Visa Run
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008Alright we just got back from our Visa Run. I can’t remember if we told you what that really entails. First we decided to take the day time ferry over to Chumpon. This is a high speed catamran, it is really comfy, AC and shows a movie. This differs from the Night boat which is like military sleeping barracks, 20 bunk beds and it smells. So this trip was a pleasent one. It only takes an hour and a half to get to Chumpon. Once off the ferry there is a little man yelling out Visa Run so we follow him to a minibus AC again for the 2 hour trip to the Thailand border. Once we get to the border the driver takes us right to the immigration place. This time it was part of a resort, very nice. From there we take a 20 minute ferry across some river to Myanmar. The place we went to was a Casino Resort, so the boat over was very nice, as opposed to the small fishing boat we crossed with last time. This boat had AC as well. Okay so now we are in the resort for an hour, all about the duty free shopping. Well for some I guess, I was more excited about the fact that in the bar they had POPCORN!!! Yeah it is the little things I like 🙂 So we are with a nice group of strangers, whom we chatted with most of the way over. There was even an American on the trip, nice guy from California Jeff. He is a dive/rock climbing instrutor obviously not at the same time guys…. I know someone was going to get confused about that. Anyway there was a Dutch girl on the trip of about 18, very nieve. She even asked Jeff if the US was a country!! She thought it was just a bunch of States, wow and people think Americans Geography sucks!! So we had a nice laugh about that. So we hangout at the bar eating popcorn drinking beer, and watching a guy pretend to play the piano (the music as actually coming from a laptop) He did sing but his hands barely ever moved, that is how we knew he wasn’t playing the piano. Anyway so back on the ferry, back to the minibus and then to Chumpon. We decided to spend the night, for the sole purpose of KFC!!!! We hardly recongnized anything on the menu, very Asian! But it was still worth it. We found a little hotel recommended by Jeff. He said they had rooms for 280 Baht a night ($8) however upon getting there we found we could get the Deluxe room (AC and TV) for $15 a night. Yeah we splurgged baby!! Unfortunately we had to get up early, cause the bed was so comfy! 🙁 Oh well we got back to Koh Tao in time for Maryanne to get a massage and go for a dive in the afternoon. Good thing too, cause I found a knife on the dive still in the sheath. Sweet, go me! 🙂
Ok Jared forgot a very important part about the dive that we did this afternoon we saw a turtle.. Yeah we are some lucky people in the last week we have seen whale sharks, Black Tip Sharks and a turtle. Tommorrow I am going to be assisting a rescue course. I cant wait this is alot of fun. I am going to be the one pretending to drown or get hurt. I am really looking forward to it.
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