Blogs from Ko Lanta, South-West Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 16

It’s been a long time since I last wrote and told you all how I was doing... but there has been a good reason (ish!) for my slack blogging skills – i’ve not been travelling! Let me explain. I arrived on Koh Lanta at the end of November and since then have not budged. In fact I have been on Koh Lanta now for 80 days... and I love it here. When I last wrote I had just arrived with Jason (more about Jason later) and we did a few touristy things before he left and I started my dive master training. Well I am now a PADI certified dive master and have been working as a freelance dive master on Koh Lanta for the past few weeks. I have loved every minute spent under water. ... read more

Hey guys!!! Happy New Year!!! So sorry were behind weve been busy having too much fun!! OK so we bounded the taxi shuttle back to the pier for our trip to Koh Lanta, apparently the most up and coming island here. The Ferry over was lovely and warm and we made our way to the front so I could get some bathing in, Paulie was laughing at me as I threw dirty looks all around as people got in my space, dont these people know that its MY boat?? haha. 5 minutes from Koh Lanta and the dark clouds started to ascend.. noooooo!!! It would clear up, of course it would. As we docked it was absolutely throwing it down!! Wed ducked into a cafe and unfolded the map of Koh Lanta we'd just picked up. ... read more

Ok, so it’s kind of becoming a weird tradition now that whenever we are going somewhere we end up spending the night in an airport and guess what…our Christmas trip away starts with an overnighter in Bangkok’s airport! We will warn you now, this is quite a long blog as we had a very, let us say, eventfultime with transport on this Thailand trip. About the panorama...it makes the beach look like we are on a tiny, deserted island, which we weren't - for some reason it distorted as we stitched it together and looks a bit strange. Can we have an A for effort though? Our entertainment for the evening was taken care of almost immediately by some Italian tourists who didn’t speak English trying to order their sandwiches at the newly opened airport Subway. ... read more

Back to the start Another month has passed now and time has come to start to wrap up our belongings and relations here on Koh Lanta. I am back to birds again after a short break, we have moved to a new hotel and it's closer to the beaches and the north-eastern peak of Koh Lanta, that could be one reason as well :) So now we are just relaxing and enjoying the last weeks here. As before I have a lot of pictures but not so much to write about. Love and happiness ... read more

We took the speed boat from Phi Phi and got to sunbath on the top deck the whole way as we enjoyed another day of beautiful sunshine. After an hour and a half we arrived at Koh Lanta pier and jumped in our free transport to our hotel right on Klong Nin Beach, which was apparently the nicest beach on the island according to the tour operator. It didn't quite live up to its billing but was nice enough for a sunbathe. We also went in the sea briefly to jump into the surprising large waves which were crashing close to the shore. There wasn't much life around our hotel, so we literally just soaked up the sun for a few hours had some tea at the hotel and had a quiet night in. As the ... read more