Phangan
tall palm trees bend in the wind, to move around the island, take a jeep rental. There are no large settlements, and the houses are built so that they were not above the palm trees. Tourists are not so much, and you can choose a place where there are none. Settle on the beach "Sunrise" - and watch the magnificent sunrises over the Gulf of Siam, and if you - an owl, then the beach, "Sunset," to enjoy the sun, which fades to the background of the burning clouds. It's so beautiful that aches the heart. We live in a Resort "Milky Bay" - "Dairy Gulf." Every night the owner makes a tray of hundreds of microscopic kerosene lamps and puts them in the grass along the tracks - this evening, the atmosphere is very warm, family-owned. The island of Phangan is located a great place for diving - Reef Sail Rock, a rock in the sea. Here I first dive. The sun's rays penetrate the water, even at a depth of 18 meters. The boat is on the way back to preparing for the exam on the diver. Angel fish - yellow with black stripes, moray-cotta, slope - the blue speckled, and gray reef sharks do not attack people. ($ 300 per course, which includes four dive if you have no identity - dive to $ 20 for one! And the best diving).
Fever travel drives us forward. If each new island more beautiful than the previous one - then what will happen next?
Krabi Province
mecca of climbing. Few places in the world find such favorable conditions: here you and the gentle ocean, and then the red cliffs. We took an excursion in a canoe in a "lost world" - the section of the jungle, inaccessible by land, which can be accessed only by boat through a suite of stalactite caves deep in the rock.
I almost forgot about Thai massage! There are a few of its varieties, from classic to massage with aromatic oils. Skin after it - just velvet ($ 7 per hour).
Island Pee Pee Don
I understand Europeans who left their comfortable homes in affluent Britain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and settled in Thailand in the stalls, where, besides the bed and the fan did not. My thoughts are very scare me: stay here! Live - cheap, start your own business - just. Internet - at every step, I can work online, or be an instructor in diving, or ... Magic Asia insidious and powerful. I could hardly resist the spell.Take a tour
on a motor yacht ($ 150 for 8 hours), which includes a visit to the islands Pi Pi Le, National Wildlife Refuge. It was here filming some scenes the movie "The Beach". Summer taets, the owner of the yacht, deliver us to a secluded lagoon, smiling produces the mask and tube "snorkly" and we are going down a ladder, plunge into the emerald water. Taets throws water in bread. In a moment all around us this boils soup colored fish that raced grab crumbs right before our - enhanced the glass mask - eyes. Pink, blue, black, turquoise, silver, yellow fish, parrot fish, squirrel, fish-eating bats are fast disappearing, and bread: underwater audible hum - it came another boat.
Monkey Beach
Monkeys eat straight from the hands and drink water from plastic bottles brought by tourists. On the yacht eating pineapple, they are incredibly sweet and cheap (2 hryvnia piece of our money).
Island Bamba
Also
reserved. Here we stay until the evening, because no force is able to get off this beauty. Such white sand and a water color will not see anywhere else. The coral reef is only ten meters from the shore at a depth of no more than three meters. To watch the fish, corals, sponges and anemones, do not need scuba gear, enough "snorkla." It is true that such proximity without a suit for diving a bit risky: you can easily come to a hedgehog or a chance to touch the lion-fish. They leave the skin their needles. They say it hurts, and the wound can become inflamed. Finally, the Thais can not drive us back to the boat. He excitedly points to the purple horizon: coming storm. Tomorrow plane of the local airlines are returning to Bangkok.
I would like to visit the north, where the border with Myanmar tribe lives, women who are on long metal rings around their necks, where you can buy stunning, handmade silverware, where pristine jungle lost city, which for thousands of years, but we'll do it next time. Because no one is in Thailand once. Everybody wants to go back there again.