Seesea Travel Blog

Travel Location: Asia,Thailand,South-West-Thailand,Ko-Lanta

As soon as I got in Ko Lanta I felt better, it is just ridiculously chilled there. Its mainly shabby jungle patches and you arrive into the fishing port of loads of restaurants over the sea. It is quite beautiful. Luckily the girls had already gone over to get a room and I was travelling with this Irish guy called Brendan so we literally met a guy off the boat to pick us up and then I think I pased out for about 6hours. The room between three was 100 baht each which is 2quid and it was this beautiful bungalow you could see the sun going down though the trees with. Ko Lanta is really big but there is so much space and such poor infrastructure you need mopeds to get around and where I was so ill I just wanted to hang by the beach at first.

There are ramshackle restaurants that line the main beach ‘Long Beach’ and for the first three nights we sat and sunbathed on the beach and went to the restaurants to eat fresh fish that we saw them haul in every day. It was idyllic. Brendan had good potato banter as well so basically conformed to the stereotyping of an Irishman. After three days you do get a bit Cabin Fevery on the island though and so the girls headed to Ko Tao as Becci only had a week left and Brendan had to get his flight back in Bangkok. This left me with a guy called Sam who kind of reminded me of the sick kid ouyt of the Simpsons that always looks like he was going to throw up.

So…Sam and I decide to head to Railay Bay to do more stuff and got the ferry there early. By this point I alredy realised he was going to do my head in as he would veer off and be ridiculously quiet and had a penchant of only eating chicken sandwiches and wanted everything to be clean and just so.

We got to Railay and when you arrive on ferry it really takes your breath away because of its setting in limestone cliffs and all you see are low lying palm trees. You then realise that the beautiful beach (Hat Rai Lei West) is mainly a resort and the cheaper accomodtion is on Hat Rei Lei East which is about 10mins away. We ended up staying at Anyavee for 100baht between two and it really was lush (hot water, fridge, TV right by Diamond Caves) It was cloudy so we decided to go and explore and went to the Diamond Caves which are illuminated and beautiful and then headed to trek up the infamous viewpoint, Now the viewpoint is vertical and Sam quickly decided he wanted to sty and play his ping pong game on his I-Phone (literally doing my head in) I met this Canadian guy called JJ and so he helped me up there, barefoot I might add. The view was astounding and JJ proved to be a storyteller and grew up in Utah with all of the profesioal BMX bikers. Then we headed to Princess Cove which is basically a shrine of hand carved cocks of all shapes and sizes. Theres even a pile of relegated cocks that didnt make the cut.

Sam left and I watched the sun go down with JJ and then headed back to the room only to find him switching all of the lights on and off repeatedly. This made me think he had OCD and this was further proven by him taking all of his stuff out of his bag and smoothing it with the back of his hands repeatedly too.

The weirdness exacerbated when he went down to the beach three hours after me the next day and when we went out for cocktails and he got pissed he explained that e had got so turned on by all of the guys on the beach (he’s gay) that he had to masturbate for awhile. WHAT THE FUCK?????????

We met an old skool backpacker in Railay called ‘T’ who had gone insane through drugs and was balancing bottles in the bar and just kept spontaneously laughing when he spoke to you. He was telling us of the glory days of when in 1988 there was nothing on the island and so they’d organise a few crazy parties now and again. Now its a package holiday destination really. However if you go past Sunrise resort (you think the beach ends there but it doesnt keep walking) there are some really good thai restaurants at the back that are so cheap and lush.

CONCLUSION: KO Lanta is amazingly chilled out and is wicked for three days but you need to be able to hire a moped to see the island for what it is and go to the National Park etc. Railay is beautiful but it is expensive and there us no night life apart from the Stone Bar which I loved, its really trippy and well located up a hill.

Im now off…with Sam in tow (shit) to Ko Phagn Nan for Full Moon madness and some big nights to meet the girls again too.