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It's day four of our Honeymoon and Lea and I are only just starting to acclimatise to the weather. After spending 20 hours in aeroplane and airport airconditioning we found the 32 degrees celcius weather and 60% humidity hit us like a freak thunderstorm. We're in Kao Lak, about an hours drive north of Phuket, in a luxurious 5 star resort called The Sarojin. The decadence is extreme when compared with our own humble lifestyle, but excessively opulent when compared to the poverty that surrounds us in the local villages. Luckily, the walls are high enough that we don't have to feel guilty about the bourgeois lifestyle we're pretending to live. But this is our honeymoon, and we're allowed some excesses for the short term. Sure, it may be costing us the equivalent of a deposit on a small apartment, but we wont ever get an opportunity like this again.
So far we've spent our days eating, relaxing by the pool, relaxing by the ocean, more eating, reading our novels, sleeping, bathing, the occasional massage and then more eating. The indulgence is wonderful and like nothing we've experienced before in our lives. I can see myself getting fatter by the hour as I find I'm grazing all day, purely for the taste of Thailand. Before the week is out I will look just like the Michelen man. Without wanting to sound like an entry in the local guestbook, the whole experience is wonderful and I would reccomend it for anyone with a huge bulge in their wallet and plenty of time to chillax.
It's difficult to believe that where we're staying was completely washed away by Tsunami twenty months ago. The Sarojin was only one month away from being opened to the public when it was completely washed away. I get paranoid when i hear a boom or rumble as it could be the shockwave of an underwater earthquake and the start of another tsunami. I get equally paranoid when i see the time going out and wonder if its occuring too fast, when i hear people screaming with delight i assume the worst. I have already imagined myself grabbing Lea and telling her to 'run for the hills'. It's not that i'm scared that this might happen, but rather that i'm very aware that it did happen and find it incredulous to imagine the disaster that once stood where i'm standing.
