Thailand. Day 10.

Today we went on a tour around the island. The guide was terribly polite, but could barely talk english which disappointed us a bit, because there wasn't any group for this tour, just two of us, so we were looking forward to it and were hoping to ask all questions we had and listen about the island, but all we got was his silence. 

We again could ride an elephant! Yay! But this time we had to be ridden so to say, because the elephant-boy would sit on its head and lead the way. Our elephant was adorable though!! A 33-years old female with really soft skin which was surprising for me. I was used to really rough skin, but she was different. Also, she had nice character and could growl in a burping way. Well, all of them could... I didn't know that! She did that couple of times while i was on top of her and it all vibrated as if she turned on an engine. 

Also we got to see the biggest waterfall in Koh Chang and swim there... Really cold water!!! I guess because it's a river, so its water doesnt' get really warm. But it was fun...

We could also explore some river in kayaks, but since we didn't wanna get lost, we turned around after a while and came back on the same route. There wasn't any guide or any signs, so when we arrived at a spot where we had the ocean on the right and 5 different ways on the left, we turned around. Kayaking's fun, but not so fun when you don't know where you're going and where are you supposed (or allowed) to go. Besides, we didn't have safety vests. 

Koh Chang is really beautiful though... Some parts are really untouched by human (or barely touched) and it's lovely!! We noticed that more than half of the shore is still for sale and smiled to each other about it. Maybe one day we're gonna eat coconuts from our own plot? Who knows. If i would be rich, i would buy the whole island and just do nothing - for sake of keeping the nature as it is. It should be awesome to have a small shed there with 3 walls, cause i wouldn't bother building all 4 of them, wake up when the sun is already up high in the sky and eat coconuts and bananas. Ha! At least i know how my dreams of empty yet amazing days could/should look like now.

What i have noticed over time is that thai people are pretty heavily tattooed which is quite the opposite if you think of Japan. People there don't do that so much (yet). Although i don't really like skinny guys today i couldn't stop starring at one of them at the waterfall. Somehow the nature of him made my eyes stick to him. Sitting on the rocks at the waterfall, diving into the water every now and then, chatting and well... being tattooed so well! Sexy.
I've seen some older people tattooed as well which would mean that it's not just the youngsters doing that. My mom would just shake her head, but i see that as art! Some of them really are. And their style is so totally different from ours. I wanted to take that guy at the waterfall back home! Of course not everything is so good as you might think. After a while a really young thai girl came to swim. She was adorable, but had terrible tattoos - a cartoon like red devil and an angel which somehow looked stupid in comparison to the guy. Well, everyone has their own taste. 

Today is the last evening here... so we had our supper (last supper) on the beach at that lovely cafe and of course i ordered ice cream in coconut again and got even bigger coconut than yesterday!! I now feel like stuffed turkey and am listening to the waves crashing on the shore. It's beautiful out here... 

By the way, water's moving here! In the evening it starts to sink a little bit and in the morning it comes back to the shore where it stays for the whole day and then i goes back again. Interesting!

Tomorrow we'll be taken to the Bangkok airport and fly to Istanbul where we're gonna wait almost 10 hours until we're going back to Baltic states. And then, just couple of days more and i'm at home. It's been great, but the timing of this vacation is the worst ever! 

By the way, i finished my second book. What am i gonna do in the airport?????!!!!