Ko Phayam

Spent the past 4 nights at the most picturesque beach I have ever seen in my life. I didn’t think beaches so noncommercial and empty still existed in the world! But we found one in Southern Thailand. We took a 2 hour ferry ride to the island, then to get to our bungalows you have to take a 10 minute motorbike ride because the island doesn’t have any cars on it. The beach has about 5 different bungalow resorts (for lack of a better word because I won’t call a place with no hotwater and no AC a resort!) But our bungalow was really cute, and we had tons of “friends” living there with us- everyday without fail we had a new frog inside our room or outside in our bathroom (oh yeah, also don’t call places with open air bathrooms a resort) On our front porch we saw a snake, a huge hermit crab and a big lizard! The beach was great, so quiet, many times Michael and I were the only ones on the whole beach!

And the beach had tons of crabs- hermit crabs were everywhere as well as tiny and medium size regular crabs (see flickr for pics). We pretty much chilled out big time- reading/napping in the hammocks, drinking fruit shakes, walking the beach and drinking beers and watching the sunset.

Tonight we are in Ao Nang, pretty touristy little beach in way Southern Thailand (south of Phuket), tomorrow we take 2 boats to another island called Railey to go to a Full Moon Festival party. Internet access will be limited once we are on the island. Loving life in Thailand!!!