Today started off like another normal day in the Ramada. We had breakfast at ‘The Kitchen’ as usual and returned back to the villa to rest and get ready for our journey to the Orchid resort
The Orchid resort was one of the hotels in Khao Lak which we were planning to stay in before we found out about the Ramada. In the end we crossed it off the list of hotels we wanted to go to after we saw a comment from a Frenchman on TripAdvisor.com who said ‘They are liars. Only one restaurant was open and the place was under construction! Go to the Le Meridien instead!”. Anyway our journey started with the sighting of a few crabs hopping along the beach, and Dad and Mum peacefully walking in the shallow bits of the sea. Then I saw it. The huge river. The torrents of water. Looks like this walk wasn’t going to be peaceful as I thought it was going to be!
At least in the end, Dad, Mum, and I managed to cross the river at last. We were drenched in sea water, but that was the least of our worries. We could see a wild dog in front of us and Mum’s experiences at the Dog Chase (see Dog Chase for more information) weren’t going to make things better at all! We kept walking on anyway, and soon found out that the so called ‘dog’ was actually just two people folding up a beach towel!
We soon found the Orchid, hidden amongst thousands of coconut trees. We entered in silence, aware of all the construction workers working deafeningly alongside us. The restaurant soon came into view through a tangle of tropical foliage. All three of us had a young coconut (my favourite Thai drink) and regained all the strength we needed to get back to the Ramada hotel. We left the Orchid happily and thinking, “Good thing we didn’t come to this place!”.
For lunch we went to a local beach front restaurant where I had a quite nice ‘ham and pineapple fried rice’. To spice it up a bit, I added some fish sauce with chopped chilies.
That’s the most exciting part of the day, and I won’t tell you about the second half of the day because it continues normally and it wastes my typing time.
Patrick
