Day 62 (Hat Yai)

I woke up not wanting to leave Koh Samui and was sorely tempted to stay on a bit longer. I would have loved the time to myself and the break from the bus, but wasn't sure enough about staying to make a move on signing off the trip. I hadn't done any research on how or when to catch up with the bus if I stayed behind so I sucked it up and got on the bus to the ferry port.

The ferry was a big one and was nice and smooth the whole way across to the mainland. When we were on there Kim passed around the itinerary for Indonesia. I'd established when I got on the ferry that had I elected to stay behind for a week as I had been thinking, that I would have missed Malaysia in it's entirety and the first few days in Indonesia including one of the big things on the trip for me – the equator crossing! Phew!! So glad I didn't go with the knee jerk reaction!

Hat Yai was a lovely place, not a lot to do that we saw, but they had a restaurant serving pizza that wasn't Pizza Hut (if I ever see another Pizza Hut or KFC it'll be too soon). The hotel was lovely, but the reception was fully of mosquitoes because the front door was open. Not the best when you're enjoying sitting there chatting on Facebook to people you miss from home but you're being gnawed alive and coming up in big angry red lumps from the bites. One thing I'm really looking forward to about getting home is the lack of mosquitoes...