Lanta travellers paradise...

So after arguing about whether to spend an extra 80Bht (1 pound) on getting the ferry or get a minivan (save 80Bht) to Koh Lanta, we decided to be tight and save... and we were told the journey time was gonna be more or less the same "about 2 hours" and that it would be a "straight-forward ride, no changing" - bollocks! Our journey started on a five-minute truck ride, get out, move all lugguage to a big luxury coach. Then, for the next 45 mins on this coach, they tease us with a Bridget Jones DVD, and half-way through we're ushered off the coach again to move to a MINIVAN. Move all lugguage again. After 10 mins driving - stop outside a tour office. We wait for two extra people to squeeze into this 10-seater mini-van, which was already full, somehow the driver convinces the thai-boys sitting at the back of the van to move up and share 3 seats with 4 people. 2 hours into the journey, we arrive at a FERRY PORT (!!) -I'm told by this thai girl sitting next to me that it was gonna be ANOTHER 2 hours. We jump from one ferry port to another in this minivan (not literally "jump") and travel through unfinished roads, then we finally reach our destination - KOH LANTA.

I'm impressed, I was imagining this place to be buzzing with hippies and party people, but its actually really peaceful and soooo chilled out. Its almost like Amsterdam, but on a beach. The beach we stay at is lined with the odd bungalow resort and Amsterdam-coffee-shop-esque bars, playing raggae... so cool! The beach is beautiful, calm, with hardly anyone on it. For the next three days we spent life with NO TV (yeh, for once in this life), and just chilling on the beach. Night time, we lie under the stars drinking cocktails....and Kee has a new talent, he is now Kee the builder! Yes he can!