so i'm back now, and in that terrible, 12-hour jetlagged world where "AM" means "PM" and i want to sleep all afternoon.
i didn't get a chance to update my journal from the beach, at Ao Thong Nai Pan Yai, on the island Ko Pha-Ngan. once acclimated to the slower, chiller pace of life spent in a hammock, looking at the ocean, i didn't really find the inertia to go check my email.
what's more, internet access on the beach was a whopping 3 Bhat/minute (~US$4.67/hour), compared to .5 Bhat/minute in the cities (~US$0.78/hour)! they both sound pretty cheap now, but after two weeks in thailand, anything over 100B seemed expensive: our guesthouse in Chiang Mai was 120B/night (~US$3), and even our slightly-upmarket-for-a-backpacker beach bungalow was 400B/night (~US$10). more prices: a large beer might cost 60B, a mixed fruit shake 40B. mmm, mixed fruit shakes.
but i must stop -- all this talk of thailand is just making me more miserable in snowy providence, r.i. to conclude: i'm back now and will be posting pictures shortly.
Posted by cce at January 19, 2005 01:55 PM | TrackBack