So we packed up our stuff and made the trek down to the boats, after enjoying some sticky rice breakfast. It wasn’t as good as the crazy ladies, but they weren’t open yet, so we had to make do. Got a long tail boat to Ao Nang, then took a sidecar motorcycle taxi to THE Macdonald’s in Ao Nang. We were about an hour early, so we used the internet and had some ice cream - which was dipped - yummmm!!!
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| Skarkzuka!!! |
Then we waited until 11:00 and no one showed up. Then we waited until 11:15 and no one showed up. Then we waited until 11:30 and there was another couple going to the airport and the place where we were supposed to meet the big bus at 12:30 was KBV, which was the same call letters as the airport so we paid 300 baht to try and catch the bus at KBV, which had to be the airport. During a very anxious bus ride, we made it to the airport with ten minutes to spare, we asked the bus driver to drop us off at the Lotus bus station, which was written on his bus and then he said it was right in front of the airport by the highway.
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| Waiting in Macdonald's |
So we are waiting for our “big bus” on the side of the highway and we are waiting and ten minutes go by, then fifteen minutes go by and almost a half an hour goes by and we decided that we were lost and weren’t going to make it to the bus. We also needed to get to Samui by the next day to go on our elephant trekking excursion, because we had already paid for it. So it was pretty brutal. I tried to use the Airport security guards phone, but it had no battery. He said that there is a bus station 12kms into Krabi, but it didn’t make much of a difference because the bus would have left already.
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| Waiting by the highway near the airport |
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| Walking up to the airport from the highway |
So we pulled up our bags and start the kilometer walk uphill back to the airport again with our 70lbs each of luggage. Once we got to the airport another set of airport guards suggested that we could get a private car to Donsak Pier for 3000 baht. These guards had a working cell phone, so I called the lady that gave us the ticket, Tang was her name, but Tang wasn’t there and only the incompetent girl that made us wait for Tang the first time we were there was available. She wasn’t very helpful other than saying we needed to call back in an hour. So we had a decision to make either foot the 3000 baht to try to make it to the ferry, then see if our ticket worked there or try to find a flight. The guards called the car and I went to go get some cash, but on my way to the ATM, I decided to check with the airlines to see if there was a flight and see how much it would cost. I checked with Air Asia, but they didn’t have any flights, then I went to another air line and no flights there either, finally I went to Bangkok Airways and they had a flight that was boarding in 10 minutes. She said that we could fly standby and that I should come back in 10 minutes to see if the other passengers had checked in. It was going to be 2600 baht per person for the flight, which now that we are thinking in Thai dollars we thought was a lot (85 CAD), but we didn’t want to take a chance on not being able to make our excursion that we had already paid for, and chance that our ticket on the Ferry might not work and also take a 3 hour taxi ride and then a 2 hour ferry ride. So, I told her to put us on the list and I dilly dallied on my way to get money from the ATM. I told Cami my plan and she was all for it, we stalled the private car for another five minutes and I went to go see if there was a standby seat available for us. When I got back to Bangkok airways, the lady said there were two seats available, but that we needed to get to the gate... like now. We paid the driver 100baht (3 bucks) for coming and for us ditching on her and we ran to check our bags and get to our gate. We made the gate and walked out to our plane in relief. Crazy day.
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| Getting on the plane - Wahoo! |
The flight was uneventful, which is typically good for flights, and we touched down in Ko Samui forty-five minutes later.
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| On the plane! |
We checked into our hotel room, a quaint bungalow along bohput near fisherman’s village, and we spent the evening walking along the beach and weaving our way through shops. Everything in Fisherman’s village, a walking market, is really overpriced (practically western prices) so we walked along the beach and then we walked through the market, stopping to get our feet eaten by fish.
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| Ready to get eaten by the fish |
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| Fish Food |
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| More fish food |
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| Crazy clouds in Samui |
They have these places all over in Thailand, where you put your feet in these tanks with small fish that eat all of the dead skin off of your feet and we hadn’t tried one yet, so we negotiated a price with the guy and took the plunge. They tickled our feet like crazy and they ate at my scabs from the rocks - gross!!! It was lots of fun. We continued on our way through the markets, then we wanted to find somewhere to eat and so we went away from the market and tried to find some cheap thai food. we walked all the way back to the market entrance and decided on a woman cooking for a taxi driver. I smelled what he was happening and I said that I would have what he was having. Really what he was having wasn’t that great and she gave me a lot less. So we continued on to a place that Cami liked better. It was French place called Ville D’Audet, but they served Thai food. - They have a lot more Europeans in Samui than other places - Anyway we had some Coconut Curry soup with rice and finished it off with some Fried Banana and Ice Cream. Cami asked if the Fried Banana came with Ice Cream and the girl just ordered it for us, but it turned out to be like 240 baht which was three times as much as the soup. Anyway, it still is only like 8 bucks, but when your soup and rice is 2.50, 8 bucks really ticks you off. So after filling our bellies we started walking back to the Hotel Room. Usually we don't stop for all of the massage ladies that yell at us "You Wan Masssaaaggeee Okkkkaaaaaaay," but this place in particular looked really nice and I negotiated a bargain for the two of us. I had the older lady, but I think she was the tougher one. She mashed me all over and folded me and pushed on me with her elbows, but when all was said and done, it felt really good and how can you say no to a massage for 8 bucks. Cami also thoroughly enjoyed hers. So after we were rejuvenated and massaged we walked back to our Hotel room and Cami watched her favorite movie channel while I fell asleep five minutes into the movie. THE END
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| You wan Maaasssaaage oooooookaaaay |
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