KOH MAK....new favorite island? Maybe!

Beware of snakes, scorpions, jellyfish and centipedes...other than that, enjoy your stay!  

Home for the next 7 nights at Thaidaho Vista 

Dining room for the next week! Ugh

My girl!

Our place from the water

Just a little guy on Nikki's shoe...he enjoyed the shower with her

Next post pics of the island....but first, let me take a selfie!

KOH CHANG! GOOD TIMES AS USUAL

We spent 8 nights with Ian & Mam @ BAAN RIM NAM.  Not much to report, always a pleasant stay!  We met Paul and Pauline from Denmark who also were staying @ BAAN RIM NAM.  They were a blast to hang out with and we did a couple dinners and had some cocktails with them.

Paul & Pauline

For Paul and Pauline's last night we went to a local resort where the locals were celebrating some Tourism thing for the Trat province.  All we were interested in was the Buffet!!!  We sat down at one of the 5 tables....shortly after we were told it was for VIP.....We all piped up saying we were VIP and stated that Pauline was the Queen of Denmark.  A few laughs were exchanged and before we knew it we had our own table!

Being the classy people we are we order a couple beer towers while waiting for the buffet to open!

Party on......Krap...krap, krap, krap.....krap!

Random pics...didn't take too many pics this time while in Koh Chang

Nikki being sprayed by young elephant!

Delicious food!  Saffron on the Sea!

2 days old

Top notch entertainment!

OLD MArCDONALD HAD A FARM.....

We drove by a beautiful rice field and kindly asked the workers if we could snap some photos of them.   They smiled and agreed but I'm not sure they knew what they were agreeing to.

Here comes the Suzuki motor

This looked like fun so we asked if we could help

Suzuki 

Piece of cake.... well for 5 minutes, wouldn't want to do it all day long!!!

Loving it

No need to pay for a mud spa treatment

Planting rice

Sorting through rice

Sticky Rice cooking for lunch

Hard at work crushing sugar cane 

SHOTS FOR ALL!!!

Lunch...straight carbs...with a few swigs of rice whiskey

LAO FONDUE...num num num

Dyen Sabai Restaurant, recommended to us by the owner of the guest house we stayed at.  It was a 5 minute walk at most and well worth it.  Beautiful setting and great food.  a little hard on the knees and ass but once you get cooking your food, you forget about the discomforts :D

FIRE IN THE HOLE!!!

fresh veggies, eggs and some noodles

LOVING IT !

LOOK HOW EXCITED NIKKI WAS

It was sooo good we went back 2 more times.  Our 3rd time we just had the Lao appy platter and a couple of beer!

Mekong Seaweed, Lao Sausage, Sweet chilli dip (with buffalo skin), Dried pork, purple Sticky rice & Eggplant dip

Here a Monk, there a Monk, everywhere a Monk Monk!

More than 85% of the Laotian people in Luang Prabang are Buddhists.  Boys, especially those from poor homes will attend monk schools and get their education through the monasteries.  There are temples everywhere in Luang Prabang and when there are temples there are monks!  It is a sea of orange here!

Alms Giving Ceremony which takes place daily at 6 am