We spent the last week of our travels on Koh Chang island in the Andaman Sea before heading towards Bangkok.
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| Our bungalow for $10 a night called Nature View |
We head back to the United States next. After having traveled an estimated 3,482 miles overland not including flights since our arrival in Southeast Asia four months ago we thought it might be fun to show a post about the various travel methods and vehicles.
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| Overnight train |
Similan and Surin Islands, Thailand
Merry Christmas to us! We decided to take care of Christmas presents to each other here in Asia and we decided it would be a liveaboard dive boat trip for four nights with four dives a day. Khao Lak was the stepping off point for most of the trips. We checked in at our shop, geared up, loaded in the taxis (16 of us) and headed to the pier.
It was a really enjoyable experience and we would certainly sign up to do another one. Really great diving, good food and a truly casual and fun time diving all day long and relaxing in between with everything taken care of. One of the highlight dives was at Richelieu Rock which was "discovered" by Jacques Cousteau in 1988 and was determined to be one of his top ten dive sites in the world. He arrived in the area and asked the local fisherman to take him to a place they catch lots of fish and thus discovered the rock pinnacle which rises 35 meters from the ocean floor and stops just below the surface.
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| Our hotel at sea |
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| The covered top deck |
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| The uncovered top deck |
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| The middle deck where we ate and had dive briefings |
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| Good morning calls at 6:30am for our first dive at 7:15am |
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| We had a BBQ one night and the charcoal needed a little more air! |
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| Not the Baths but the Similan Islands have the same geological makeup |
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