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Published: November 30th 2007
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Longboat
Getting ready to board or get wet? As you can see, we are still on the Island of Koh Lanta just taking in the sites and chilling until next week when we move to Krabi.
A few things to catch up on so will start off with the touristy stuff as we have not really mentioned much of the Island. It is approx 4 miles wide at its widest point and 14 miles long, mainly flat, however there are the occasional hills which are always handy when a Tsunami is approaching (they have signs now showing you the best way to head if one is approaching) and as long as you can run 100 metres in less than 8 seconds, you will be fine. On the West side of the Island is where you will find all the sandy beaches, and its there that 90% of the tourist accommodation can be found. On the East is where the land is farmed and where loads of small Islands sit lonely within the Sea. There is a fantastic outlook of this at a Restaurant named ironically Viewpoint, this is where we sat and had a couple of beers and took some photos, however they do not do it justice
Our Swedish Friends
Christian & Theresa at all but we will post on the blog for interest. One fascinating thing we learned was the way in which they produce rubber. All around the Island you can see little pots which are dangling around tree trunks, what the locals do is to remove a strip of bark and the sap that leaks from the tree is collected to make all sorts of rubber or plastic materials, did you know that?
A couple of tips to take in which may help if anyone decides to ever visit Thailand, the usual don’t eat yellow snow and all that still applies, but add onto this, don’t plan too much especially where accommodation is concerned. We booked ours from the tour operator, you remember Rowland, although it is nice, we have paid far too much. We went to a really nice one around the corner yesterday and decided to pop in to see as Jim Bowen would say “lets see what you could have had”, for a lot less a lot more was the answer. One we would definitely recommend to anyone is the Dream Team Resort. Another good pointer is to never accept their fist price, always look to
Moped Mania
Notice how there is nothing else on the road go half and then settle for in between that, the Thais love to try it on.
Most of our days have just been either exploring the Island or chilling on the beach, (boy we look good) with a little partying along the way. We met up with a really nice Swedish couple Christian and Theresa who were full of useful knowledge and a good laugh on the way (its been dead since you left guys). Christian Magdu is an actor (google him ladies, think you will like) and his girlfriend Theresa a Director, how bad is that compared to what we did. Still they knew how to party and ended up in one session drinking snakes blood, monkeys brains, followed by a blow job and a quick f*c*, boy these Swedes are really liberal (they are all drinks by the way). The affect of the monkeys brains was soon visible as Karen and Theresa could be seen swinging from the tree which was inside the bar, we boys settled for the more energetic experience of connect 4, a big hit over here.
Today we drove via moped to the sister Island of Koh Lanta Noi, it is only
Accommodation
A typical local house separated by a couple hundred yards of sea and the only way to cross is via longboat. If your not sure what these look like well they are long, narrow and driven by an old Rover 3500 litre engine without and exhaust. Entry is via a ramp made of any old pieces of wood, again not sure on BSI standard but it seems to work, no revving too much in case I go on and then off again. I eventually manage to stumble on board, now for the tricky bit, you have to turn around your bike so that you can drive off when you arrive at the other end. I had no idea whatsoever how to do this as the bike weighs a tonne, luckily there was a 11 year old lad on board who had it around a ready in 5 seconds flat. Now I’m not sure how many tourists visit this Island but its the first time ever we felt like little celebrities, everyone we saw either smiled, waved and called out, we think they were being nice or maybe they had never seen over 40 stone on a moped. The Island itself was unspoilt by tourism,
Tsunami
Directions to run in the event! and to be honest I can see why, although it was very nice there were very few beaches, mainly little coves and if there were 200 people living there that would be it. But it is worth a visit if only for the views of the surrounding islands. After only 3 hours we ad driven around the Island nearly twice so decided to head off back home and get ready for yet another night out enjoying the local cuisine, boy we would kill for a Sunday roast and mash, what will we be like in 6 months?
Be good everyone and keep in touch
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Mike
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Are you really out there?
Hi guys, bloggy thing is starting to look very profesional........must be Karen's doing! Love the photo of the balsa wood landing craft, did you actually manage to ride onto it Brian or was this just wishful thinking. Look forward to the next episode. Kindest Regardss to you both Mike