Blogs from Ko Yao, South-West Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 5

After a bad nights sleep we elected to get up and watch the sunrise at 0530. It didnt quite happen however and after hitting snooze a few times (lol), we finally got up at 0830 to glorious long awaited and most welcome- SUNSHINE!!!!!! We didnt yet know it but today would be a day of firsts. The first day the sun came out, the first time we would swim in the sea, making it really feel like a holiday! It would however also be the first day we would get the dreaded sunburn!!! lol. For the 1st time since ariving in Koh Yao we had a sense of urgency about ourselves as we hurried our breakfast to get out into the sunshine. Unfortunatley, to find a spot on Koh Yao's coastline devoid of rocks we needed ... read more

After beating a hasty retreat the previous night when my jet lag finally caught up with me, I awoke after 11 glorious hours un-interrupted sleep to Emma's tales of frogs in showers! (see seperate blog entry) A quick coffee later (nescafe not thai coffee which is extra strong and has a hot chocolate like texture) and we were settling down to a good hearty breakfast of banana pancakes and milkshake! Hardly a cooked fry but our wallets will thank us for it even if our appetites wouldnt! We then decided to sample the downtown Koh Ya shopping area, a single quaint market street catered towards mainly thais but selling the odd tourist trinket! In a bid to hippy-fy ourselves and look part of the crowd we bought a few bits and bob, including a jingly jangly ... read more