I heart Ko PhaNgan!
So relieved to leave Cambodia, Cailtin a little too relieved (please refer to her blog for further details on that hilarity) we reached Bangkok. Everything seemed instantly easier. The streets that seemed crazy before and the people that seemed impolite were glorious now that we had been through Cambodia. Everything really is relative.
We tooled around for awhile, well really I did because Caitlin was still quite sick and hiding in the one spot of shade she could find on busy Khao San Rd. and finally headed off to the train station--trains, so much better than buses. filled with the sense of relief that the difficult part of my trip was over Caitlin and I roder and slept in what felt like luxury. In the morning we had to switch to a bus to a ferry boat and float on past all of the beautiful tropical islands watching as the water got bluer and clearer and the trees got greener and tropicalier (?) till we reached our slice of heaven, Ko PhaNgan. We had met a North London Boy named Rodney who swayed us to stay a a guesthouse called Rainbow. The people who stayed at rainbow apparently didn't like to leave. Rod had been there for a month and was returning for another, his friend Charlie has been returning every year for almost a decade. We roped this Dutch girl Karen and this Polish boy David into staying at Rainbow and were off, tuk tuking down the lane.
This place is beautiful. Really, right out of a postcard. The bungalows are literally on the beach, the water is crystal and warm, the hammocks hang from palm trees and the food is gorgeous. It feels remote but is really only 10-15 minutes from town and town is ine giant spring break party. People call coming home at 4am an early night!
After a few days of sun bathing, skin browning and attending really bad raves that remind me of an epsiode of the twilight zone starring pacey from dawson's creek where the music was turning teenagers into machines so that they would be prepared for the apocalypse, I am pretty damn relaxed. The people here have been excellent company and I certainly have regained a sense of what it means to be single. I never went on a proper "spring break" in college. I'm pretty sure this comes close.
Caitlin and I spend our days bouncing from beach to beach, sitting in saunas and steam rooms and I think later today going for a massage. Tomorrow, I believe snorkeling awaits and perhaps more of the ever desirable floating (Caitlin's favorite sport).
I've got one more day of glory and then the train back to Bangkok and a flight over to Mumbai. I thought that this island would rejuvenate me, but really all its down is intoxicate me with its charms so that I'm not so sure I want to head out to the full-on wonders of India quite yet...
wishing you all could enjoy the white beaches and blue waters of Thailand with me,
maya
We tooled around for awhile, well really I did because Caitlin was still quite sick and hiding in the one spot of shade she could find on busy Khao San Rd. and finally headed off to the train station--trains, so much better than buses. filled with the sense of relief that the difficult part of my trip was over Caitlin and I roder and slept in what felt like luxury. In the morning we had to switch to a bus to a ferry boat and float on past all of the beautiful tropical islands watching as the water got bluer and clearer and the trees got greener and tropicalier (?) till we reached our slice of heaven, Ko PhaNgan. We had met a North London Boy named Rodney who swayed us to stay a a guesthouse called Rainbow. The people who stayed at rainbow apparently didn't like to leave. Rod had been there for a month and was returning for another, his friend Charlie has been returning every year for almost a decade. We roped this Dutch girl Karen and this Polish boy David into staying at Rainbow and were off, tuk tuking down the lane.
This place is beautiful. Really, right out of a postcard. The bungalows are literally on the beach, the water is crystal and warm, the hammocks hang from palm trees and the food is gorgeous. It feels remote but is really only 10-15 minutes from town and town is ine giant spring break party. People call coming home at 4am an early night!
After a few days of sun bathing, skin browning and attending really bad raves that remind me of an epsiode of the twilight zone starring pacey from dawson's creek where the music was turning teenagers into machines so that they would be prepared for the apocalypse, I am pretty damn relaxed. The people here have been excellent company and I certainly have regained a sense of what it means to be single. I never went on a proper "spring break" in college. I'm pretty sure this comes close.
Caitlin and I spend our days bouncing from beach to beach, sitting in saunas and steam rooms and I think later today going for a massage. Tomorrow, I believe snorkeling awaits and perhaps more of the ever desirable floating (Caitlin's favorite sport).
I've got one more day of glory and then the train back to Bangkok and a flight over to Mumbai. I thought that this island would rejuvenate me, but really all its down is intoxicate me with its charms so that I'm not so sure I want to head out to the full-on wonders of India quite yet...
wishing you all could enjoy the white beaches and blue waters of Thailand with me,
maya
posted by Maya J. Gat @ 1:42 AM
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At 5:18 AM,
Anonymous said…
It was great speaking to you this morning.
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