Lazy Koh Kood. Part 2. The Big trip to Thailand. Dec – Jan – 2017/18
Дата 2 February 2018

 

To get to this paradise I used Boonshiri company. It’s really easy – they provide full service from many points in Thailand to the different islands. It can be bus and ferry, taxi and speedy boat, ext.

So, at 5am big bus pick up us from Kao San Road in Bangkok to Traat, small transfer to the pier and in 3 hours we arrived to Koh Kood. The last not spoiled point in Thailand. The island near Cambodia board.

Koh Kood was the big national reserve. And only during last 30 years it was opened to the tourists.  So, it’s only starts it long way to be agly.

It’s not touristic island. There are not a lot of shops, not a lot of restaurants, not a lot of cars and bikes.
It’s hilly, quiet, with great beaches and two fisherman villages. It has sleepy small city in the center.
East side is still jungle. One main road strips from north to south. And it has few branches aside.

We stayed in Koh Kood Resort. On the West South part of the island.

Resort located in one of the best bays in the island. Bao Bay. It’s completely closed and any wind disturb it.

Our resort has no beach. Only wooden terrace. Bungalow, old fashioned, perched in culture jungle.

 

Prices in the resort were extra high…. And even kayaks, promised to be free, were for payment.

From the first day we rented scooters. Not in the hotel. There they had been , as everything overpriced.
We just get into the main road, turn right and in one km found chain of “rent a bikes”.

First person asked passport for the deposit. And didn’t agree make discount for the first day. It was already 3pm. But he asked like for the full day.

But another guy, who has plenty of bikes, gave us 5 without any deposit and for very good price. He was very friendly.

And our island life starts.

In the morning I swim in the calm bay. On our second day I found pass through the mountain to the next bay. So, we made walk with swimming before breakfast.

Every day relaxing Thai massage. Good was on the main road just right side. 20 min walk from resort or 3 min by motorbike. Women there were very polite. One of them made different things by hand – flowers from the grass, beautiful Thai cakes. I asked her to teach us do the flowers. She prepared long leafs and during one hour my daughter’s and me had perfect master class.

Then we explored the island.  It’s hilly. There are three waterfalls there, river and a lot of beaches.
Every day we tried to visit different one.

But we also had special task. Tasya cut her leg badly. She needed medical care. By taxi girls got to the hospital. It’s very rural and clean. But it has everything. Very quickly medical help was given. And accounts for insurance company provided. From that day Tasya need to visit hospital every day for changing the band.

For swimming Tasya put on her leg few plastic bags and also put her leg into big rubber toy. It was complicated but she could swam!

We visited one waterfall  Nam Tok with charming lake. The big rocks are slippy and fishes try to bite legs. But it’s so funny! Water was very fresh.

To the biggest waterfall Huang Num  a beautiful road leads. Then it’s finished with strange organic farm or something like that.  More then 100 steps need to go dawn to waterfall. And here we didn’t find it! It was empty! Tiny ribbon of water and that’s all!.

We are addicted of  exotic
fruits. And every day we bought them in different prices. Never know how much will be pineapple , mango or papaya. It’s depends of seller, mood, stars ext. And discount is so miserable that possible to say – no discount.

Thai people are really very clean. Roads are clean, near the houses it’s clean, small gardens are clean. They wash, clean, swept every minute. Restaurants and bars are also clean. And it’s a lot of design solutions everywhere!

Restaurant Chang Mai near our resort provide excellent Thai kitchen!
Tiny View Point Cafe on the water with view on sandy bar of the main beach provide best yogurt on the island, hidden hotel in mangrove on the river provide best juices.
But the very best were restaurants in the fisherman village. This point, on the south east of the island, is the best. We came there several times. Food was so delicious, that we cannot stop to eat. Locals laugh looking on us. But we cannot stop….

Traffic is very slow. All are  careful.

There is possibility to add gasoline from the bottle, but it’s expensive. There are few self-service stations , but they do not give change back and they are also overpriced. And of course, normal local gasoline station.

Island is small. So, rolling from one point to another, swimming in bays,  on the long beaches without people, we made more then 100 km by scooters.

Main beach, visible from the road, is good place for sunset watching. But there was half of touristic population there , when we arrived at 5pm. Thailand is in tropical zone. 6 am is sunrise. 6pm is sunset. No twilight. Dark and light.

Five days it’s a lot and it’s too short also.

In our bay we snorked. I found huge cuttlefish. She didn’t afraid me. I follow her in the bay for 20 min. Then I became cold, because unfortunately, rains and cold air came in this days.

We made three dives. One on the home reef and two outside our bay. All were shallow.
In our bay there was a sandy bottom. Then different coralls and huge sponges, like the tubes, appears. Not a lot of fishes. And visibility was poor.
Dives outside our bay were also in poor visibility. I was cold, because of bad weather.
The only thing we found was huge sea horse. Black colour.

After exploring beaches we found one – Khlong Hin Beach Resort.

It has perfect bay, white sand,  cuttlefish and pass to the next bay. Here is interesting – it’s possible to pass from one bay to another by foot.  So, we walked to Ao Jark. It’s something like family with children beach, with their kitchen equipment and toy swimming pools arrived for summer holidays.  Not very clean. Not very cute.

Day after day. Happyness. Swim, massage, fruits , scooters, seafood. In warm climate.

The only thing that disturb me was personal in Koh Kood Resort – rude, indifferent, lazy. There were no any water in our bungalow during 3 hours. I was wet after swimming. I was so cold…. Manager shout on me that all resort was without the water. It was lie. It was broken tube in our bungalow. And , despite Thai people like cleaness, all bungalows were without make up, no fresh towels, no bath cosmetics. And Koh Kood Resort was not the cheapest one on the island….

 

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