Somewhere in Ko Chang..

This is what our beach looks like... Kwai river will, needless to say, have to wait a bit longer! We have prolonged for a couple of days our stay in the paradisical Ko Chang island in the east of Thailand, bordering Camboda, where we are staying in the Blue Lagoon bungalows, a collection of only 11 bungalows in a wonderful setting of a blue lagoon surrounded by mangrove forest, a very short walk from the above mentioned beach. Ko, incidentally, means Island in Thai, and Chang means Elephant (it also means a very nice Thai beer, although not as nice, nor cheap, as the czech variety!). The forest, which is a national park, does indeed have elephants, aswell as other assorted animals and beautiful landscapes (including jungle, waterfalls and thai restaurants!). In our own bungalow we have the nightly visit of what must be the biggest lizzard / smallest dinosaur, we have ever seen (I am certain we have discovered a new species which I have named Lenkus dinossaurus, but I may need to review that back home)!

Otherwise we have finally taken this opportunity to finally wind down, forget what day of the week it is, just focus on sun, beach, sea and lovely thai food (a restaurant near our bungalow, a lovely one run by a german lady, serves delicious food for 25 bath, around 50 cents, which means that so far our budget has been seeing a most lovely surplus and no Western Union help is required).

We will be leaving this green paradise friday - a boat trip back to the mainland then a long bus trip back to Bangkok. The day after, early in the morning, we head off to see the Angkor ruins in Cambodja. We shall keep you posted.

Greetings from Ko Chang!

And now for a small czech interlude...

A pro ty, co na me cekaji v Cechach, trosku cestiny, abych se procvicila.
Tak tohle je nase uzasna plaz, kde travime tento tyden. Blue lagoon si urcite zaslouzila svoje jmeno, je to kousek od plaze, 11 schovanych bungalowu a k spanku urcite nepotrebujeme nic do usi a spime jako zabiti (je to hezky rozdil k Bangkoku). Sloni ostrov, thajsky preklad jmena, ma nejen slony, ale taky uzasny lesy a ruzny hmyzy, ktery me vyvadi z miry (podivejte se na ty fotky - to je nevetsi jester, kteryho jsem kdy videla:)
JInak se jdu ucit varit (jak rika Pedro - konecne!), podivejte se na www.kochangcookery.com:)
tak se zatim mejte krasne, ja se zase ozvu, a ne abyste mi opravovali chyby, je to fakt tezky (snazim se:)