vendredi 14 novembre 2008

10 days holliday

I have a visa to stay 6 months in Thailand but I am supposed to go at the border to get an extension every 3 months. An other solution, as I am student is to go to the Immigration Office in Bangkok and pay 2,000 Bath...

As always, I was so well organised that I forgot to plan a trip abroad before the expiration of my 3 first months :(
The plan was to go to spend 10 days in the Adaman sea and I didn't feel like organising a trip to Cambodia or Laos for one week end instead ... so I paid !! That's amazing how it is really possible to buy everything in Thailand ...

Officially (for the professor) I was in a trip abroad for my visa extension, but eventually we stick to the plan and went to Adaman Sea for 10 days :)

Krabi and Railay 2 days
Ko Lanta 5 days
Ko Phi Phi 2 days

I have more than 500 photos to make you jealous but here is a selection ;)


But it was not as perfect as it looks like and I have learnt a lot during those 10 days:

- first lesson learnt - never ever let your laptop bag open during two days in a bamboo bungalow ... I indeed discovered that ants love computers !
I noticed after two days that my bag was full of ants, I took my computer out but it was fine, there was only a few of them on it... but after a few hours, there was still a few of them going around my Wind (my computer) and Frank the NERD told me that we should open it... He opened it and it was ok there was only a few of them and I was releaved, but Frank was sceptical (German ;)!) and wanted to took the hardware out to see under it ... and then it was the drama !



- second lesson learnt, travel guides are bullshit ! They describe Ko lanta and Ko Phi Phi the same way "nice island, cool for swimming and snorkling ..." but the two island have nothing in common, Ko Lanta is cheap and quiet, while Ko Phi Phi is awfully expensive and full of tourists ...
For the same price, here are the view we had from our room in Ko Lanta (first picture) and in Ko Phi Phi (second picture)




- third lesson learnt - exchange program are a very good idea ;) and the easter the country the better ;)

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