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Fun with Locals
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 29 May 2011
Although Tony mentioned growing conservatism among Muslim minorities in Southern Thailand in Burkas and the Art of Roti Canai, there’s obviously another side to the story. Young girls are still young girls, with or without headscarves. These girls were especially outgoing, stopping us to take our picture on Koh Tarutao. When we asked to take [...]
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Cleaning up Thailand
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 27 May 2011
On our previous visit to Koh Adang, Tony came across a beautiful stretch of white-sand beach while water-hiking. (Clearly, he was ignoring rule No. 2 in our last post.) He couldn’t wait to go back and show me his discovery. Twenty minutes of walking and twenty five minutes of swimming took us to what he [...]
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Water-Hiking
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 25 May 2011
It’s no secret that we love nature. And if you haven’t figured it out by now, we aren’t huge fans of crowds of tourists lying on our beaches. (We’ve said it before, we’re beach snobs.) But our pictorials and videos from Goa to Palawan often show stunning, empty beaches completely devoid of much of the [...]
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Sunda Flying Lemurs
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 23 May 2011
Well, they’re not lemurs and they can’t really fly, but they definitely are awesome! After almost two years in Southeast Asia, we’ve finally spotted two – count ‘em two – Sunda flying lemurs here on Koh Adang. The amazing gliding mammals swooped down in front of us and landed on a tree not far from [...]
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That’s Nature for You
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 21 May 2011
After braving the mass tourism and overdevelopment further north, we finally decided to retreat to Koh Tarutao National Park, our island hideaway in Satun Province. This time, we went to Koh Adang, an island we explored on our previous visit, but didn’t write about. One of the island’s most intriguing features WAS a beautiful sandspit [...]
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Magical Bioluminescence
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 15 April 2011
Here on Koh Tarutao, the electricity shuts off promptly at 11 PM. For many people, that is a serious disadvantage of staying in a national park. For us, it is a MAJOR plus. The lack of artificial light, combined with the relatively healthy beach environment makes the spectacle of bioluminescent plankton truly spectacular. But bizarrely, [...]
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Lu Du Falls
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 13 April 2011
“Vat can you do here besides beach activities”? the German couple asked just after they arrived at Ao Molae. When I told them about the 14-km round-trip walk to Lu Du Falls, they threw their arms up in the air and gasped, “We don’t walk.” The next day, they were gone. As Tony mentioned before, [...]
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Peaceful Tarutao
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 12 April 2011
Ahhh, another serene sunset on Koh Tarutao. (Hey, does the sky look like some funky goddess left a pink lipstick print in the clouds?)
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Hanging with Helga
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 8 April 2011
Sweet Helga Presents us with Some Sweets! Our stay at Koh Tarutao would not have been the same without Helga, a 72-year old powerhouse of a woman, and a muse to all travelers and wanna-be travelers. Backpacking through Thailand, inline skating (!), bicycling and serious trekking are only a few of the physical activities she [...]
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Koh Tarutao
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 6 April 2011
Recent postings such as Why I Don’t Love Langkawi and What Would Grandma Mary Do? might have left our nature-loving readers down in the dumps. Well, to those hippie, tree-hugging, flower-power, green-commie, bird-loving relics out there, here is one post you will enjoy. Koh Tarutao National Park is proof that miracles do exist. Somehow, in [...]
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Nothing to Write Home About
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 29 March 2011
We normally like to showcase the most interesting, the most mind-boggling, or the most exciting facts and places on our blog. Rarely do we talk about areas which have no appeal to travelers what-so-ever. Places which might be considered boring. Fact is, I often fall in love with mid-size towns, functional cities, and transportation hubs [...]
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