ï»¿{"id":249,"date":"2001-07-15T11:26:45","date_gmt":"2001-07-15T09:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/?p=249"},"modified":"2011-01-29T18:27:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T16:57:48","slug":"ko-pha-ngan-to-trang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/2001\/07\/15\/ko-pha-ngan-to-trang\/","title":{"rendered":"Ko Pha Ngan and bus to Trang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <div class=\"ngg-gallery-singlepic-image ngg-left\" style=\"max-width: 155px\">\n\t\t        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-content\/gallery\/thailand\/trang_thailand.jpg\"\n           title=\"Trang, Thailand\"\n           data-src=\"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-content\/gallery\/thailand\/trang_thailand.jpg\"\n           data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-content\/gallery\/thailand\/thumbs\/thumbs_trang_thailand.jpg\"\n           data-image-id=\"1822\"\n           data-title=\"Trang, Thailand\"\n           data-description=\"Trang, Thailand\"\n           target='_self'\n\t\t\tclass=\"shutterset_da6a62c3679a00676a322338c4a7d434\">\n            <img class=\"ngg-singlepic\"\n                 src=\"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-content\/gallery\/thailand\/cache\/trang_thailand.jpg-nggid041822-ngg0dyn-320x240x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n                 alt=\"Trang, Thailand\"\n                 title=\"Trang, Thailand\"\n\t\t\t\t                    width=\"155\" \t\t\t\t            \/>\n        <\/a>\n\t\t    <\/div>\n\t\t13th of July<br \/>\nAnother day on the motorbike. We went up to the north again. We drove until the we couldn&#8217;t go any further. Sandra wanted to relax on the beach and I decided to climb up some rocks. It took me an hour or so to get to the top of the rocks, but the scenery was wonderful. I felt like a little Robinson.. I could see the next beach, which wasn&#8217;t reachable by motorbike, and it looked like on one of those Postcard-Beaches or Movie scenarios. Awesome!! Around 6:00 pm we decided to go to Hat Rin once more, to see what the &#8221; Half Moon Party&#8221; was like. It wasn&#8217;t a big party at all, just a small group of people, hopping around on the beach&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>14th of July<br \/>\nMy last day in Ko Pha Nang. Also my last day with Sandra and Zlatko, the two other travellers who I stayed with the past 9 days ( I may meet Sandra again later this month) . Sandra wanted to stay on the island and Zlatko is flying over to Europe as I&#8217;m sitting in this Internet-cafe right now. Since I had to wait the whole day to get on the night ferry to Surat Thani, I just walked around in Thong Sala and had a few drinks.<\/p>\n<p>The night ferry left Thong Sala at 10:00 pm. I might come back on the 4th of August, to see what the &#8220;Original Full Moon Party&#8221; is like.<\/p>\n<p>15th of July, Bus to Trang<br \/>\nThe night ferry from Thong Sala arrived at Surat Thani at 5:00 am. A mini van picked me up at the pier and took me to another place, where tourists where already waiting for their busses. Three mine-van&#8217;s and two different bus-stations later, I arrived at the same place again, and the guy at the bus-office told me that I can go to Trang&#8230; WOW! And this day was just about to start!<\/p>\n<p>It took about two hours, to get a town where the driver dropped me of and told me that I need to get a motorcycle-taxi and go to another bus station. OK! I was to tired to fight and tell them that I paid for a trip to TRANG. Fortunately I got on a bus to Trang. But after my arrival in Trang, I had to found out that no one ever heard about a Youth Hostel in or around Trang.<\/p>\n<p>A friendly police men took me to a mini-van station, and then I was on my way to Had Yao, the place I thought I would find a nice Youth Hostel. At least I thought so.<\/p>\n<p>The mini-van driver took me to a small &#8220;resort&#8221; next to the beach. I met other travellers from Denmark, who where also &#8220;stranded&#8221; in the middle of nowhere. Shortly after my arrival, a horrible storm came up (monsoon, as the owner of the so called resort told me a hundred times). The storm lasted for about three hours. After a short walk around in the rain I was also able to find the youth hostel, just about a ten minute walk away from the &#8220;resort&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I and the travellers from Denmark decided not to stay at the &#8220;resort&#8221; and luckily found a minivan which brought us back to Trang. Since the weather down here is in a horrible condition, I&#8217;m going to leave this place tomorrow, to go to Malaysia, or to Ko Phi Phi. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13th of July Another day on the motorbike. We went up to the north again. We drove until the we couldn&#8217;t go any further. Sandra wanted to relax on the beach and I decided to climb up some rocks. It took me an hour or so to get to the top of the rocks, but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/2001\/07\/15\/ko-pha-ngan-to-trang\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ko Pha Ngan and bus to Trang&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-backpacking","category-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}