Leaving Kata behind I headed to the airport to meet with Liz from Planeterra and Mel - GAP's country manager for Thailand. We then began the 2 hour plus drive up north to Kuraburi and Koh Pra Thong. Kuraburi is a small town that straddles the main highway running parallel to Thailand's West Coast. Before we reached Kuraburi we headed to the local pier where the three of us jumped into a long-tail boat and headed to Koh Pra Thong. We were aiming for the sout...

So let’s start with my journey to Thailand. I was flying with Qatar Airways via Doha to reach Bangkok. Unfortunately a technical fault meant that we were delayed from leaving Heathrow by just about 2 hours. With a short connection in Doha onto my Bangkok bound flight – I with a good group of others, rocked up in Doha to find we’d missed our connection by about 20 minutes. All credit to the Qatari staff, they had us accommodated for the 11 hour wait unti...

So welcome to my blog on my trip to Koh Pra Thong in Southern Thailand. I’ll try to update you on a regular basis so you can see what’s going on whilst I am away… I’ll start this as a day-by-day account but that may well change over time. Bear with me! Firstly to give everyone a point of reference, Koh Pra Thong is the second largest island on Thailand’s west coast – after Phuket. About a 3 hour drive north of Phuket is the town of Kuraburi – t...