Aonang

Tom and I arrived in Aonang at about 2 o'clock and checked into our room in the Grand Inn. The room was really nice, we had a fan, air con, tv, fridge, a balcony, a safe and even hot showers. We threw out bags in and looked the valuables in the safe before going to have a bit to eat and a look around the resort. The main road runs right along the beach which is a large bay with crystal blue water and the odd island and stack rock formation out at sea. After going for the walk and pricing a couple of activites that we wanted to do we headed back to the hotel and grabbed a beer. The day was sweltering hot so we sat out the front of the hotel playing scramble and watching the mopeds breeze down the road with no less than four adults clinging onto them. After a few games we headed back to the room and had a shower then popped out to get another beer and a Pad Thai from a street stall. Tom and I went out for a beer in the evening to watch the New Zealand verses South Africe game. We wandered down a small side street and saw at least a dozen bars all with Thai girls standing outside. As soon as Tom got about a third of the way down the street a Thai girl came running over and fell flat on her face about 2 inches from Tom's feet. Suddenly Tom and I both became aware of the 20 or so pairs of Thai girls eyes staring at us. We both just looked at each other and said "Not a chance" so we turned around and walk back up the street and found a quiet Irish bar and had a beer there and caught the game where we could relax. The next day Tom and i got up and went for a walk down the beach. We grabbed some food from a food stall and took it down to the beach and ate it on a long watching the waves Andaman sea breaking on the sand. We decided to go for a swim which was really refreshing. When we got to the end of a beach we saw a monkey eating a banana with his feet sitting on a bridge which had a wooden walk way leading up around the cliff into the jungle. We walked all the way around the walkway and ended up on a private beach resort where we had to sign in just to walk along it. After the stroll along the beach we went back to the hotel to read our books and relax. Rebecca and co turned up about an hour later so we all chilled out and played cards and scrabble until the early hours.
The next day we'd all planned to rent kayaks but when we woke up the weather for kayaking was less than perfect so that went out the window. Instead we wondered around the shops, went out for a bit to eat and read. Sometimes its nice to have a really lazy day not doing anything at all. That evening we went out for a few drinks but it was only a quiet one so where all in bed by 11 ready to travel to Phi Phi island the next day.