Blogs from Ko Yao, South-West Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 3

September 14, 2010 When you are in paradise you never know what the day may bring. It may bring the rains of the monsoon, it may bring sun, and it may bring a day on the bay kayaking. But then you’re in paradise so you don’t even care what it brings. We woke up at 7:30, the sun was bright it looked to be a beautiful day. We had reserved two kayaks and after breakfast we had plans to explore the shoreline. Showers are now only done at night before dinner, your going to spend the day in the water, why waste the local water on a morning shower. We had a good breakfast, no eggs for Jerry, no repeat of the egg stomach of yesterday. I will say one thing about breakfast meet through out ... read more

Photos from our trip to Railay and Ko Yao Noi, Andaman Coast of Thailand, February 2010.... read more

Day Seventeen - How The Feck Do You Get Sunburn In The Shade?? We leave tomorrow dammit. In saying that I think we are all ready to move on, this has been relaxing and lovely but there’s only so many day in a row you can lie on a beach. After yesterday managing to burn whilst lying in the shade all day, I snuggled up to a sunshade and lathered myself in factor 50. I burned further. I also think another guest may be a friend from home but as I had no glasses on I didn’t head over thinking I’d see her again later. I didn’t so who knows? It is a small world after all. We tried some snorkelling as well but after the storm, the water was too murky and we soon ... read more

Day Fifteen - Ta Ra Terry, Heylo Heaven It was easy enough to get up early today despite a lack of sleep (Arsenal game only kicked off at 00.15 here...) as we were moving on to a proper island paradise, Ko Yao Yai. Terry had booked us a 9am taxi to the pier and true to form it arrived on time and we set off. We’d got twenty yards before Angela yelled “STOP THE TAXI” and jumped out dragging Leanne from the middle seat. Turns out there was no middle lap belt and all going through Angela’s head was the old elephant car advert. In truly dramatic style she selflessly took the danger seat and off we went. Arriving at Bong Rong Pier we were met by the ubiquitous touts waiting to make a profit at ... read more

After Phi Phi and Phuket, we decided we needed a rest, without the temptations of parties and late nights, so we headed to a small Muslim island in the South West called Koh Yao Noi. We travelled there from Phuket by bus and ferry. It was pretty rural, as soon as we got to the ferry port we realised the culture was different. The bus we were on carried many supplies for the island which, alongside two mopeds, and us, were tipped onto the "ferry." The ferry was actually just a larger longtail boat and was most definitely not water tight. The crossing took a lot longer than planned, but the islands in the area were so pretty because they were so remote. We spotted many fishermen going about their business, which was a nice change ... read more