18/11: First real bike day

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Left Ko Chang early, got the first or 2nd ferry off the island. We wanted to get a headstart to try and bike most of the trip through not too hot weather. We had some target in mind, but were not too sure if it was achievable...From the middle of ko chang to Chantaburi or Laem Sing...in both case certainly we had a good 80km of biking to do from the ferry pier on thai mainland...

Anyway, there is only 1 way and thats forward. So we set off from the pier in Laem Ngop after some "meat-on-stick" & "sticky rice" (which will probably be the main fuel on this trip). Soon we felt that 10am is already pretty hot for biking ;-), some more sunscreen and off we got.

Line had a bit of a hard start. She didn't seem to enjoy the biking all that much...oeps. Luckily after some km which were not going up & down & a cold cola, it got better. The moment we stopped for a fresh watermelon on the side of the road everything was perfect again. We stopped here & there, mostly to drink, eat, put on sunscreen (again) & to rest a bit.

Finally we decided to go to Laem Sing Beach & not Chantaburi (the gem capital of thailand) since from there we should be able to follow the coast until Ban Phe and we don't care about gems anyway...after 80km we finally arrived in the Laem Sing Beach area, but found a bit strange, deserted looking, worn-down beach side bungalow parks with crazy prices for the night...oeps again?

We continued biking in the planned direction for tomorrow (day after?) for another 5km following some hotel & beach posted "Ao Yang" in the hope to find something better...otherwise we would have settled for it, cause we were getting a bit tired.
We arrived at Ao Yang, a very small orange sand bay, with beachside seafood stalls & 1 (again empty?) hotel with discount!
Perfect! Rooms are nice, they have wifi and the drinks are cheap. Had a nice crab, rice dinner looking out into the bay.

Now we can rest our tired bodies with this view. So far, we like thailand...