Tag: Ao Nang
Photo of the Day 6/12
by Sean on Jun.12, 2009, under Photos, Thailand
Ao Nang, Thailand
This photo was taken on a tiny beach in the southern Thai area of Ao Nang, near Krabi town. You can see the boats moving with the waves as their owners are behind me taking a break from work to enjoy a nice meal. During the day, they act as flat-fee taxis, bringing people from one tiny beach to another upon request. It doesn’t pay well, but if you can pack people onto your longboat, you could earn probably $20 usd a day.
That is what life in southern Thailand is like: slow and poor. You make all your money when the tourists come around, and survive on that until the next season. They don’t show signs of weariness, as their work isn’t so hard or complicated. I think they might just enjoy that kind of life.
Photo of the Day 5/16
by Sean on May.16, 2009, under Photos
Ao Nang, Thailand
Thailand is known for having beautiful beaches with clear, bright blue waters. I took this photo when I was staying in Ao Nang in the south, near Krabi Town. I lost myself in the amazing shades the sunset produced as it got later in the evening. Standing there, I reflected on the hardships I endured getting to that point, and what I appreciated about the area. It seemed like a resort a celebrity would go to, far away from the fast pace of life that makes one go mad and seek nature to ease the mind and soul.
Photo of the Day 5/5
by Sean on May.05, 2009, under Photos
Ao Nang Beach, Thailand
This picture was taken looking out over the sea from the Ao Nang beach in southern Thailand. Ao Nang is about a 40 minute car ride to the west of Krabi town, where tourists are dropped off by buses traveling south from Bangkok via a 12-hour commute. In the summer it is void of foreigners, as they tend to flock to West Railey Beach, reachable from the shore of Ao Nang via a 10 minute longboat ride.
The Misadventures of Sean, Part 2
by Sean on Aug.31, 2008, under Thailand
Ever since the accident I’ve been careful. So careful I missed out on one of the most amazing experiences in life: a speedboat tour of the Phi Phi islands in Thailand. I told myself I have to come back to Thailand one day so I can do this tour. Maya Bay was the filming location for “The Beach,” a Leonardo DeCaprio film. I have rested in bed each day and missed out on the opportunity of swimming and other things.
The staff of the hotel felt bad for me, so the first day they made a 3 or 4 egg omelette instead and didn’t charge me (brought it into my room). The following days they used the hotel truck to drive me to get food and see the doctor 
I am feeling a bit better today because much of the initial shock and pain have subsided. Last night I went to a neighborhood doctor and he took my dressings off and cleaned out all the wounds. Before I saw him I knew my big toe hurt so I couldn’t walk on it, but I didn’t realize until after I saw it that the whole toe was swollen. I asked him to look at it and he determined nothing was broken (obviously, because I could move the toe to walk, but it still hurt). He said it would be fine.
The thing that sucks about living/traveling in third world countries is that they don’t believe Neosporin or bacitracin works. I asked the doctor and several pharmacies in town, and none of them carried it, except one place that wanted to charge me 200 baht for a small tube (about $5). So now I have to use rubbing alcohol and iodine for the next week before I can get home to China and start using the Neosporin (and I hope it won’t be too late for my wounds to heal properly).
Today we are going back to Bangkok. Because of protests in Thailand, the main road from Krabi to Bangkok is closed, so we have to get off at a city 3 hours away called Surat Thani and take a different bus down a different road so we can make it.
Motorbike Accident
by Sean on Aug.29, 2008, under Thailand
This morning we rolled out on our motorbikes with me in the lead. Today was my day to shine, to show my friends I wasn’t useless and could plan a day trip. Everything went as planned. I got us where we needed to go without any problems. Around 1:30 we were leaving the Mangrove Forest Walkway that leads to the Khao Khanab Nam cave to go back home when I had an accident on the bike.
We were in a parking lot and a truck started up the hill to go back onto the street, and 2 of the bikes in my party were already at street level, so i gunned it to beat the truck so i wouldn’t lose my friends. Well, bad luck for me because I hit the ramp at a weird angle and couldn’t turn in time and I went over the mini median and hit a mangrove tree. I was wearing a helmet, but also sandals. The truck driver rushed me to the emergency room because I lost a lot of skin. In the end, I have an abrasion on my left ankle, 2 on my right elbow, one really bad wound on my right palm (you can see a clear layer of skin lost, and a little bit of the muscle), a bad wound on my right knee, and 3 terrible wounds on my big right toe (lost A LOT of skin there). I’ll post pictures when I get back to China since I can’t upload any pictures right now. They gave me good dressing and pain meds and antibiotics, and all I had to pay was 470 baht (about $13).
I had to pay 6520 baht ($195) in damages for the bike 
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