Koh Lanta

We left phi phi reluctantly but time is short and we didn't know what the next island was like! Reading and listening about Koh Lanta made us decide to go. The usual started up when we got on the ferry where people try and sell you their hotels. One ladies hotel sounded good and cheap so we went with her.

Well what can we say about Koh Lanta!! We lay in our infinity pool looking out at the sea, lazed in the deck chairs on the beach, watched the sun go down over the sea (from either location), and generally soaked up the sun and relaxed!

The food was great too! We ate on the beach every night tucking into such things as Barracuda (which is a pretty scary looking fish we swan with in Koh Toa), mackerel and of course the mighty Massaman curry.

One night, as we were heading for bed a group of people asked us to join their card game. They were from France, Spain and Norway, but luckily all spoke to each other in English!!

We walked to Long beach the next day to see if it was any nicer. It was surprisingly, a long beach but we decided we preferred where we were staying. Looking for a short cut back to our beach (instead of the road way) we found ourselves in the woods. Going up mud paths and abseiling down hills in flip flops isn't easy! We got down and then had a mountain of rocks to navigate through before getting back to our beach. One of the reasons our beach was better was because it had lots of Bubble crabs. They make sand balls whilst looking for food. Its really funny to watch them make them!!

We loved Koh Lanta so much we stayed an extra night, and even then didn't really want to leave!

The next day we got picked up to goto Krabi airport which consisted of.... Minibus ferry minibus ferry minibus! Sounds bad but only took 2 hours!!

Time for a new country when we land, this time kids, it's Malaysia!