Sunday 6th March, 2011
Distance: 89km (Total: 10,971)
Breakfast at the market of coffee, sticky rice with bananas and fried doughnuts. Despite our best efforts to leave early to avoid the heat we were still soaked in sweat after half an hour. The humidity seems to be increasing every day and it’s making the cycling seriously hard work.
We spotted a great looking restaurant and decided stop for an early lunch of ginger and lemongrass chilli chicken, fried pork with garlic and pepper – awesome!! After a long rest we decided we try to cover the distance to Khao Lok. The last few kilometres were pretty tough with it being so humid and seemingly impossible to replace the lost fluids.
On nearing Khao Lok we started to see lots of tourists on motorbikes and passed some very expensive looking beach resorts. Khoa Lak isn’t that nice but is where diving trips to the Similan islands depart so was heaving with tourists. We found a decent bungalow for 500 baht and spent the afternoon lazing about and trying to rehydrate.
We decided to take tomorrow off the bikes and maybe hire a motorbike so we can go and take a look at Phuket island. It doesn’t sound like the sort of place we’d like to stay but Mike wants to go and take a look at all the boats so hopefully we can be there and back in a day on a moped.
