{"id":238,"date":"2008-07-16T04:56:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T03:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/07\/16\/ang-thon\/"},"modified":"2008-07-16T04:56:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T03:56:05","slug":"ang-thon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/07\/16\/ang-thon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ang Thon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=lifeblogimage><img src=\"\/WorldTour07\/wp-content\/uploads\/cazkayakat.JPG\"><\/div>\n<p>A distinct lack of taxis had us walking the 6km to town, concerned we were going to miss our boat, and contemplating hiring a moped to get us to the pier on time, but fortunately a Songathew stopped for us and we made it in plenty of time.<br \/>\nAng Thon is the setting for the novel &#8220;The Beach&#8221;, about that traveller&#8217;s nirvana of an off the beaten track place undiscovered and untouched by other tourists &#8211; although I doubt there is any beach in Ang Thon that hasn&#8217;t been invaded by tourists, given the number that we saw. Still, the beauty of the forty or so islands is undisputed. Whilst the water was a bit murky, snorkelling revealed spiky sea urchins and almost luminescent yellow fish. We didn&#8217;t actually need to snorkel to see those urchins as the next stop at a lagoon had plenty in it. After a beach lunch, and giggle at the attempts of some people to kayak and how frustrated they were getting, we took to kayaks ourselves and toured the cliffs and caves of a nearby island. That was our day done, just a ride back to shore with the sun shining and wind whistling past as the boat sped on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A distinct lack of taxis had us walking the 6km to town, concerned we were going to miss our boat, and contemplating hiring a moped to get us to the pier on time, but fortunately a Songathew stopped for us and we made it in plenty of time. Ang Thon is the setting for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/07\/16\/ang-thon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ang Thon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}