Ko Lanta

Our fourth and final Thai island for this trip and we decided to head to the sandy island of Ko Lanta. We spent a week here just visiting the beaches etc, really nice way to say goodbye to Thailand. Unfortunately I was quite ill the majority of the time while we were on Lanta so we didn’t do half as much as we would have liked to, so that was a bit of a shame. But at least the beaches were a good spot for some R&R!

On the final day we decided to do this little jungle walk to a waterfall down at the south of the island – what a waste! It was a mammoth walk for the most pathetic waterfall I’ve ever seen, at least Ben and I had a good laugh about it! So after that ridiculously hot trek we needed a cool off in the sea pronto, we found this great little hidden beach – so all wasn’t lost on our little day trip!

Ko Phi Phi

So excited about the prospect of Phi Phi and even the boat ride in, didn’t disappoint, it was absolutely beautiful! Such a picturesque island, limestone casts rising out of the turquoise blue sea and white sand, it was easy to see why it was chosen to be the setting for “The Beach”.

We spent the majority of our time on the island exploring the amazing beaches, the sea was so warm there the swimming was out of this world! There were some excellent restaurants on the island too so we were more than happy to feed our growing love of Thai food.

One of the days we went on a boat trip around the island and to Ko Phi Phi Lei (the smaller Phi Phi island). That was a really great day but so long, we were out all day until sunset with only a fried rice to keep us ticking over – fair to say we needed a bit more fuel than that! It was lovely though, the snorkeling was amazing and all the little islands were beautiful. The highlight of the day was stopping in Maya Bay (where “The Beach” was actually filmed), Ben and I kayaked to the beach and then went snorkeling in the bay – although I did see a really scary fish, it may have been an eel actually – really freaked me out! As a whole I would strongly recommend Phi Phi, it really is the most beautiful of them all!

Ko Samui

Finally time to head down to the sunny Thai islands! Really looking forward to the next few weeks just chilling on the beautiful beaches and our first stop was Ko Samui. We unfortunately missed the infamous “full moon party” so decided to head to the larger island on the east coast. It was absolutely lovely, white sand and loads of things to do – including mini golf, which was great fun!

But after a couple of beautiful days on the beach etc, the rain came, and did not give up!!! There was so much rain in the 3 more days we were on the island so we were shipwrecked in our own hotel room watching 24 and occasionally popping out braving the weather to challenge Ben to a game of pool! We couldn’t complain too much though, it was the first bit of bad weather that we really had and it’s fair to say we did quite enjoy our 3 days of relaxation. So after that we decided to head to the opposite coast to escape the storm, our next stop to be Ko Phi Phi.