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Roy Katong
Written by Richard Wonka Tuesday, 03 November 2009 11:38
On our day off, two days ago we went out cycling south to explore the island a bit, ending up at a beautiful waterfall, well into the jungle on the south end of Ko Lanta. The walk up a little stream took us through some beautiful rain forest, as it should look like. Huge, towering trees, plants with leaves bigger than both of us together and the sounds of a million living things hidden somewhere behind a thick curtain of lush green. The shower in the pool of the waterfall was then most welcome after the cycling and trekking through the jungle on a hot tropical day.
September 2nd this year was Roy Katong which is a festivity in which Lanterns are sent flying into the sky like small hot air balloons made of rice paper and small floats made from banana leaves with candles and incense on them are set out into the sea to carry one's hopes and wishes for the future.
Arriving on Ko Lanta and getting wet
Written by Richard Wonka Wednesday, 28 October 2009 17:26
The last leg of our journey from Krung Thep (as they call Bangkok here) is over and led us straight into a bit of an odyssey, finding long-term accommodation. It's not an issue to find a nice and cheap place to stay here at any time, but when you want to stay longer and your resources are limited, then finding something decent might turn out to be a bit more difficult.
But more of that later. How did we get there in the first place?
Paknam Luan Sang to Surat Thani
Written by Sarah Whitcher Saturday, 17 October 2009 20:40
Paknam Luan Suang: Found a very nice place to crash out right next to the beach, it was more expensive than we would normally pay (500BHT/ 10€) but seeing as we slept for free last night we decided to treat ourselves. We arrived midday and I went straight to sleep for a couple of hours to try to make up for the lack of sleep the night before. When I awoke I took a stroll down to the shore and took in the wonderful sight of looking out onto the Gulf of Thailand with the long-tail boats out at sea, palm drenched white sand beach and a few Buddhist Monks walking the shore line towards me.
Chumpon to Pak Nam Luan Suang
Written by Richard Wonka Saturday, 17 October 2009 19:33
Yes, we've been busy travelling. So what has happened those days after leaving Chumpon?
Two nights at Suda Guest house at Chumpon proved to be very nice to shake some of the kilometres cycled out of our bones. Chumphon is one of those underestimated towns, aparently, that people just spend a couple of hours in on the way to their visa run or one of the islands in the Gulf of Thailand, but it's actually a very nice and relaxed town, just big enough to offer most conveniences (like Slurpees at 7/11), but not too big noisy to lose the charm of the country.
Samut Sakhorn to Chumphon
Written by Sarah Whitcher Monday, 12 October 2009 11:44
We have worked out that we cycled approx. 80km on our second stage of our tour, to which a seasoned cyclist would think nothing of but we both felt it was a great distance! We started off from Samut Sakhorn and cycled to Petchaburi taking the scenic route. And so after this epic start to our bike tour of thailand we decided to take a days rest in Petchaburi. We found some basic accommodation late at night and set up camp there for two nights. It wasn't until we started to unpack that Richard had found out that he had left his bike lock by the side of the road where we had changed shirts about 20km outside Ban Laem (30km distance from Petchaburi). More Articles...
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