25.09-29.09: Still chilling in Koh Phangan

The next morning we still had the scooter for a few hours, so we went to eat lunch at a cool spot by the lake. The food tasted even more amazing than it looked (it looked really good, we added a picture of it), and staff there was super friendly (they even let Jono feed their fish). Back at the resort we basically just got back to what we’ve been doing for several days now; Jono snorkeling on the reef just off the private beach, and Maja reading books in the hammock.
One early evening our Icelandic friends popped up out of nowhere while we were having dinner. We had a nice meal together and they decided to move over to our resort for our last night. We decided to have an early night to make the most out of the following day. We didn’t really manage to make the most out of the day, but we did take a walk to the nearest liquor shop (which is pretty far away) with the ’Icies’ (Jono’s word). On the way there we walked along the road, so on our way back we decided to find a more scenic route, and ended up walking along the beach. The only problem about doing that is that the beach comes to an end and at the point there is a collection of big rocks separating the beaches. There was no turning back at this stage of the game, so we climbed (some of us carrying bottles of wine and rum) our way over the rocks and onto the next beach, which we soon enough realized was not our beach. Again we had to climb through another collection of big rocks. Thorbergur had had enough and through himself to the ocean, convinced it was the easier route, although Maja, Jono and Haukur beat him to the beach. We finally reached our resort, drenched in sweat and with some cuts on our legs, but with both the alcohol and a positive attitude intact. We arrived just in time for the guys to have a quick dive before sunset, and ended the day with a long dinner accompanied by beer and rum for the guys and Thai wine (surprisingly good!!) for Maja.
The next morning the four of us jumped on the ferry, the Icies going to Surat Thani (then catching a bus to Bangkok to see if they could locate Thorbergurs passport which he had left there at the beginning of the trip) and Maja and Jono going back to Koh Samui for one night.
In Koh Samui we took into a hotel close to the pier and went in search of dinner. We ended up eating at a bakery and discovered to our great pleasure that the people there knew what dark bread was, and they even sold it! We bought ourselves a big round bread, and (feeling a little bit extravagant) got ourselves some Philadelphia cream cheese from the grocery shop (expensive, but so worth it). Here, we must also mention the amazing selection of juices. Some examples; spinach juice, broccoli juice, aloe vera juice, purple carrot juice and beetroot juice. We got up early next morning to catch the bus at the harbor which was parked next to the ferry so that we could drive the bus onto the ferry (Asian Logic again). We were allowed to get off the bus to go and sit upstairs at the ferry, and when we got to mainland the bus took us down 4 hours to Hat Yai.
At the bus station in Hat Yai we managed to escape the harassment and abuse from the local tuk-tuk drivers (who seems to be convinced that if the shout and pull you, you will want to catch a ride with them….A.L!). Hat Yai is a pretty cool city with very few tourists. We found a nice (and super cheap) guest house, with a really friendly staff. We took the time to help the staff with some signs they wanted translated to English. With Jono being dyslectic and Maja being Norwegian, we can’t be quite sure if the signs came out grammatically correct, but we are pretty sure they will be more understandable the most of the English signs in Thailand. Anyway, for dinner we decided to go for pizza and found it quite amusing that our vegetarian pizza came with carrots and pies on it. Later we walked around in some of the bigger malls.
The next morning our pre-ordered tuk-tuk picked us up, and took us to Hat Yai International Airport. Having checked in for our flight to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, we decided to sit down for breakfast. Whilst enjoying our coffee a long line of little Thai school children walked past. Maja made the fatal mistake of waving back to one of them, not knowing how long the line was. Yip, it turned out the entire school was there, and a few hundred school children later we were still waving, smiling and blowing kisses, wondering if the line was ever going to end. After breakfast we jumped on our two hour flight to Kuala Lumpur where we had a two hour wait (we killed the time with starbucks and episodes of ‘according to Jim’), before we caught our final flight… next stop; Bali, Indonesia!