Trang

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After Ko Tarutao and a night in Pak Bara on the mainland (sharing our shower with a cockraoch and a frog!) we had to work out how to head towards Ko Pha Ngan miles further north and on the opposite coast in time for the full moon party on the 13th. The only obvious place to head to was Trang which is known for little more than being a transport centre for trips to the West coast.

I actually found it quite nice to be in a city again (albeit a pretty small city) where there was traffic and noise in contrast to the peace and serenity of the previous few stops.

The highlight of the town was an impressive night-market with hundreds of stalls of weird and wonderful looking and smelling foods. I'm starting to get to the point where I'm no longer bothered about whether the stall owner can tell me what something is - if it looks and smells good I'll try it (when each dish costs about 30p it's no great loss if it doesn't turn out as well as I had hoped).

We made the mistake of going to Trang's "posh" restaurant to treat ourselves and spent a whole fiver between us on food that wasn't nearly as good as what you can buy from street vendors for a fraction of the price. A lesson learned I guess!

Having discoverred that it's only a 4 hour train ride direct to Surat Thani (where we can get a boat to Ko Pha Ngan) it's now just a matter of hoping that we can sort out some sort of accomadation for the full-moon party.

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[travis]

Be good to my sister!