THAILAND TRAVELS: A Journal
PATTAYA (cont'd) & KOH LARN Page 17
Sunday 20th October 2013: Morning: I was thinking about a pop down to one of the local swimming-pools which are attached to most condos... but alas thinking about it was as far as I got as apathy set in.
Drove down to Beach Road and decided on a walk along the palm-tree lined 'promenade'. Carried on down to and then along Walking Street with the intention of climbing up to The Lookout at the far end at the Port. But we decided it was just too hot to attempt it so strolled back to Pattaya Tai and dropped into a coffee shop for an iced cappuccino.
Dropped into our usual shop for a massage; opted for a head-and-shoulders option today... very good.
Sunday night: One of Aom's cousins, Yuee, joined us for dinner at an unusual eatery. It's essentially a buffet whereby you help yourself to the huge choice of every thing. The difference with this place is that every table has a charcoal burner on it. Some of the food choices include raw fish, meats and vegetables which you cook yourself at your table [photo]. I opted for a huge self-served salad.
- Aom and cousin Yuee dining at the eatery described above. Those crabs you have to cook yourself and they ate these after having their dessert ice-creams. Thai ladies have hollow legs I reckon.
Monday 21st: Up early, bought some H2O and snacks from the 7-11 and we drove/biked down to Pattaya Port and the ferry terminal. Boarded the ferry to Koh Larn (koh or ko is Thai for island) around 09:20.
KOH LARN: is located about 7km off the coast of Pattaya. The Island is about 4km long and 2km wide and at it is about 180 meters high at the highest point. The terrain is mostly mountainous which is covered in most part with heavy vegetation. Infrastructure is mainly narrow roadways surfaced with block paving. Some of the roadways are very steep with numerous hairpin bends and only wide enough for two motorbikes to pass by each other, but most roads are suitable for regular traffic.
Easy crossing to Koh Larn but the ferry we wanted which would have taken us to the far side of the island to Tawaen Cove/Beach didn't appear to be available. So we boarded a different one which took us to the main landing on the island.
All this meant that we'd have to jump a motorbike taxi to the cove and beach we've been to before in November 2012 and March 2013. Usual hairy taxi-bike ride but got there in about 15 minutes.
Spent the day doing beachy type things like dossing, swimming, dossing, swimming, dossing and then some pretty good snorkelling between around the coral bits offshore. Great stuff!
Caught the 16:00 ferry direct from Tawaen (they were running again) back to Pattaya.
