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Published: October 28th 2006
Late night
enjoying some late night food. so good at night, so bad the next morning.Our six days in Thailand were pretty quiet and nothing much happened. Highlights would include:
Thai Boxing. It was pretty sweet sitting behind a chain link fence watching little Thai guys kick the shit out of each other while all the people around us shouted at each other and threw gambling slips around.
Watching almost every episode of friends and several different movies in the hostel.
Subway and McDonalds.
Disappointment:
Pat Pong district. It was cool, but a little too touristy if you ask me. Apparently it just keeps getting better or worse (depending on how you look at it) every year.
After Bangkok we headed down south to the island of Koh Samui to enjoy some time on the beach before the full moon party. Travelling in Thailand is so incredibly simple that we basically had a tour guide from Bangkok to Koh Samui. They come pick you up at the hotel (where you buy the tickets) put you on a bus (which was air conditioned, had ample leg room and a toilet) completely filled with other backpackers, mark you with a sticker so they know what your destination is, tell you when to
Late night
He was breathing... eat, sleep and pee, transfer you to another vehicle and then put you on the boat. Needless to say the 18 hour journey from Bangkok to Koh Samui was extremely pleasant and a great way to get back into long travel days. I guess my only complaint would be that the pirated movies they show on the bus freeze for 10 minutes every 30 minutes or so.
Koh Samui as Lush put it, is like Isla Grande except 1000 times the size and with 1000 times more buildings and people. We got a banda right on the beach about 15m from the sea, went and saw grandmother and grandfather rocks (which are basically the rock version of male and female genitalia), and puttered around the island on our scooters. The good news is that the local drivers are so used to tourists who don't know how to drive bikes that they stay well clear of us.
Last thoughts:
I'm pretty sure that Tanzania has completely destroyed all trust that I used to have for people.
If it were not for the summer of hell I would be coming home already. Thinking of it makes the time
Khao San
Khao San road...site of thousands of gap year kids, hippies, sex tourists, lady boys and hookers... on the beach - and I have been away from a beach way too long - all that much better.
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