These night buses seem to be getting worse by the journey but seeing as we were to be lazing on the tropical island of Ko Pha-Ngan for the next two days I reckon I can forgive this gruellign trip. aftre getting off at the station we were approached by a very nice and very effeminate man called Tan, who had been working on the island for 16 years and assured us that everyone there knew him; it wasn't hard to imagine why. He offered us a hut on the beach for just 2 pounds each situated away from the mroe banging side of the island and aimed at the more romantic couple- well, that was obviously us and with such a cheap deal and such a likeable guy we accepted.
We still had two hours to wait for a bus to take us to the boat and somehow within minutes we manged to fall asleep on our hard plastic chairs in the middle of the busy bus station. Every time i woke up I noticed the patch of dribble on y T shirt doubling in size and hoped that nobody else had, especialy whilst I wiped away the long thick stream hanging from my beard.
One bus, boat and slightly airy taxi ride later we arrived to our resort at Haad Gruud and a quick walk around confirmed that we had blagged an amazing deal! Our 4 pounds had landed us with not only a lovely shack with en suite but also a private white sand beach, an infinity pool, a tasty filled menu in a chilled out restaurant complete with hammocks tied to palm trees and a killer view out to sea. to top t all there was a serious lack of other people staying there; this really was paradise! It wasn't long before we hit the absolutely scorching sand to soak up the sun. There was only one other person on the beach who left soon after we arrived and we instantly knew there was no point exploring the rest of the island, we had everything we had come for right here. The day had moved from beach, to pool, to deck chairs watching one of our best sunsets ever. We followed it up with some realy powerful cocktails and a huge Thai curry sat outside with the waves gently breaking in front of us.
The next day we couldn't find a better plan than to do it all again. Breakfast, pool, beach, pool with a slight difference when we walked to a cash point and a lookat an alternate beach which whilst bigger was more crowded and a little dirtier, not nearly as good as ours! Later we encontered our only slight niggle in the shape of a rather loud and even more crude Austarlian woman and her quieter yet equally charismatic husband with beer belly and tattoed head. Her stories of touching up the owner's wife's boobs and being chucked off a plane for being too drnk amused us for a while, but we kept telling ourselves when we had to move on that it would have started to grate had we stayed longer. As evening came we bought tickets to take us across Thailand to Ko Phi Phi. From what a few girls had told us it was going to be even more beautiful tehre, ooh yes please!
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