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12th – 14th Nov – Pulau Penang
We arrived at the Star guest house which was suggested by Leo an interesting character from the Rainbow Lodge by 9 that evening, we soon headed for food at a great food market area just down the road. That evening we phoned home to wish Nikki and Sam a happy birthday. The next day we…
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7th – 11th Nov – Pulau Langkawi (Malaysia)
This morning we had to be at immigration for 9 which took 2 seconds them we had to wait until 10.30 for the ferry so what else was there to do apart from a foot massage! Lovely start to the day. The ferry was nice and hardly anybody on it, we came into the port…
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Langkawi, tourist resort – but an acquired taste
We arrived into Malaysia at the port of Kuah on the east side of Pulao Langkawi, to the sight if the giant eagle statue whos impressiness gives a hint to the far richer infrastructure on Langkawi (and Malaysia as a whole) compared to the precious countries in our SE Asia tour. A taxi driver found…
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31st, 1st, 2nd Nov – Koh Ngai
So we arrived by longtail boat which just dropped us off on the beach and we assumed that all the resorts would be open including the cheap tentalows (just tents) its turns out they were not open until the following day. Un-phased we went in search of open places after asking a few I started…
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Lovely Ko Lipe
Ko Lipe is a lovely little island next to two larger islands designated as national park. We hopped off the speedboat onto the main beach, and managed to find a nice cheap little bungalow (400b/fan) behind the main beach front. The drawback to the main beach is that there are lots of boats moored there,…
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28th – 30th Oct – Koh Lanta
So we arrived into Lanta by Ferry, on board were various touts telling you about places to stay. We were approached by a lady telling us she had cheap bungalows on the beach and free taxi from and return to the port, sounded good so we agreed to go and look. When we got there…
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26th – 27th Oct – Phi Phi
On the boat to Phi Phi we decided we wanted to stay on the quite side of the Island and with the help of one of the many touts on board we decided on Rantee bay, again the accommodation is more expensive than we would like but we were assured we were in one of…
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24th – 25th Oct – Phuket
So our journey back to Thailand started at 2am, we got the bus to Bangkok via the Aranya Prathet boarder crossing. It was a little bit of a stressful journey as we had booked flights from Bangkok to Phuket at 2.40 that afternoon, when we booked them we were told we had plenty of time…
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Ko Ngai (Hai) – quiet island bliss
Imagine a place with only a few upmarket resorts, electricity during nighttime only and a huge stretch of white sandy beach dropping off to aqua green sea and light breeze through the fine, wind swept trees. When we hopped off the longtail boat (the only people getting off at this island after the 1hr 30…
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A few days on Koh Lanta – beach time!
We got hooked up with a another tout on the boat, who offered us a free lift to her family run resort, to take a look at their rooms, with no obligation. It tuned out well again, with the room costing 400b/night (fan) and very well appointed. Lanta Nature Beach Resort grew on me, at…