First the Akha have a legend that dogs ate their alphabet, and that is why they have no written language. Sunday we flew to Phuket, the major resort in the south of Thailand. 16 March Phuket is basically a hellhole. Obviously the chase is very abbreviated, mainly involving a wallet. We were in a hotel at Kata Beach, and were not very impressed.
Raw sewage runs into a pond right behind the beach.
Doesn' t really make you want to spend much time on the beach, and I really didn't want to get in the water. Luckily we had a safari booked for Monday morning. It was a 3 hour bus ride to Khao Sak National Park. We stayed at the Treetops resort. The rooms are really treehouses, built around the trunks of large trees 10 or 15 meters off the ground.