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Taraporn Restaurant
this is the view from the little restaurant on stilts on the sea so after the madness of ko pha ngan it was off to ko tao for a much needed break. the taxi picked me up from right outside my bungalow to take me to the pier, which was sweet as it was an early boat and i was knackered! i spent the journey talking to a Canadian girl who quite handilly knew of a nice place to stay and after a 15 minute walk, sweatin with my oversized backpack, we got to sairee cottages which were nice even if the staff were extremely impersonal. i had expected to find a very laid back island with some dive operations and a few bars and restaurants but after a walk down sairee beach it seemed to be more like haad rin's slightly less tacky little brother with a string of bars and other tourist orientated places. i immediately decided that i had no chance of fulfilling my detox plan if i stayed around and looked for the first place to rent a scooter from and off i went. i spent a while exploring the island just seeing what i could see until i decided i needed some guidance and reached for my LP. i
Jansom Bay
Remember its 100b to swim was gettin hungry by this point and loooked to see if there were any nice places to eat in the area and came across what was supposedly a resataurant with the best location on the island that sat on stilts over the water. i zinged around the corner and parked up, walked over a concrete path on stilts with no barrier or handrail over the sea, to a little place with low level tables and cushions to sit on. i quite enjoy this style and wasnt bothered about sitting on the floor, but the location truely was the nuts. situated in a nice little bay where some locals were playin 5 aside, right out actually on the water i sat and had a nice green curry and read some more about ko tao. after an hour or so an Argentinian girl named Rochi asked to sit with me and we spent the night chattin with a little visit to a bar up a steep hill that overlooked the bay, sipped a fresh coconut shake and chilled in a hammock. the next day we met and went to explore the beaches, the first we found was a private beach (jansom bay)
Ao Leuk
lovely little remote beach where u can chill for a bit but have to pay 100b if u want to swim! (like they own the ocean!) we attempted to go to another beach but the road was so bad and steep at one point i had to brake and we started sliding backwards and almost fell off, we thought it wise to turn bk at this point. in the end we made it to Ao Leuk which was a lovely little bay practically empty with a collection of small boulders that connect the sea and sand. when u step out a couple meters into the sea loads of little fish come up to u and swim around you, a few tried to see if i was edible but luckily didnt have any teeth. the day was spent chillin and for the first time sunbathin b4 headin off to a place called moonlight which was apparently the best place on the island for the sunset. we climbed a well steep hill, at least the road was concrete tho, to a nice little place with the most amazin view of the sunset and chilled there for the night. Rochi was off to do diving the next
day so i just got on my bike and went explorin some more, found a nice little place to eat over lookin the sea and another beautiful bay and had some food and wrote my journal for the afternoon. then it was bk to moonlight for the sunset and dinner where i got to know the familly and spent the evenin talkin to Mew a Burmese guy who worked for them and was tellin me about the situation with Burma's military dictatorship as well as premiership football (they love a bit of footie in south east asia). i planned to spend the next 3 nights here as they had bungalows with the same amazin views over the west coast of the island but the next day i checked my passport and realised my visa expired the next day. so it was just one night at moonlight b4 havin to catch the express boat to chumphon and a coach to Ranong to zip across the water to the south most tip of Burma to get my stamp renewed. i would have missed the deadline and got a 500b fine if it wasnt for a kind lady named Jai at Kiwi Guesthouse
in Ranong who rushed crazilly to get me to the border and even called her friend in the police when they told me i was too late as they wanted to go home early. the journey across was pretty amazin with views of both Burma and Thailand's landscape, where clouds brushed over untouched areas of mountainous jungle. a small boy of about 12 asked me at the Burmese pier if i wanted cigarettes, whiskey or viagra LOL. he ended up giving me a 5 note of Burmese money (worth practically nothing) as a souvenir and i gave him 25b as he explained he had no food, and after my conversation with Mew i knew it wouldnt have been far from the truth. despite only being no older than 12 he conducted himself as a fully grown man would and i got some kind of insight into what Burma has become.
i got bk to Kiwi and Jai booked me a night coach to Bangkok (only VIP wasnt booked up so i had to spend about 13 quid) although for a 10 hour journey VIP i guess its not bad, it included a meal aswell. Then it was off to Bangkok,
New Heaven Restaurant
this is the view from the restaurant that overlooks the bay back to civilisation to purchase some Malaria medication for Laos Cambodia and Vietnam.
I'm headin to the North soon and hopefully the net should still be cheap so i'll blog soon as.
Much Love spk soon.
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