was still hoping that Jack would find it because my knee had started giving me grief and the rain had become worse, so I ...
Last days at the seaside and first travel comments
... to Infinita whom I will certainly miss.
Tomorrow morning I will take a taxi to the port of Koh Samui fro where I will reach Surat Thani around 5 p.m. after two hours and a half of sailing by boat.
The next morning at 8.30 am I will take the flight that will take me to Bangkok for the last week of vacation.
So today is the last day of the sea, after spending around seventy days along thirty beaches, belonging mainly to the Philippine Islands and ...
Koh Samui
... and a couple of cabaret with the spectacle of drag queens who are out to bring the spectators in.
There was one also at Koh Lanta but I came out after 2 minutes because with respect, these characters seem pathetic.
Last night, waiting for my midnight birthday I enjoyed dancing at Akbar, a great beach bar crowded even during the day with foam mattresses for clients facing the shoreline. ...
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