Happy Doing Nothing...

Koh Lanta is an often overlooked island on the backpacker circuit - and long may it stay that way! Only 2 hours fom Phi Phi, and with a population of just 20,000, Lanta is the perfect place to get away from it all and do nothing for a while. Kerri and I had planned to chill out there for a couple of days, but 2 days rapidly turned to 6 - it's just that kind of place.

Koh Lanta is beautiful - at least the 200 square metres we saw of it was! Our days were spent at our local beach bar reading, napping, eating and enjoying the occasional ice cold Chang. Our evenings were spent at a different bar a short walk down the beach watching films and, more importantly, the Spurs vs Charlton game. You can see why we didn't leave!

On our first night we went and got pissed, but the Thai whiskey didn't really agree with Kerri and she was pukey-Laver all along the beach on the walk home. Still, I didn't fare much better; we got back to our bungalow and I fell arse-over-tit through small palm tree in the process destroying several branches!

Kerri was still laughing as she tumbled off the bottom step and smashed through a water pipe at the edge of the path. As we got to our feet, water gushing everywhere, we realized that this bungalow wasn't even ours, and quickly ran off into the night, laughing hysterically! Good stuff that Sang Som.

Anyway, apart from reading the Da Vinci Code in 2 days flat, watching some real Thai boxing and having a painful encounter with a jellyfish, we literally did NOTHING (hence this post being shorter)! Eventually however, we got motivated (ie. ran out of books) and reluctantly packed our bags to leave for Krabi...