There are 2 Islands of Kho Yao and we stayed on ‘Kho Yao Noi’ right on the beach in individual bamboo huts on stilts. My hut all to myself had a double bed, bathroom, mosquito nets and curtains with doors opening from the bedroom to the verandah where I could chose from a deckchair or a futon style bench whilst listening to the swish of the coconut palms broken by the gentle crash of the waves only 100m away – heaven! I swam in the sea on arrival, the only other prescence being the local fishing boats, some kids playing volleyball and the scooters whizzing along the narrow concrete road skirting the coastline, it felt like only a handful of people live here, quite different from the crowded resorts of Krabi and a million miles from Bangkok! The peace and quiet was perfect and I spent a few hours just snoozing (battling a slight headcold) before joining the group for dinner overlooking the beach provided by our hosts. After dinner, a few of us moved to the ‘bar’ a few bamboo stools on the sand across from the beach, for drinks (Chang Beer) and guitar music provided by our host. Feeling in need of some liquid medicine I chose some local brandy (Regency) followed by local whisky and local rum. Well… it was medicinal! A local holiday maker passed by and joined in the music providing folk songs for an hour or to and by midnight, with almost all the rum gone and a half bottle of brandy inside me I staggered to my hut for some sleep. The next day I had no hangover amazingly! We boarded a fishing boat with our bartender (also not hungover) and did a tour of local islands for more snorkelling and such. The scenery here is awesome, the fish colourful and the beaches are white sandy curves of paradise (it’s just a shame that there is a lot of debris and litter, some of it hazardous like glass and rusty nails). Lunch of Chicken fried rice on a secluded beach all to ourselves just doesn’t get any better followed by more snorkelling and dodging large pink jellyfish who in turn were dodging the nets of local fisherman catching them for the chinese market as a delicacy. By evening I was tired by happy after 2 days in paradise – walking the beach at sunset will be a memory to draw on in the midst of an English winter. Supper that night was a seafood BBQ prepared by our hosts and it tasted great but my appetite was off (maybe the cold or the hangover finally kicking in?) either way, I was asleep by 9pm…
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