Our last few days in Koh Kong was spent exploring the surrounding countryside... Mangrove forests and waterfalls, such a beautiful place.
Mangroves
After leaving Koh Kong last week it was time for our final border crossing, into Thailand! This was actually one of the easiest we've ever done and in a little under 4 hours a tuk tuk ride, one bus, two trucks and a ferry later, we were settling into island life in the second largest island in Thailand, Koh Chang.
The island is very big and split into lots of different small towns, on the ride from the ferry to our first hotel it all felt a bit touristy. For the first three nights we stayed in a hotel quite near the top of the island where it was quite a bit quieter so we had a very relaxing time on the beach and by the pool!!
As you all know, Rachel celebrated her 30th birthday on Monday, and what a day we had!
First thing in the morning we transferred to a hotel on a different part of the island before being picked up and whisked off to a cooking course for the day.
As I'm sure you have all noticed, sampling local food has been a very important part of our trip and the cooking course with Blue Lagoon cooking school was absolutely amazing! Our teacher was lovely and very personable, and not only did she teach us how to make six different dishes she also taught us a lot about the culture and how the people of Thailand connect with food and why certain ingredients are so vital to their existence....I don't think either of us will look at a grain of rice in the same way again!
We both thoroughly enjoyed the experience, we did a cooking course whilst in Phnom Penh but this one was just incredible!!
After eating so much we wondered how we would fit dinner in, but, never fear after an hour or so sipping bubbles on the verandah of our beach villa, we were ready to go again!!!
Suffice to say after a very food filled day and a couple of bottles of fizz later we felt extremely happy!
The next day we spent most of our time soothing our heads by sipping coconut water and....you guessed it....hanging out by the pool and beach!
We're just about to move on to our third and final hotel on the island for a few nights before trekking our way back to Bangkok ahead of our flight home on Monday...
We've had such an amazing 6 months and we really can't believe that we're almost at the end, so this is the last of our Love Mondays, but hopefully we'll
carry on the sentiment and Mondays will never be a dull day for us again!!
We hope you've enjoyed following us on our journey....see you very sooooon!!
The weeks highlights:
Best View: The view from our beach villa... Nice little treat from the places we have been staying at!
Best Food: I think that for sure the best food we've had this week, and in Thailand for that matter has to be the food we learnt to make at Blue Lagoon cooking school! Below are a couple of the dishes that we made... Looking forward to cooking them at home too!
Love Monday funday: Rachel is 30!! What better way to spend a love Monday funday than eating and drinking copious amounts of food and wine?! Finishing off our Love Monday fun days with a bang!!
Number of hours on a bus: 1
Number of hours on a tuktuk: 3
Number of hours on the back of a truck: 1
Definitely taking a slower pace (less traveling!) as it's the end... Enjoying every last minute :-)
See you all shortly for some great catch ups,
Love Rach and Lisa xx
Colin's sad to be leaving the sun but super excited to see Morgan :-) x
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