No Woman No Cry.....

It's a tough life on Koh Kood

Legs outstretched on the powder white sand in the shade of a towering coconut palm, we contemplated the following morning’s options. Should we paddle the kayak gently upstream from our riverside bungalow to the waterfall for an early morning swim before breakfast on the balcony or should we head downstream to the warm, turquoise sea and swim there?

This was proving to be more difficult than we’d anticipated so we dragged ourselves off to the riverside coffee shop in search of some  inspiration. By the time we’d indulged in some banana cake topped with homemade yoghurt and some sticky rice with fresh mango topped with coconut milk, we’d completely forgotten why we went there in the first place.

Surrounded by paradise, this is the extent of the daily dilemmas that we face and do we feel guilty about it? No. After all its taken us more than six months to get here so we're lapping up every minute of it.

It was just a thirty minute speedboat ride from Koh Mak to its big sister island of  Koh Kood where we spent six days, just enough time to explore on a moped, kayak up the river, frequent several of the beautiful beaches, consume vast amounts of Thai curry and visit a really cool reggae bar who’s strapline was, ‘ no woman, no cry, no wi-fi’.

After two fabulous weeks on these two islands we were inevitably a little sad to leave but a quick trip to Burma for three weeks is the only thing standing in the way of another huge slice of Thailand island life. But it was time to head back to Bangkok to the suspiciously named Honey Hotel, then its off to Burma before our brains turn into  a big bowl of sticky rice.