Good morning and another beautiful day to you, the sun is shining and I am
leaving Koh Phanang
so I'm catching the boat, going across the mainland crossing the mainland
hopefullly by bus, and going to the beach near Krabi, Ao Nang. First though lets show
you how the boat works from Ko Phanang. I have already got my ticket check in for my
boat trip.
Well it was a beautiful boat ride took about 2.5 hours
from Koh Phangan, we went to drop some people off and meet some more
people in Ko Samui and then we went across to the mainland at Surut Thani Where
buses and coaches were waiting to funnel all the passengers
so you go off the boat, up the ramp
there was a signboard with the bus number and destination
and an arrow, you wandered off to get ticket for your bus
give us your bags in now the
seat on the bus and here we are
so it's time to kick it back as much
space as I have
ok, try and relax a little bit
and enjoy the 3 hour journey from
Surrut Thani to Krabi
where I get on another bus
It's a beautiful day, look.
Well I did have a bit of a nap, I was quite tired
there's some reasonably noisy children on the bus
kept me awake unfortunately, but there we go
just about 20kn outside of Krabi
so it's time to get myself organised
get my bags, find my shoes, no idea where they'v gone off to.
and get ready to get off this bus, onto the next bus,
to go to Ao Nang beach
then I've got to find a hotel
- Excuse me the bus to Ao Nang - Ao Nang you have contact inside for it
- Inside, thank you very much - you have to confirm your hotel at the counter please
the bus for Elmo and now you have to find a key sighs okay thank you just
Just under three hours, no drama nice slow journey nice and easy and arrived
now
when you're dropped off, your arrive here where if you've got an onward journey
you can go and
the smaller buses where I am getting my bus in 50 minutes to Ao Nang also as
part of the ticket
- good evening do you have a free room available for tonight
- and what special price can you do for me?
- good evening do you have a room
available for tonight?
Well, got dropped off by the minibus from
the ferry right near the beach, but not, just off the beach while I went a hotel
hunting. Went into a cafe, borrowed the wifi, I did some research
looked around and came up with this place
which is called Wake Up.
Quite a new place it's simple, but
it's clean and it gave me a great price and it's a good location so let me show
you the room here
so let's break in
there we go
and...power up nice big airy room it's got aircon
there's a fridge and a safe in the room is a sink
that is the shower and of course a toilet
1,500 baht, slightly less than that
I paid, which is okay considering
most hotels around here were like two three thousand baht and the best bit is there's
a posh resort next door which is sort of like joined to this I'm not sure what the situation is
but I'm allowed to use their nice big posh swimming pool which I may do in the morning
because tonight my first order of business, because I haven't eaten since breakfast apart from
some snack items, is to get some food and then get some sleep
So come on, let's let's get out find something to eat, oh how do I get out? how do I get out? oh
that's it okay don't fall off the balcony now, now where's the main road
hmm that's the posh looking resort there who's swimming pool I
can use, so that's nice, towels are at reception
is that a restaurant? Ah well
let's go get some food