After breakfast we ignored the offers of taxis every 20ft and decided to walk based on a faith that the places wasn't that far. It appears that people in Thailand don't like walking, in fact a moped gets used for journies from 20km to 20m, and mopeds are used to carry anything from 11 members of your extended family, to bridge supports and construction materials. Helmets aren't required, but then, neither is a test. They are treated like bicycles that need no effort.
We decided that we weren't going to slum it, we had 5 days booked on Koh Phangang in a 12 room hostel, so for 2 nights we could afford to have a nice place. We shopped around till we met the Koh Tao's answer to P Diddy. He showed us a cheap room, that "smelled" and then there was the more expensive "no smell" room. We asked if there was a better room and for the equivalent of £20 each we could have something looking like the honeymoon suite. We 'ummed' and 'arred' till he said that the only other rooms being used on the floor was by 10 Swedish women. Knowing we were being duped we threw our money at him and got the room for two nights. It was right on the beach, views of the sea, mountains, an air conditioning unit that could freeze a polar bear and a communal balcony that would provide great views of the sunsets. We grabbed a beer and sat on the balcony and had our board meeting. Slowly the Swedish turned up and after a chat involving the usual travelling questions 1) Where are you from ? 2) How long have you been here ? 3) How long are you travelling for ? They highly recommended we went to the Cabaret night a mimed show that is performed by Thai lady boys. It sounded like fun, and was free to enter. I'll include some pictures, And let you make up your own mind about how the night went.
We decided that we weren't going to slum it, we had 5 days booked on Koh Phangang in a 12 room hostel, so for 2 nights we could afford to have a nice place. We shopped around till we met the Koh Tao's answer to P Diddy. He showed us a cheap room, that "smelled" and then there was the more expensive "no smell" room. We asked if there was a better room and for the equivalent of £20 each we could have something looking like the honeymoon suite. We 'ummed' and 'arred' till he said that the only other rooms being used on the floor was by 10 Swedish women. Knowing we were being duped we threw our money at him and got the room for two nights. It was right on the beach, views of the sea, mountains, an air conditioning unit that could freeze a polar bear and a communal balcony that would provide great views of the sunsets. We grabbed a beer and sat on the balcony and had our board meeting. Slowly the Swedish turned up and after a chat involving the usual travelling questions 1) Where are you from ? 2) How long have you been here ? 3) How long are you travelling for ? They highly recommended we went to the Cabaret night a mimed show that is performed by Thai lady boys. It sounded like fun, and was free to enter. I'll include some pictures, And let you make up your own mind about how the night went.
Sameep, Frank, Mileage and Madam Blam respectively.
The boys in action
One of the singers
The Swedish birds
Sameep and I bored.
This is a picture of the best looking women there.
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