Ko Lanta is one of the bigger islands on the west coast - so we had hundreds of sleeping options. And as always when there is too much choice, we just couldn't decide which beach to go to. Finally we listened to our dive shop's advice and went to the long beach (seems that every island here has one).
What a good decision this was. We landed on the best beach we had so far on this trip. It had it all - nice sand, cocktail bar, fantastic BBQ. And to top it all, we had a fantastic room right on the beach at one of cheapest rates in Thailand (6,5 eur).
While we stayed here we celebrated two holidays. One Thai and one Slovenian. On 11.Nov we celebrated St. Martin - a day when grape juice becomes wine (just another excuse to buy some of the expensive vino). The next day, still a bit groggy we celebrated Loy Kraton. This is a Thai festival where People float little containers with a candle, joss sticks and a coin to thank the river goddess and get rid of their past year's sins. Our float kept coming back to the Beach, but committed to get rid of our sins we swam far our from the beach and pushed the flotilla into open sea and said bye, bye to our sins.
We even managed some diving between all this action. Our dive guide had an amazing eye to find obscure fish species. Add some Leopard sharks to the mix and we really didn't feel like laving. We loved it soooo much that we stayed for 11 days. Again (seems this is happening often in Thailand), it was hard to say good buy to Ko Lanta...
Some more pictures here.
4 comments:
looks like Nov is celebration month all around the world. in poland we have independence day at 11th. but next year after saluting to our anthem will also drink few bottles of wino, just to celebrate various cultures.
so you are saying, sea didn't want to take all your sins easily... you could try dejan's in the morning, nives' afternoon, it would swallow without hiccup. and are you sure, it counts and it's permitted to swim deep and push it strongly? if it doesn't want to take, it doesn't want it, that's some hint.
so not even the ocean can stand up to Nives' determination to make things happen :)
Hey where are you guys?? Have any of the protests affected you? Drop a note to let us know you're okay.
Hey where are you now? Is any problems in Thailand or what? The pictures are incredible.
In Slovenia is snowing and rainig, and like all years you are invited in may brhsdej party on 13.12. This year will bi a little difficulty, but any wey.......enjoy
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