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Day trip to Ko Surin
It's Wednesday already and after our trips to Ko Kai and Khaosok National Park we took a rest on Tuesday to recharge and also see what's around our hotel resort? We went for a walk on Tuesday afternoon ... thninking about it ... that's definitely enough material for another blog entry. This one is dedicated to Ko Surin. The islands are again off Thailand's West coast on the Andaman Sea and form a National Park, this time we were actually told to avoid touching or collecting a
Snorkelling in the Andaman Sea
Yesterday we went off for our first Snorkel trip here in Thailand and had a lot of fun, more sun and ... got sun burnt 😳 we booked all our trips with @ecokhaolak - they are present at the hotel and sounded like a good choice too, small groups and environmentally friendly. The trip took us close to the Myanmar boarder, so quite a bit North. We were only 11 people and boarded the long tail boat around 10am. Our crew of three wasn't very talkative and our leader of the day, cal
Day Trip to Khaosok National Park
After our snorkelling trip yesterday it was time to cover up the back of our legs - we only have SFP swim shirts, no trousers (might be worth investigating in a pair of these :)) - early morning start and a small group of six this time. Our guide for today is Bee and he really wants to wake us up - his iPad is full of interesting pictures of spiders (they are big), scorpions and elephants, birds and monkeys. Besides the spiders we haven't seen any other animals Bee showed us
Thailand - Khaolak
It's magical here the sea turquoise blue and the vegetation simply lush Of course we experience mild jet lag signs but overall we already feel rested and are curious to explore the area ... day trips to Suratthani National Park (hike) and Surin Island National Park are booked 😎🏝⛰ Here are some more pics from yesterday The sun sets here around 6.30pm which was too late for us yesterday 😳 Palm trees everywhere and our welcome drink was coconut water with small melon 🍉 balls
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