Adventures in Traveling the World
Ingredients 200 g Rice noodles, cover with water and soak for two hours 100 g Bean sprouts, 1 handful per person ½ Tofu, extra firm, cut lengthwise into 3” strips and cut into 1 ¼ “cubes Chicken, uncooked and cubed 50 g Cabbage, ¾ cup sliced thin 2 Spring onions, Green onion cut into 1’ slices 2 Garlic cloves, peel, slice into thin slices...
We’re on the road early this morning to go to our next home-away-from-home in Ao Nang, a resort town on the Andaman coast. We’ll travel on a songthaew, a passenger vehicle created from a larger truck or pick-up. Just climb in the back with your bags and wait until it’s full. It’s about a 40-minute ride to Ao Nang. Our room at P.K. Mansion...
On Wednesday, August 20 we catch a bus to Rantau Panjang, a Malaysian town and major foot border crossing to Thailand. Our bus is fully air-conditioned and gives us much relief on this sunny, 90+ degree day. We arrive Rantau Panjang and walk to the border at 10:30 am and by 11:30 am with paperwork completed we’re walking into Sungai Golok, Thailand. Our first...
It’s time to pack our backpacks and go to Thailand. Andy goes for one more swim, before we embark our 11 am water taxi to sadly leave the beautiful Pulau Perhentian Island. Our small boat delivers us to a 32-passenger boat that takes us to Kuala Besut jetty where we were, just four days ago. Andy is always figuring out what’s next and I...
After breakfast of fried egg on toast at the Lemon Grass restaurant, we’re heading out for six hours of snorkeling. We have six people from France and four people from Australia on the boat with us. No one seems particularly friendly. I’ll strike up a conversation but it becomes very one-sided and seems to be an interrogation. I give up. We lather up with...
How is it, you can wake up sweating and it’s only 8:30 am? Oh yes, our oscillating fan goes off automatically at 8 am. Today is our first day to snorkel. We find a place not far up the beach from us that has an all-day trip for 40 ringgits ($11). The masks and snorkels are laying on the ground and we’re told to...