{"id":12486,"date":"2014-03-18T15:19:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T15:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=12486"},"modified":"2014-03-18T15:19:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T15:19:46","slug":"lazing-on-lanta-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=12486","title":{"rendered":"Lazing on  Lanta Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-IMG_8473.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12488\" alt=\"1-IMG_8473\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-IMG_8473-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-IMG_8473-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-IMG_8473.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>In fact to be more precise; a lazy day on and by the magnificent beach of\u00a0Klong Dao \u00a0near\u00a0\u00a0Saladan Town. I took a \u00a0barefoot walk to the far end of the beach where I had a fresh coconut \ud83d\ude42 then it was back to the Bee Garden for a two hour massage by the beach the first hour devoted to my feet the next hour to be massaged with coconut oil. I guess I will soon be a coconut.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve now found there is a ferry from this island to Koh Lipe where I can stay the night then a ferry to Langkawi Island which is in Malaysia followed by a ferry to Penang which is connected to the Malay mainland. According to bikemap.net from there to Singapore is 760km so about 10 days at a relaxed pace.<\/p>\n<p>Given the pressure is \u00a0now off ,since I still have \u00a020 days before my flight I&#8217;ve booked myself in for a day of snorkeling around <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phi_Phi_Islands\">Phi Phi island<\/a>\u00a0tomorrow<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In fact to be more precise; a lazy day on and by the magnificent beach of\u00a0Klong Dao \u00a0near\u00a0\u00a0Saladan Town. I took a \u00a0barefoot walk to the far end of the beach where I had a fresh coconut \ud83d\ude42 then it was back to the Bee Garden for a two hour massage by the beach the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-east-asia","category-travel-blog","category-travel-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}