Phuket

Every­body has heard of Phuket, Thailand’s most famous beach des­ti­na­tion. Some remem­ber it because of the tsunami that hit the island in 2004 while other knows it because of its rep­u­ta­tion as a sex tourism center.

Phuket is dis­con­cert­ing at first glance: it no longer look like Thai­land, you could be any­where on earth.

Krabi, Ao Nang and Railay

One of Feng’s legs was rest­ing over my left knee, his feet were on the dash­board, and I had one arm around his waist, another above his leg. Pic­ture a Kamasutra-esque posi­tion with­out the honey-get-your-clothes-off bit. That’s what it took for the two of us to fit on the pas­sen­ger seat.

Ko Phi Phi Ley

Ko Phi Phi Ley, Phi Phi Don’s lit­tle sis­ter, is a pop­u­lar day-trip once your hang­over is over. Pretty much all of the travel agen­cies in town sell a half-day boat trip to the small island for 250 baht (about $8). Still curi­ous to see why peo­ple liked the area so much, we signed up for it.

Ko Phi Phi Don

We had heard a lot about it. Ko Phi Phi (yes, it’s pro­nounced “pee-pee”!) has the best beach in Thai­land, it’s a must-stop etc. Well, what we found there was very dif­fer­ent from what we were expecting.

Ko Lanta

If you feel an irre­sistible need to read Tom Clancy while burn­ing under the sun, wear a Speedo swim­suit and yell in some Scan­di­na­vian lan­guage, be mas­saged by young Thai girls, show off your bad-ass tat­toos and lis­ten to Scor­pi­ons while on hol­i­days, you came to the right place. Ko Lanta has all of the above.

Trang Islands

Leav­ing Ko Muk was an unex­pected long jour­ney, but cer­tainly one of the most beau­ti­ful one I made.

Ko Muk

Ko Muk is every­thing you could dream of. Palm trees? Checked. Pris­tine water? Checked. White pow­dery sand? Checked. Throw in pic­turesque Thai long-boats (the main form of trans­porta­tion around here) and you feel like you stepped into a postcard.

The Thai Adventure

My motto has always been “travel the world, take pic­tures, eat choco­late”, but I’m strongly con­sid­er­ing chang­ing it for “you haven’t lived till you’ve taken a bus that runs out of gas in the mid­dle of the freeway”.