THAI HOUSE BOAT

After ENP we ended up spending a night on a houseboat resort with Say, Johnny, and Jane. This place was for locals. No English. Amazing. When our three ENP friends invited us, we were not only ecstatic to spend more time with them, but we were also really grateful to be given this non-tourist experience. 

After taking 20 minute speed boat ride past about a hundred little islands (most of which were deforested all around their perimeter-- UGH), we spent the night eating tons of food and sipping on (or at least trying to sip on) Thai whiskey (even watered down it’s still pretty nasty). At sunset we took some kayaks out and just paddled around absorbing the insane beauty that surrounded us. Without a camera to capture it all, you will just have to trust us when we say it was quite literally the more spectacular view. The sky was fifty shades of gorgeous, birds flew over our heads and their were random little islands popped up all around us. Ugh just thinking about it makes us nostalgic.

After a wonderful sleep in our own fan-cooled room we woke to a sunrise just as beautiful as the sunset. It was a different kind of beautiful-- more mysterious than magical, but beautiful none the less. 

We stayed on the boat until noon, eating more, talking, and enjoying our new Thai family. At noon we boarded a boat back to shore, got dropped off at a bus stop, and waited about two and a half hours for a mini bus to Pai. Don’t worry-- the wait didn’t seem that long with the company of delicious, freshly made Thai Iced Tea:)