Thursday, January 27, 2011

Good-bye Paradise

Koh Phangan is a great little island and Thong Nai Pan is a great little beach resort community. So why is it that after only two weeks, we’re itching to leave this perfect tropical “paradise”?

Could it be the heavy humidity and the constant dampness? Could it be the aggressively hungry mosquitoes hiding in the beautifully landscaped grounds of our cottage? Or the sand flies feasting on us as we tried to dine on the sand at beach restaurants? Could it be that we got tired of drinking Chang beer (and we haven’t been able to get our hands on a Guinness since we left Bangkok weeks ago)? Or maybe it’s because we’ve tried all the restaurants in the area worth eating at and got tired of ordering the same things over and over?

Whatever the reason, it was definitely time to move on. Like Europe, Asia has a ton of low-cost airlines flying all over the place, so we booked a flight to Chiang Mai with Nok Air for about $180 the day before we decided to leave. When we changed planes in Bangkok, we noticed another change: almost all the foreign tourists disappeared. This was a good sign. I think we’re back in Thailand again.

(See more pictures of Koh Phangan)

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