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Phi Phi Island (Thailand Travel Diary #14)
God must have been watering his garden above Ao Nang because it BUCKETED down with rain! I could barely walk with my concrete calves after the sky temple pilgrimage, so I was more than happy to order food and chill. I wrote a quick review for the Krabi Forest Homestay:
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Learning to Frog (Thailand Travel Diary #15)
I decided to get my advanced scuba diving qualification while in coastal Thailand! This involves 5 dives over two days. I had a 40-year-old-ish French instructor all to myself named Agatha, who has dived all over the watery globe. The visibility underwater wasn’t great, but I always love it nonetheless.
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Getting Inked! (Thailand Travel Diary #16)
Google Maps doesn’t seem to know that Phi Phi exists. What was supposed to be a 45-minute walk to one of the better (and quieter) beaches, took me on a 2-hour adventure through the jungle, construction sites, and some very fancy resorts. This mostly resulted in dead-ends, 4 liters of
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Muay Thai Beating! (Thailand Travel Diary #17)
I took my friend to the Muay Thai place on Phi Phi. The battles between the professionals are fierce, but their main sales-pitch is to get people from the crowd to volunteer. I thought I would never get this unique and scary opportunity again, so I asked a stranger if
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Persian Dancing (Thailand Travel Diary #18)
I was meant to meet an old friend from Taiwan, but his wife was covered in a nasty rash so he stayed by her side. There were reports of Covid making a comeback among the Cape Town gang and I had caught the dreaded lergie (a cold). I spent two
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Khoa Sok (Thailand Travel Diary #19)
A 3-hour bus ride north from Ao Nang brought me to Khoa Sok – a welcomed, bushy change of scenery. A different type of tourist can be found there – mostly older couples, families, and stoners. I was surrounded by shrubbery and could probably have foraged for my own food
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Then I Was Totally Alone (Thailand Diary #20)
Khao Sok National Park covers an area of 739 km². The Park is the largest area of virgin forest in southern Thailand and is a remnant of rain forest which is older and more diverse than the Amazon rain forest (Wikipedia, 2023). You can hire a guide for 1500 Bhat
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