Koh Lanta we love you!

Ok so it's been 2 weeks and we are still here, we can't leave and we now call this place home - we found a great palce to stay were the owners have welcomed us here with open arms. Every night they let us try some of the strangest and tasty meals - bitter wild mushrooms, pepper beans, pigs tongue, asian jelly, mini mangoes...you name it we have tried it! Also they have been teaching us to cook these wacky and wild dishes...as well as letting us cook whatever we like, it has been nice to have a kitchen. We also set up a little pancake stall one day outside the front and did a great job of cooking, advertising and... eating the pancakes! We learnt from scratch how to pick, cut open and remove the insides of a coconut. Much harder than you would imagine.

Half way through we were joined by Oli and George, two close friends from London, it was nice to have a familiar face about and we did some nights out on the beach drinking buckets and buckets literally :) We made a visit to the market and bought tones of prawns, squid and fish and cooked up a magnificent feast for us and the owners! As well as singing the night away with guitar and harmonicas in hand, we think they enjoyed it...

A few days were spent exploring the island on motorbikes - riding over dirt tracks to the national park where we were literally attacked by monkeys...they nicked our food and didn't like the look of Claud in particular...she ran for her life! The beach was worth it and the amazing view from the bar we stopped at on the way back was exceptionally stunning!

Sadly we had to say our goodbyes to Oli but George is still with us and we are chilling out here before heading off to Koh Pan Gnan to finish off our trip with a bang!

Last but not least Sophie has fallen madly in love with the owners chihuaha called 'Pizza', they are very rarely seen apart and Claudia is expressing some jealousy all ready... feel free to browse the pics on facebook to see the love blossoming!

See you soon!!

koh phi pih - koh lanta

So our first few nights in Koh Phi Phi we spent in a gorgeous but noisy hut literally in the beach bar!! So we embraced and partied through the night and passed out on the beach or in our room in the day! We then found a fab new room, far from the noise, and with a bathroom which literally looked like a jungle, it truly was like being at one with nature!! It's definitely the way to shower! The people were crazy and great and we enjoyed chilling out with them and the other people staying there...

Some nights we partied on the beach, some on the roof top bar...and made a lot of new Thai, Swedish, Finnish friends....We had a little adventure kayaking around the island and stopping off in little bays that were just crazily beautiful! And we gave in and decided to do a group tour of another island which was actually great fun: kayaking, snorkeling with the most bizarre fish, the famous 'Beach' from the movie, and then dinner on the boat as the sunset...and an added bonus there was an incredible storm over the ocean as we headed back to the main land!

Koh Phi Phi and the people were great to us and it was sad to say goodbye, but we are now in peaceful Koh Lanta, exploring and adventuring!!

Koh Pang - Koh Phi Phi

Since we have done a lot we are just going to write small snippets of what we have done to give you an idea of the crazy journey we have been on...

Koh Pang: Drove around the island for 2 days - first day by quad bike, to a "waterfall" it was acctually a trickle...but we had hope and climbed for 2 hours yes that was 2 hours!! no water in mid day heat...to find more trickle!!!!!!!! Lets just say the view from the top was good, even better was the 2 gallons of water we consumed at the bottom of the blooming mountain! Second day we took motorbikes and rode to beaches, saw elephants and ended up at a nice thai food fair...yum yum!

Koh Samui: Hmmm...more Koh Poohui!! Busy, smelly, building packed together, everythign you don't need or want in paradise...plus the L.A / Ibiza wannabes showing off in ridiculously tight bathing suits, seriously put it away!! So we escaped on motorbikes and drove around the entire island...stopped off at beaches, another slightly better waterfall, fishing village, big buddah and decided to be bad and had a Mc Donalds...don't judge us, we havent had western food for like 2 months!! Yet the best bit of Koh Samui was still to come that evening....knock knock....on our door...'hello who is it?'....oh great a crazy phsyco on the other side of the door!! they jsut kept knocking and saying nothing then they started to try and unlock the door, we held it shut and grabbed weapons (spray cans and snorkel tube!) and they acctually managed to unlock the door and we panicked pushed it shut and then nothing...they were gone and we hearrd nothing more!!

Railay: Nice room, beach by day, coffee shack (looking over the sea, read books)... bars by night, met and partied with some good thai people! Bad hangover, evil buckets!!! Saw lots of monkeys...LOTS!!! we fed some and even came accross a whole family in the jungle, with an adorable bright orange baby!! Great adventure...lagoon treck, literally rock climbing (vertical drops) through the jungle, no equipment but you reach the most gorgeous lagoon!!

Phi Phi: We are here! Yay! Lovely place...a lot has changed but it is still great, and we were treated to the most incredibly loud and intensley powerful thunder storm! Scary but amazing....