The trip from Koh Phangnan to Phuket is a complicated one. We started in the morning in the back of a pickup truck, rattling around on our way to the port at Thong Sala. From there we took the ferry to Chumporn, at which a large bus was waiting to take us to Surat Thani. [...]
To anyone stupid enough not to want to spend an hour in a space roughly equivalent to half a refrigerator, 2,500 feet up, in the same airspace as jumbo jets and other planes piloted by students, I can tell you it’s pretty weird. So weird, in fact, I didn’t take any pictures, but I did manage to have a go on the controls. There’s nothing quite like banking, looking through the window and realising that nothing more substantial than a Mini door stands between you and a shockingly long drop.
