Many years ago I've been in Thailand. But this time I did not arrive at an airport. Still on Langkawi we went to the ferry terminal and immigration office. Getting the access right to Thailand was no problem at all and we chartered a speed boat to get to Koh Lipe, an island in the south or Thailand.
It did not take long to get from Langkawi to Koh Lipe, we enjoyed the ride in the front of the boat in the sun looking at the islands passing by.
Koh Lipe is one of the most touristic islands in Thailand, from some people I heard that about six years ago there were only fisherman's cottages and no tourists. Today there is no cottage left and one bar and hotel next to each other. Must have been an amazing place for the first foreigners coming here. Too bad that not only one cottage is still there.
For us it was rather good that the island changed, also when it too much changed, but we came to Thailand with only a few Malaysian Ringit in our pocket and in the past there for sure was no place where you can pay with credit card or get money from an atm.
After check in in our hotel, which was away from the beach and not to close to the walking street we went to the beach to jump into the water. Well a few words more about the hotel, it has nice small cottages and is located in the jungle and has a copper dragon for security.
When we arrived there it started raining, what did not stop us. The plan was to get wet and not to sit around and take a sunbath. After having enough we went to a bar to get dry and also found some other travelers to talk with. Also we got to enjoy the view of the rainy beach we got.
We stayed at the bar rather long and it was good that we did that. The rain stopped several minutes before sunset, so the view improved a lot and we got to see another beautiful sunset.
Our second day also started raining, at least the rain was not so strong that you become soaking wet within a minute, it was more drizzling the whole day.
Because we did not want to waste our time only in our cottage we walked along the walking street first and decided to get a Thai massage. Bernd felt asleep during the massage, so also for him it was very relaxing.
After that we explored the island and went to the other nice beaches. We did not go there the time you supposed to go there, but it was ok so. Otherwise we would have to wait till the early morning or evening.
Hours later, we spent most of the time of the day with walking along the beach, swimming and climbing on the rocks along the coast, we ended up at the beach we arrived and saw a big skull made out of sand. Bernd thought that pirates must be around and was frightened looking around, ready to run away when he would see one.
Because the weather seemed not to get better and you could not really do much on such a small island we left the next day and took a speed boat to get to Koh Lanta. We did not plan to go to too many islands so we passed by at all the islands. On the way up we could see the beauty of the islands, also with all the clouds and rain it was still beautiful.
Koh Lanta changed a lot since my last visit there, all around bars, restaurants, hotels, scooter rentals and so on.
The first thing I wanted to do there was showing Bernd the place I stayed with some friends years ago. With all the changes on the island I hoped that this one would still be the same. And it was. The cottages at the beach looked like in the past and also the restaurant on the rocks at the beach.
It was again a rainy day and we decided to walk around and see what else changed. In a small shop we met a couple from Germany, they just arrived here's and did not know what to do in Koh Lanta. Because we all got hungry we went to a bar/restaurant at the beach, where we shared travel experiences and Bernd found a new friend.
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