So we leave Koh Pang-an by ferry with a rather random boat change at Ko Samoi. You walk a gang plank between boats in amongst pandemonium. We hoped every one got on board because there was little direction or communication, the westerners figure it out as we go along! From the ferry we are squeezed in to a minibus (people carrier size!) and start the journey towards Krabi. A 3 hour journey if you are doing 80mph was completed in time, not to our amusement....Again we are dropped at another random location, another sticker attached and wait. We jump on board another minibus and are dropped off at our new pad 'The Mild Bungalow'. We were greeted with warmth by the family, checked in and booked our excursions - a cookery course ( somehow I would like to eat something Thai without the threat of death)... I (Sarah) have a severe nut and white fish allergy, intolerance of fish, coconut and a huge dislike of tofu, ginger, papaya and lemon grass. They appear to cook everything in nut oil or fish sauce and I keep finding random cashew nuts in things!!! - a boat day trip to the islands. We then explore, we walk the 5 minutes to beach and town and suss out the place, eat and then head back towards the bungalow. As we go to turn in a man across the way who is dancing to Bob Marley songs calls us over to his bar, 'The lazy Bar' ,his name was Bob. To cut a long story short we then spent most evenings at the bar being Lazy!! The next day we spent it with Rah (Bobs brother see pics) and yep you guessed it we spent the day being lazy (sort of, well chillaxing anyway). We climbed into his very comfy old Merc and headed end off to see the Thailand Rah wanted us to see....... We visited the Tiger Temples ( not the headline stuff no Tigers were harmed in the viewing of this temple!!), stopped at the street food places, visited the national park and chilled by the waterfall ending with a Tour round Krabi and the old town.....Nice.
The island trip (see individual blog) cookery course and a day by the pool completed our Krabi adventure. The upshot is i did get to make something to eat, sweet and sour chicken and we cannot recommend the course enough. A lovely young man taught us and once again as we are travelling in the 'No season' it was a private course just the two of us! Louise's spring rolls smashed it and we took the remains to Bob who critiqued later.......now to start the journey towards Cambodia. You may have noticed we have gone north to go south to go north again in Thailand, this happened kind of by default but the beauty is we ended up being in the jungle for Louise's birthday, not the full moon party in Koh pang an ( we really are not that young anymore!) and we really could not have been more blessed weather wise.