Subject: Post: <p>As planned today was the day to leave Railay and move a bit further to Koh Phangan island for a couple of days before Koh Tao. The travel agents at Railay gave a bit high prices for the ticket to Koh Phangan and we would anyway need to travel first to the nearby town of Ao Nang, as there is no road access to Railay. So, we decided to first get to Ao Nang and then see how to manage the rest of the journey.</p><p></p><p>Basically everything is going as planned, but one long journey it is.. In the morning we departed the hotel after breakfast with the hotel shuttle golf cart to the beach and boarded a longtail boat to Ao Nang after waiting for a while for the boat to gather eight passengers which is the minimum for them to depart. Or well, actually at some point we five passengers just agreed to pay the price for eight to depart immediately and not continue waiting.</p><p></p><p>At Ao Nang we actually managed to buy tickets all the way to Koh Phangan for a bus and ferry combination via Surat Thani, and saved some hundred thai bahts in them compared to the prices quoted by Railay travel agents. We were a bit lucky again, the first bus was fully booked but two people canceled so we were in.</p><p></p><p>That luck did not continue though. The minivan collected us and other passengers around the city to a bus company hub, and for some reason we had to wait there an hour or two before departing towards Surat Thani. That already made us miss the daytime ferries to Koh Phangan, so getting on the earlier bus (which departed later than the next one..) was not that useful.</p><p></p><p>Interesting logistics this is. First they collected all the people to the hub station where the minivans to different locations departed from. The next collection point was in Surat Thani in front of a travel agency, where we again waited an hour or two for the bus to the harbour to depart and more and more people slowly arrived by the collection minivans. One more hub station before the harbour and our full bus of people finally boarded the slow ferry towards the island. Now just waiting to reach there....</p> Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
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