Blogs from Ko Lanta, South-West Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 18

We had an early start today as we began our journey to Koh Lanta. After saying our goodbyes to the Americans, which we had grown so close to, we decided to welcome Scotty back into the group (reluctantly). What we believed to be an hour and a half trip turned into a 5 hour mission that involved every form of transport vehicle you can imagine! This only added to our already irritable moods due to be being promised white sandy beaches, blue skies and sunshine, but this was replaced with nothing short of Hurricane Katrina!! The evening was better however, as Luke, Mike and Scott found some better accomodation for the next couple of days whilst Al preferred to keep in the dry and catch up on some sleep. We purchased some budget alcohol (big mistake) ... read more

For our last night in railay we moved our things to stay at cabanas, the rasta run bar and bungalows in the jungle. its definitely one of my favourite places we've stayed, basic bungalows but the vibe is so chilled out, all the travellers sit around the bonfire listening to bob marley and chilling all night! we heard that a lot of backpackers stay at tonsai beach, which you can only reach by longboat or a half hour trek through the jungle, so we decided to check it out. somehow the six of us ended up falling asleep for the afternoon (tired from elephant trekking in the morning) so when we woke it was dark! still, after some more pad thai we were pretty sure we could still make it in the dark. now if ... read more

Die Fahrt verlief auf bis zur naechsten Insel, Ko Lanta, dauerte auch mit dem Speedbot ueber drei Stunden. Das Wetter war dieses Mal besser, der Himmel zwar teilweise bewoelkt, aber ohne Regen und es war kein starker Wind. Ausserdem war das Boot diesmal besser gegen Spritzwasser und Regen geschuetzt und so war die Fahrt sogar recht erholsam. Ko Lanta habe ich bereits 2005 bei meinem ersten THailand-Aufenthalt besucht und im Gegensatz zu anderen Orten hat habe ich nicht den Eindruck, dass sich der Charakter der Insel in dieser Zeit stark veraendert hat. Ko Lanta eine ruhigere Insel und noch nicht so ausgebaut, wie Phuket oder Ko Samui. Natuerlich gibt es hier eine touristische Infrastruktur. Es handelt sich um eine groessere Insel mit entsprechend vielen Bungalowanlagen fuer jeden Geldbeutel, Reisebueros, Strandrestaurants und Tauchschulen. Aber es handelt sich ... read more

So Trevor (Me) is starting first.... So last night I couldn't sleep while my darling wife fell asleep to the movie we were watching on my iphone in 5 min as per the usual. So, I stayed up and watched the whole movie then did some reading. Then I heard some bag rustling.... then again, I am like oh no a mouse or worse a rat, if im lucky a cockroach got into something we left in one of our shopping bags. So I get my headlamp and creep towards the bag, open it up, and there is a gecko about as long as my middle finger chomping down on one of oreos (vanilla cookie with a chocolate centre), so I left one out for the little guy (he eats bugs most of the time after ... read more

heres a trailer of a film i am making about lanta and catching dogs i went out with dog catchers from soi dogs in phuket who were here on a 5 day sterilization programme... read more