Hey guys. I'm back into Bangkok, I flew Air Asia from Kuala Lumpur back to Bangkok yesterday. I had a blast, my latest adventure was pretty cool. The total trip time was about 3 weeks. I left Bangkok with some Thai friends because we were headed to the island of Koh Tao. To get there, we took an overnight VIP bus to a port down south and then took a high speed ferry to the island. It was pretty nice and convenient, only cost the equivalent of about $25 CND to get all the way over there.
The reason we were going to Koh Tao was because the island was having one of their annual island celebrations called the "Koh Tao Underwater Word Festival". I was happy to go because the purpose of the festival is to promote environmental responsibility for the island and includes the annual underwater cleanup project along with other initiatives to sustain the island (such as recycling all the islands toxic waste like batteries and whatnot).
So me, Frank, Blue, Pim and her boyfriend stayed on Koh Tao and we met up with another friend named Art. All of us had a great time. Frank and I participated in the underwater cleanup dive where we pulled out quite a bit of garbage from the ocean. We also scuba-dove at a beautiful location just off the island. Later the next night we had the foam party where they filled up this big outside area with a bunch of foam and we danced the night away, soaking ourselves in foam. And yes, apparently the foam was biodegradable and environmentally friendly :). I absolutely loved Koh Tao, it is one of the most beautiful islands I've seen in Thailand so far. I have a few more to see.I had to leave a day early to take a bus to Krabi, another area of Southern Thailand. Brett was already in Krabi and I was meeting him there. So I arrived via an overnight bus to the town of Krabi where I met another Canadian on the bus traveling as well. We exchanged information and stuck together for a bit because traveling as two is better than one! Once I met up with Brett, we went over to the island of Lanta, called Koh Lanta. It was a beautiful secluded area of the island with lush tropics surrounded by steep mountainous terrain. It was definitely one of the more beautiful serene locations I've been to in a while. You almost forget what the rest of Thailand is like when you've been spending time in the noisy, stinky, loud, polluted city of Bangkok.
So Brett and I stayed at this cool little "resort" called "Yaya Resort". It was only about $20/night CND to stay there. The resort had a restaurant and played movies at night. We spent a few days here lounging on the beautiful beaches as shown in the two beach pictures above. We also would spend our nights finding random restaurants on the beach serving a variety of Thai, Western and other interesting cuisine.
So that's about it for my Krabi/Koh Lanta trip. We went to Malaysia right after this, and I'll post that in a new entry as soon as I can. Malaysia was a lot of fun, can't wait for you to see the pictures of it!
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