Today, a group of us went tubing down the river that goes past the huts we are staying in, in the National Park. The setting is amazing. It feels like we are in the middle of nowhere, just nature an everything chilled...sweet! The staff are so lovely, a family I think that love joking around. Makes are stay so much more compfortable. Anyway, tubing...

The river was pretty tame but it felt real nice just to float down with no troubles (apart from the branch I got wacked in the face with down a mini rapid..ouch!).  There was a group of 6, but some how I managed to get ahead of everyone so it was me on my lonesome most the way. It probably doesn't sound like much, but I had an amazing time. You had to be there, really. I met everyone at the bottom and we ended up waiting a while to be picked up, so we chilled again on the river for a while.

The day ended with another tasty curry, I can't get enough of them now!  

Khao Sok - Where we finally cracked. A combination of heat, mosquitos and NO SLEEP FOR 14 days! We hired ourselves a 200 BHT bungalow....BIG MISTAKE. It was 38 degrees, the fan was broken, there were no windows, it was infested with ants, spiders, and rats...and in the middle of the night a tiger tried to break in, (when it realised this was not going to happen, proceeded to sharpen its talens on the side of our flimsy bamboo hut.) The next day a monkey (with the rage) catapulted out of a nearby tree and ran up my leg with razor sharp claws....causing laura to run off at the speed of light shouting 'no go away, leave me alone, go away' (as if the monkey understood her....hehe)....the place almost finished us off....so we decided to book the first bus back to our beloved Lanta....

HOWEVER 'my grandfather informs me this is just not possible'.....so 16 hours, 10 connections, and 5 government buses later we crawled back into Lanta Garden Home....looking like absolute shit....to face the Kokyai family.

We arrived in Kao Sok as the two tiredest people in the world after a recent burst of constant travelling involving two overnight ferries, where the sleeping deck is a row of mattresses and the lights NEVER GET TURNED OFF!! So we found ourselves with an offer of a chaep bungalow which we took and then proceeded to be attacked by animals for the next twelve hours. It all started when...

Getting back into the grounds of our accomodation a guard dog charged at us before being swiftly called back by its owner, then we saw a face amongst the bushes and the next thing we knew a monkey had jumped out and started eating rach's leg. Later on that night as we encircled ourselves with mossy nets and enough insect spray to kill a giraffe we heard gecko's squeaking and cawing their way around our room (they do actually caw, they sound like birds) and then much later we heard the low growl of what can only be described as some sort of BIG CAT, i'm going with a tiger here although it may have been a dog. and whatever it was it wasn't happy. The temperature also drops massively at night as where we were staying was encircled by mountains and so the night of terror went on...