Travelogue :  Amber's Southeast Asia travels

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I have now been in Thailand a week and im still not that taken with it. The reason for this is its pretty laid back everyone speaks english everyone tries to get as much money as possible out of you, visually for me its not that great yep sure the island koh lanta is nice to look at but it stil feels that theres not too much culture here! Problem is i dont think anything will live up to India that was so WOW..... visually.

OK enough of my sadness of not being in india. Its hot 90s but there is a cool breeze and the place im at is called the sanctuary and it is! Its very pretty, im in a bamboo hut in the morning the light filters through the cracks and reflects lots of little light flecks around the the room its very beautiful to wake up and see. The food here is amazing....im eating lots of fish,veg and rice and in the morning porridge with yoghurt and green or herbal tea. So thats great for me home from home but much better and tastier than i can cook! 150baht my dinner will cost so 30 baht is 50p so cheap eh!!

Im also happy here now on this island as i have met some more friends again germans two girls and one guy, Dierk and Lea and Frederick. I eat with the two girls lastnight and we were up till late chatting and swappping stories of back home and travel so far. They are late 20s and on same wave length as me so im happy.

In the day i go on the beach go for a walk and evening maybe a thai massage and then dinner. It feels weird though im not finding it easy to adapt to, i keep thinking is this what i want is it ok to just spend money not work it feels kind of strange and ailien to me. Before i arrived here i was further south on this island and the place was awful, and the owners unfriendly this was jark klong bungalows so dont stay there....unless your happy to be ripped off and stay in a tiny tiny hut...where no light filters through and the roof leaks when it rains and there was no shower and you had to flush the toilet by pouring water from the tap into it! Its not liker im not used to roughing it i enjoy this but this was horrible and i felt so scared and unsafe the bolt on door boloted across to be held by a rusty old nail......god i was scared anyhow i left there after two nights and my place now is just 50 baht more but feels like a palace compared. i have an open air bathroom with the shower falling from the overhead tree stil no sink etc but its beautiful so im happy.

Im not sure how long to stay here just went into town and may go with germa girls to another island from here, then i think i will head north in search of some culture in thailand and then stick to going across to Laos. Im soooo pulled though to just fly to China and im still sad of the situation on Tibet as trekking and mountain tops more my think than beaches. OK gona attach a few pics if i can of my new home and friends.

Kho San road, Bangkok sorry didnt know jow to put this pic in before!