Koh Lanta

The crossing was pretty long because we had to drop some people first on another island. It took a bit more than 3 hours. It was dark and rainy when we arrived, the ground a bit muddy and pretty hot. Cynthia had booked one night in a hostel so we just had to take a Tuk-Tuk and head there. We were thinking to spend the day after exploring the island and finding another hostel. Our Tuk-Tuk driver was actually a 4X4 driver and was owning disc or French rap. We didn't the artist at all, but the story is cool, a french guy who traveled there two years before us gave him this disc as a gift. This guy also made it a lot easier for us to communicate with that guy.

Our hostel was pretty fancy, most of the time houses are made out of wood on the sand. If you get an outside bar and a swimming pool even if the ocean is 25 meters away, that me it"s a fancy hostel. We just decided to eat at the hostel and order some local food. The view was sick and the atmosphere really chill. The rain had stopped and the clouds almost away was letting the sun goest through. I order a pineapple fried rice with shrimps. It actually comes in half a pineapple they dug and its delicious. We spent all our night here talking a bit, it was a long time since the last time I saw these two. We order drinks all night in order to get to all the topics we should share with the others, you know. We didn't reach the end that night and decided to go to bed early enough to have a great tomorrow.

We woke up pretty early, asked the guy if we could leave ours big bags there and just go around. Of course, he said yes, everywhere in Thailand you can do that. People always keep your bags, sometimes you even have a locked rooms just to keep traveller's bags. We rent two scooters for the day and that was actually pretty funny. To be honest, it was the first time we ever drove a scooter or a motorbike in our life. I've handled it pretty quick but Matthieu not really and Cynthia finally decided to come with me on the scooter at first. At some point Cynthia wanted to try so Matthieu was with me and we were just exploring the island that way for now. Going a bit deeper in the forest.

In the morning we have been looking up online what to see on the island and we found that there is a waterfall in the middle of the jungle, so we decided to head towards and have a swim there.

We found the tracks going to the waterfall and understood that we will take us a hour or so to reach the waterfall but anyway that was exciting to just walk through the jungle. Before leaving, I was planning on doing treks, so a little walk in the jungle couldn't be that bad. We found it in less than a hour and it was worth it. For a first waterfall, that one was a pretty cool one. More than 5 meter high with a big torrent but still a nice pool to swim.

We had a swim and stayed there for a couple of hours, headed back to the hostel, grabbed ours bags and left walking on the beach looking for another hostel to spend the night. We had seen some bamboo bungalow pretty cool the other day and we wanted to find it back and ask for a room. Once arrived the hostel was completely empty. We didn't see any other tourist on the island so far, because of the rainy season for sure. So we decided to have local food again and went to the bar of the hostel.

Here the funny story starts. The bar was made out of bamboo and other kind of wood, the whole on the beach. The summer bar was on construction and our barmaid was the bricklayer as well. We were ordering food and beers when he asked us with we wanted also "stuff" like mushrooms and weed. We was smoking some in a little bamboo leaf which is just the way all local smoke marijuana in Asia. We decided to take some weed and even tried the way they do it. Bamboo leaves tasted weird. We spent the night there talking, getting drunk and stoned just the three of us and that funny bricklayer barmaid in Koh Lanta.

The day after was leaving day so we slept late to recover and stayed on the beach until the boat came. We were leaving for Koh Phi Phi, that famous island for it's beauty and it's bay. The movie "The beach" with Leornardo Di Caprio has been recorded there. Camille, a friend of Cynthia and Matthieu from Singapore was also joining us there for few days.