{"id":6047,"date":"2017-03-04T02:42:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T09:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/impressions\/?p=6047"},"modified":"2017-07-04T22:34:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T04:34:11","slug":"thailand-2017-hong-island-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/2017\/03\/04\/thailand-2017-hong-island-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand 2017 – Hong Island trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once you get into any hotel – they have booklets and adds about different day trips that are offered by different companies. The prices differ from $20 to $40, usually. Here they offered trips on longtail boats – they were cheaper, but it would take longer to reach the islands that are seen all over from the beach. So we picked a more expensive trip on a fast motor boat, which had a Lithuanian flag on it:\"\"No, we didn’t know about the flag beforehand. And all our boat travelers were exclusively Chinese. Nothing bad, they are quiet company, but…definitely not a fun company, mostly do not speak English and are not used to chatting and getting acquainted.\uffc2\uffa0 \"\"So we saw some islands on the way and had three stops in different beaches on Hong Island and others. Obviously, the trip is very popular – see how many boats are docked, consequently – how many people are trashing the fragile and small islands… \"\"This is the entrance or more precisely\uffc2\uffa0 -the exit of the Blue Lagoon of Hong island: \"\"Here is our last beach, pleasant, but no corals, only very small stripped fish that were neither fancy not interesting at all. The beach itself was fine, too many people for my taste:\"\" \"\"This creature -\uffc2\uffa0 it was maybe more than a meter long-\uffc2\uffa0 a Varan, I guess it is called, was the biggest excitement of our trip. They are living freely there and reminding us of Jurassic park: \"\"Look how many people the boats unloaded at one time in the small beaches, I think it is crazy, but some even managed to lay down in between others walking feet: \"\"In totality – I was disappointed in that trip, they advertised snorkeling which consisted of giving us the masks…but not taking to coral reefs and not letting us see the beauty of the under water world…This was another life’s lesson – do not assume!\uffc2\uffa0 Stop assuming! For we took such a trip in Koh Chang years ago – they advertised snorkeling as well and fulfilled their promise by taking us to amazing coral reefs where I saw the most amazing fish and sea urchins, etc. in my life. I guess – there are no corals in Andaman sea left, all are already damaged by the crowds, by the civilization…\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once you get into any hotel – they have booklets and adds about different day trips that are offered by different companies. The prices differ from $20 to $40, usually. Here they offered trips on longtail boats – they were cheaper, but it would take longer to reach the islands that are seen all over … Continue reading Thailand 2017 – Hong Island trip<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand","category-travel-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6047"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6349,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6047\/revisions\/6349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}