jwebphoto: thailand

as an individual who enjoys being outdoors, china is not the best of places. don’t get me wrong i really do love china, but it is not exactly a great place to go out and get some “fresh air”. so being told i would stay in china for another week was a little bit of a set back. to remedy this i hopped a flight to phucket, thailand for the weekend in search of clean turquoise waters, sunshine and fresh air. by the way it is poo-cot not fuck it.
phucket was still a bit crowded for me, so i took the ferry to phi phi island, which is located apx 25 miles southeast of phucket in the andaman sea. from there I caught a water taxi and ended up at the tohko beach resort. let me be the first to admit that this is the kind of place that I hesitate talking about because the last thing I would ever want would be to head back there and find a sandals… but as most of the readership of this is based roughly 9000 miles away, I will go ahead and digress. The tohko beach resort was paradise, maybe not for everyone, but for me it was pretty damn close.

tohko was like a summer camp for its dozen or so guests. we all had our own little bungalos, ranging in size and amenities, but there was only one place to eat, and one beach so we pretty much coexisted, a little commune if you will.

sure you could go on a day trip to the town or phi phi lake(where the movie the beach was filmed…leo!), but for me and what seemed like a majority of the guests, the great part was sitting and reading in the sun or swimming and snorkeling in bath warm water. the kitchen was open from 6am till 10pm and no cash was necessary, on check out you would be given a bill that included your room, drinks, food and any activities. so everyone just relaxed, ate and drank. and oh, by the way, the food is amazing, thai food at its best. the most shocking part of all of this is that when i had to say goodbye and check out i was presented with a bill that was roughly $92.
let that sink in…
3 days 2 nights, lodging, drinks, food and activities for $92. i have had larger bar tabs in shitty cleveland bars.
now the reason i pause in recommending to anyone and everyone is that the tohko is a bit robinson cursoe, and that’s a good thing to me. however for someone else looking for a 15 story high rise with air conditioning, a mini bar and spa, the tohko probably is not for you. the tohko is what it should be, a place where you can enjoy the surroundings, enjoy the sea, enjoy not being at work. they have electricity but they only turn it on from 6pm-6am and why not? what the hell are you doing in your room? as far as i could tell, hot water is not really an option, but again it has a low of 85 in the evening, it really is not necessary, plus the cool shower after a day in the sun is amazing. it is everything i wanted and needed and nothing i did not. enjoy the pics
mosquito net and a hammock, not much else i could ask for