Lamai Beach, Thailand, Asia I got up early this morning and the Easy Divers taxi was at my hotel at exactly 7am to pick me up. We picked up a few other people on the way to the pier and got on the boat just in time for our 8am departure time. I was under the impression that it was going to be about an hour and a half to the dive site, it turned out to be about three…
Lamai Beach, Thailand, Asia I got up today and decided that these waterfalls were not going to elude me any longer. I hopped on a scooter and left Lynne to soak up some of the sun’s rays. I headed west to find “Waterfall 2” and I found where Lynne and I had gone wrong before. We took a turn about 0.5k too soon, so when I kept driving on, I found the entrance to the waterfall. I parked at the…
Lamai Beach, Thailand, Asia We got up this morning and had an early breakfast at the resort before being picked up by the taxi company. We bought our ferry ticket for Koh Phangan from reception last night and it included a taxi pickup from our hotel. They picked us up at 8:30am and we were at the pier by 9:10am. This would have been perfect, except our ferry wasn’t leaving until 10:30am! I have no idea why they picked us…
Lamai Beach, Thailand, Asia Lynne and I got up at about 7am after both having a terrible night’s sleep. There is no A/C in the room, just a fan on the ceiling and it was pretty noisy and still just too hot in the room. But since we were up, we figured we’d head out to the beach and get a good spot before it got busy. It really is a beautiful place to be with white sand beaches and…
Lamai Beach, Thailand, Asia I got up this morning and enjoyed my last awesome breakfast at the resort. Lynne and I packed up our stuff and got a taxi to the airport and were happy to drive through the rain the whole time. At least we knew we weren’t leaving any sunshine behind on the east coast. The check-in at the airport was dead easy again and I’m really starting to enjoy travelling through these small airports. The flight was…
Kamala, Thailand, Asia Today was our last full day in Phuket and we were praying for a little bit of sunshine. We didn’t get it. Unfortunately, it rained all day, just like the rest of the week. We spent the morning making a plan for tomorrow and a tentative plan for the week coming up. We’re going to fly to Koh Samui tomorrow at noon and spend a couple of nights there. Flying is only a little more expensive ($85)…
Kamala, Thailand, Asia So it rained again today, all day. I don’t mind doing nothing when I feel like I’m choosing to do nothing, but being forced into doing nothing just isn’t as fun. Lynne went down into Kamala today and got a massage, but I just wasn’t feeling it, so I hung back for a bit and then met her in the village after. We had a couple of drinks and a bite to eat at a beachside restaurant,…
Kamala, Thailand, Asia It rained all day today, so again we didn’t get the chance to do anything. We went down to Kamala for dinner again and that was awesome! Thai food is definitely the best stuff I’ve had on my trip so far. We checked out how much it would be to get mopeds to go scooting around the island and they are pretty cheap ($7 a day), but we just have to hope for some good weather. Fingers…
Kamala, Thailand, Asia We woke up this morning to hear and see a proper monsoon going outside. It was a little ridiculous how much it was raining. We went for breakfast in the restaurant, which was awesome again, and could see that this rain was not going to let up all day. We played a game of pool in the game room at the hotel and then just spent the rest of the day chilling in the room watching tv….
Kamala, Thailand, Asia We got up today and had another unbelievable breakfast. It’s now at the point that I can’t wait for tomorrow just so I can go have breakfast again. It’s a very nice change from hostels where you normally just have white toast with blackcurrant jam, and nothing else. This luxury is very nice. Unfortunately, the weather isn’t as great today and it was pretty overcast all day. Lynne was out in the sun anyway trying to soak…