Mud Puddle fun, Koh Lanta

It is so cheap to rent a scooter here that it is silly not to just have one so we rented ours for the whole of our entire stay and toured the entire island. We love exploring the little villages that we drive through... they are really just clusters of homes with grocery or fruit shops pegged on the front - mostly bamboo shacks or huts, and then numerous plastic-chaired restaurants that normally serve delicous food. One day we checked out some fancy resorts and investment housing opportunities (too bad we have so little money). In a way, sadly, there are many places popping up since the completion of the road last year. It'll be just a matter if time before the plastic restauarnats and the bamboo huts will be replaced by concrete and it'll be ashame - Lanta is such a lovely island and characters.

Another day of adventures - we toured to the end of the road, and then did some off-roading through mud puddles to get to the Southernmost beach in the Koh Lanta Marine Park. We had a good laugh at Kevin who got stuck in a huge mud puddle and lost his flip flops. Double click photo to see him successfully retrieving his shoes! When we finally got to the beach our chill-out time in the hammock was disturbed by an incoming helicopter, so Kevin and I went exploring and found them filming a movie up by the lighthouse. In typical Asian fashion, it was a fight movie called Mercury Man, and we watched the stuntmen film a fight scene. It was quite funny as Thailand is known for its 'Lady-boys' as they're called, and much to our amusement the stand-in for the female lead was male and dressed with the same underwear! Hmm! * Stub