Day 16: Oh the Beaches.....

Day 16:

Oh the Beaches of Thailand... Today was spent at the beaches of Thailand. Had a much need rest after being on the go for three weeks. Most of the beaches were nice, except some of them were too touristy. The last one was called 'Bamboo Island' it was beautiful, the water was an emerald green and you can see right through the water at the coral. The beaches are located on the Andaman Sea, which is to the left of Thailand. The islands in southern Thailand are beautiful. We went snorkeling and hung out on the beach. Even went to 'Maya' beach which is where the movie 'The Beach' is filmed. Ended the boat tour watching the sunset....

Met two French gals and a couple of Irish girls, one of the French girls her family is from Algeria, she was telling me alot of the Algerians that came over, came over in the 70's to build cars in france, most of them live towards the German border. The Irish girls, who I met at dinner, told me of a place called 'Raheny', close to my name and they said even accents are quite different in the different counties of Ireland that some of the Irish can't even undertand each other, I didn't feel so bad as I had mistakenly identifed them as Aussie. I am still trying to decipher all the english speaking accents, hope to accomplish that by the end of my trip. It was nice to meet the Irish girls, they are in their mid 20's and so excited about traveling the world. It's nice to be around that excitment when you feel that sometimes it would be nice to have home cooked meal and sleep in your own bed.

In Kho Phi Phi there is even a 7/11 here. One of the French girls Marie and I went out after dinner (Papaya, great Thai food), we went to go see the Fire Show at a local bars. At night the island is all lit up with x-mas lights. Very interesting the people in the show they hold two rope (it's obviously made out of some other material, but don't know what) looking things in their hand and they throw it around, it was pretty amazing. Then we sat by the water and had a Thai pancake, which is similar to a crepe, the crepe is thicker and they put the fruit inside and the nutella outside, had an interesting conversation about my trip to Cambodia, I was telling her that I got a lot out of going there, more of an appreciation of the simple things in life and then we were discussing how we need to have a more complicated life in order to have a more simple life, we can't get to the simple things in life unless we get through the complicated parts of life, I guess it goes hand in hand......