As soon as I got in Ko Lanta I felt better, it is just ridiculously chilled there. Its mainly shabby jungle patches and you arrive into the fishing port of loads of restaurants over the sea. It is quite beautiful. Luckily the girls had already gone over to get a room and I was travelling with this Irish guy called Brendan so we literally met a guy off the boat to pick us up and then I think I pased out for about 6hours. The room between three was 100 baht each which is 2quid and it was this beautiful bungalow [View Full Entry]

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Ko Lanta The journey from Railey took 3 hours on a boat. Whilst on the boat Dean, Sam & I enjoyed a Chang or 2, where we also booked our accommodation with a crazy, yet pleasant Thai woman for the Green Garden Beach resort, Klong Khong beach - which proved to be a sensible move as it saved us a lot of time, hassle & money. As at most piers, there is always an element of chaos & madness as new travellers disembark on the island. This was no exception. Something we hadn’t yet experienced however was docking beside 3 other [View Full Entry]

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Hi Everyone, Secluded as I am here on Koh Lanta, it would be very easy to believe the world doesn't exist beyond this small bay. Life crawls along at snails pace, and as there isn't a lot of people around, noise and activity is at a minimum. Everything seems to take "10 minutes", which is really code for 30 minutes. It doesn't seem to matter what it is... a drink, food, new towels, someone to put up the pool umbrella, the answer is always the same, "10 minutes mam", and then it takes 30 minutes!! Most people here seem to be [View Full Entry]

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Hi Everyone Well here I am on the island of Koh Lanta in Southern Thailand, and if Sapa was a piece of Heaven, this place is a piece of Paradise. It's so laid back here that if it were any more so, you would be comotosed!! I left Hanoi on Friday morning, and flew to Bangkok, then got a connecting flight to Krabi in Southern Thailand. I had been a bit worried that I may miss the connecting flight as I only had 1 hour between flights, but the airline Buddha was clearly on my side, and everything went to plan. [View Full Entry]

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So today I find out that I can't get back to Krabi from Ko Lanta in the same day as I arrive on Ko Lanta at 1pm & the last return is at 2pm (now who thought that schedule was a good idea!?) Having already paid for my ticket, I decide to go anyway as I'd heard many good things about the island. The journey there involved a lot of waiting around as we transferred from minibus to minibus, altogether it took around 3 hours which wasn't too bad. I got talking with an 18 year old couple who I've ended [View Full Entry]

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We flew from chiang Mai to Krabi on Monday with a stop in Bangkok. We stayed one night in krabi, checking out the night market and some coastside walking. We found more great cheap food, which has been easy to do on this trip. For dinner we had pad Thai with shrimp, stir fry morning glory with rice, BBQ tofu skewer, BBQ shrimp skewer, and large bottled water. For breakfast we had an omlette, fruit plate, toast, and 2 coffee's. Grand total for both meals? $6.60. We took a van from Krabi to koh lanta needing two car ferry's to reach [View Full Entry]

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Friday 29th of May, 2009 We flew in to Hong Kong on the date up above the page. There was nothing else to eat because everything was shut down and so we ate Mcdonalds. It was the worst food we’ve ever had. We went to bed Saturday 30th of May, 2009 Today we went to the lady market and there was at least twenty shoe shops of nike shoes. Remi wanted to get a pair of Nike Sb so we tried to find the kind he wanted but we couldn’t find them. I bought a pair of checkers going out shoes, [View Full Entry]

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Sawadee Kaaaaa - the duration of hello here seems to get longer, depending on the pace of life. Now that we're on Ko Lanta, the pace is decidedly slow and the greetings can go on for minutes at a time. So as I was writing this, I realised that I have no idea what the day or date is - now we're cooking with fish sauce! One week in and we really feel like we're on holidays. The rest of our time in Phi Phi was spent doing the usual, trying to eat as much food as possible, drink much beer, [View Full Entry]

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The day we were due to leave was the last day of business for the Baan Phu Lae before the impending monsoon season shuts down most of the Island. They decided to throw a party as a thank you to the guests. They did a BBQ, a buffet and they made a punch which everyone got a free pint of. In the first few sips I could detect vodka, rum, and malibu before I gave up trying to count and just drank it because it was free. Then after everyone had eaten, a few of the staff put on a kind [View Full Entry]

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Our short stop over in Bangkok came to an end and we caught an overnight train to Trang on Thailand’s Andaman Coast. The trains in Thailand are great especially the sleeper variety, you get an attendant who comes and makes up your bed and a waitress fetches a steady flow of food and drink to save you the hassle of walking to the buffet car. The train departed 3 hrs later than scheduled so our KFC meal was well and truly eaten before we even left the platform. It was pouring with rain when we left Bangkok and the thunder was [View Full Entry]

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