Our easternmost trip so far had been to Sri Lanka.

Pushing  further east  beyond the great Bay of Bengal, here is  for a  first contact, the very touristy and renowned Thailand.

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There, our choice was voluntarily limited  for a  12 day period  visiting the southern region, that of Khao Lak, at a latitude barely further north than that of Sri Lanka.

This region was exactly the most severely affected by the 2004 tsunami for Thailand.

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For us, two wishes  very  banal, contemplate the beauty of the countless islets of the Andaman Sea, and get to know a little of the local life. A challenge for this last point when we know the weight of tourism in the local economy, which  contributes  to hide "real life".  

We have therefore even eliminated the visit to Phuket Town, some 75 km south of our accommodation site.

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For this southern part of the country, like the ripple  of a necessarily Siamese dancer, the isthmus of Kra stretches  in the north-south axis for about 800 km as the crow flies between the latitude of the capital Bangkok to the north and the border with Malaysia to the south.

Its slight convexity faces the Indian Ocean to the west. It separates the latter, locally called the Andaman Sea, over a width of only a few tens of kilometers, from the China Sea to the east, also called here the Gulf of Thailand, off-center part of the Pacific Ocean.