Thailand
Southeast Asian Odyssey '24, part two
Malaysia was wonderful; Thailand beckons. We’ve started off in style, on the tiny island of Koh Lipe. We’re here for a week or so’s beach-bumming, before meeting up with friends for a few days on another tiny island before heading for a national park, thence to Bangkok, then off to Cambodia. At least, that’s the plan as it stands. In the words of the barmy army, ‘ere we go, ‘ere we go, ‘ere we go…
All good things come to an end, they say – and they’re right of course.
We’ve run out of islands to hop, at least for the moment, so tomorrow we have to leave all...
Pretty low bar but.
Following up our recent bruising experience with Tigerline Ferries, we took what looked an even scrappier boat for our trip to Krabi on the mainland. At first it...
There’s worse views to have from your balcony.
So, we left the hotel and went down to the 7-11, where we’d been told all the tuk-tuks hung out in the morning. Not a tuk-tuk...
We’d come to Khao Sok national park because we bumped into a young German woman who said it was lovely. She was right.
But I was the one who found the restaurant just down the...
National Park day today – our one day tour, with boat rides, trekking through the jungle, and clambering through a cave.
Didn’t start off too well, with a tedious two hours...
Perhaps telling that the most interesting image I can come up with is of the egg & banana roti I had for lunch. It’s been that kind of day.
Really not too much to say about...