I awoke this morning with a very foggy head, by the sound of another cockerel directly outside our window - grrr! Frantically packed our bags as failed to do so last night, checked out and headed to the Pier to catch our Lomprayah Catamaran to Surat Thani ( Donsak).
After 8 days on Koh Tao I was really sad to leave, such a beautiful place - the first I have really felt like I could stay.
We could the boat and was given a red ribbon to tie around my list as we had to change boats at Phangnan - urgh not what I wanted to do. I wad looking forward to falling asleep in the aircon room for a good few hours. We disembarked and waited for 40 mins for another Catamaran to Surat Thani. It finally came about 20 mins late and was really small. We got it fine via Samui and as soon as we got off the boat we were hurded into our minivan we had booked with Lomprayah to Hat Yai for 900 bht at Koh Tao. We wanted to get the boat and train direct to Butterworth which you can do but the train was fully booked, do we thought we'd just take our chances!
There was no room for our bags and in traditional Thai fashion the driver expected us to sit with our huge rucksacks on our laps, but I remained stood up until he sorted it - which he did. After that he dropped the majority of people off at the airport and we thought sweet a whole minivan for 4 people - until it changed into a Co-op taxi picking up every man, woman and child until we were over full again and arrived at Hat Yai.
We were told there were no buses to Butterworth for the rest of the day, and to try the trains. Tuk tuk to the train station and the next train was 7am so we found a KFC I know, I know but we were so hungover it had to be done and checked into the Kings Hotel which is really cheap only 450 for aircon room for two and Wifi.
To Malaysia tomorrow!!
