water no get enemy

two years ago, the columbia urban design squad passed through kao lak, on a bike trip from chumphon to krabi in southern thailand. I was flipping through some pictures the other day, wondering what has become of the places and people we met along the road. kao lak is one of the towns on thailand's andaman coast that suffered a lot under the tsunami.



while I had been on the road for two weeks (on the east coast), this was just day two for the buddies, on their first ever bike trekking... most of the day we stayed close to the ocean, for a relaxing ride on relatively flat coastal plains, scenery of chunky limestone outcrops in the distance.



jan and rennie during a shady break on the road, john and tomo on the beach at the end of the day, and marc with a mysteriously agressive itch-attack in the hut at night...



we rented two huts at one of the many resorts in kao lak - and more under construction as we noticed along the road - catering more specifically to the diving crowd, still less crowded and less concrete than nearby phuket.



the next morning, before heading down south to phangnga, we followed a rough guide suggestion and biked through several miles of rubber plantations for a superb breakfast. in a superbly peaceful place, on the edge of the water.
water no get enemy sings fela kuti...