Beaches and Sunsets and Creatures of the Night

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Island hopping is making us get through our time here. We've spent more time at beach resorts than planned but you know, it's kinda nice.

Crossing the border into Thailand from Cambodia was straight forward and took only moments. Like any border town on the Thai side it was a bustle with activity but there was only one very expensive mini-van into the closest city of Trat from which we headed to an island known as Koh Chang (Koh menas island and chang is elephant) as the island (after a few beer) looks like the shape of an elephant.

It took us all day to get here and to say the least, compared to Cambodia beach resorts, this was heaven ... but very very expensive ... but so so worth it. We stayed in two areas, the first: White Sands Beach and the other Lonely Beach. The beaches were amazing.Loneley Beach was more remote and off the beaten path and as you walked along the small narrow winding road, wild monkeys chattering at you from the jungle above ... and the hydro lines. of course Moneleys weren't the only cretures we encountered ... late one night while in bed in a bamboo hut at the edge of the jungle we heard a horrible terrible large huge animal sound right at our door ... no I wasn't going to open the door ... until I was sure it was gone ... and it was. Then a short while later it returned then disappeared then returned and to say the least, it was not easy getting back to sleep. The next morning we learned that it was Gecko ... a large Gecko, a very large Gecko, did I mention it was probably large and the sound was a mating call .. but we were not answering

Nuff said, the pictures are worth a thousand words ...

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