Dutch entertainment
Since there was not enough air to move a palm frond and because the Thai farters were nowhere to be found, we looked for other entertainment… after all, there’s only so much jet lag that one can recover from.
So we decided to explore the island and rented a scooter, for the princely sum of 3euros a day!! With there being too much to see, we decided to make it a cultural excursion and elected to visit a few temples and anatomical structures on the island (more on that later!).
The trip around the island took about 4hrs. We visited 2 of the many Buddhist temples on the islands, all of which are massive and are very ornately designed and painted. One of the temples was home to the 20yr old mummified body of a local monk - his family apparently donated his body after it failed to decay after his death (buddhists believe that enlightened persons bodies’ don’t decay).
Along the way we had to stop off to see the ‘Grandfater and Grandmother rocks’… large genitalia shaped rocks alongside a beach. It was amazing to see just how many others had flocked to see it as well… what is it with humans and sex anyway??!!
We finished off our trip by going to see the Big Buddha, which is situated on a small island off the Big Buddha beach, (where we launched from for the Full Moon Party that we went to in Feb). Not much to see really, other than a big buddha. Duh.
In addition to the pics, we had to add this radio clip below… it comes from one of the vans that traverse the island ALL THE TIME, advertising the Thai boxing that is taking place ‘that night only’.. those of you that have been to Thailand before will probably remember…. (We added some visuals, but the audio is original!!)
