Day 8: Thailand (Ko Phangan)

What a day! I for sure slept well tonight, we spent all day out and about which was insane.

We started our day very early so we could get to a few beaches, the first beach we went to was okay. It reminded me a lot of the beaches we have back in Australia and it was super quiet not many people bothered us which is always a bonus. Some of the group just relaxed on the beach while a few of us chilled in the ocean just having a good talk about snacks and desserts we have back in our home countries. Before leaving this nice beach our leader Sarah thought it would be a fantastic idea to attempt to make a human pyramid, the 4 boys Leo, Mark, Josh and Uncle Wez all were the base while a few of the girls made up the rest of the pyramid. The boys didn't enjoy it at all, 2 of them ended up with mouths of water but the end product looked pretty good so that was surprising.

We left that first beach after a good hour or so and made our way up to a small café on the beach, this place looked so cool! The decorations were just old ropes and a bunch of hammocks but this place still looked unreal. We only stayed here for drinks as we were having lunch somewhere else, Josh got a mango smoothie and I got a strawberries and cream smoothie and it tasted exactly like a the strawberry and cream lollies you get in Australia it was very sweet.   

When we had all finished our drinks our journey started again, this time to lunch. The tour guides that were driving us around all day supplied lunch so they took us to a small waterfall were we had watermelon, fried rice and fried chicken for lunch. It was very simple but it was just so nice to have food after the day at this point. While the guides were cleaning up after lunch, Sarah took us up on a small walk to go see a waterfall, the walk there was very similar to the Grampians back in Victoria Australia so it was very nice. When we got there the water wasn't running on the larger waterfall but we saw some guy carrying a monkey instead, they were best friends this monkey was happy letting the man throw him and everything. 

We made our way back down the mountain and saw that the smaller waterfall was flowing, it was so pretty but we didn't stay too long as we were on our way to the next beach. This next beach was less enjoyable, I found out my back was super super sunburnt, the ocean was full of sharp rocks every where, it was starting to rain and overall not many people enjoyed themselves at this beach so we made the call to go the viewpoint instead of getting wet and injured at the beach.

This viewpoint was up the steepest driveway I have ever seen, I slipped down in the back of the ute we were in. But the view. OMG it was stunning! Jungle everywhere you looked and further in the distance you could see the sea, it was so nice. We sat down as a group and just reallly enjoyed ourselves for almost 2 hours, hung our feet over the ledge, some of us got fresh coconut water instead some of the biggest coconuts I have ever seen. It was just such a nice little lookout to relax and listen to music for a little while at.  

The group got back to Sarana fairly late today but we went to dinner and there was so many options to choose from. The chefs of Sarana made up a buffet style dinner and I ate so much, I'm not one that goes for seconds but I did and I couldn't walk straight but there is for sure no regrets. 

Once dinner had settled down it was game night. We played a game of trivia and a bunch of random games that I have never heard of before, there was lots of laughs and giggles being made. Honestly such a beautiful night bonding with the group.