From the middle of the sea
I lugged my MacBook on a flight, a bus ride, a slow boat ride, a truck ride, and finally a small wooden boat ride across a dark sea at night in a mild rainstorm because this place I’m staying has wifi in everyroom. It’s a natural detox center in a bunch of small huts in a middle of a Jungle on an island in the Gulf of Thailand, there is no cellphone reception but there is wifi Internet. So I bring my computer, only to realize later that I forgot the power supply. Doh.
Koh Phangan is well known for its drug-infused Full Moon Party, but tucked in an almost unreachable beach is The Sanctuary, a spa and wellness center whose restaurant serves really tasty, if overpriced (but not really considered the quality) health food. The “cleansing” program is a combinatioin of fasting and daily colonics. We are given a shake every 1.5 hours, all of them concoction of different herbals and supplements designed to clean your insides. No solid food is allowed during the fast, and you’re supposed to 4 liters of water every day.
I’m sitting in a room of old PCs looking out to the jungle with the sound of waves crashing onto the beach. It’s been a stormy and rainy couple of days here, and the weather isn’t as ideal, but it is still paradise. Even in the pitch dark, when we arrived last night, the place is still beautiful. There’s an empty hammock waiting for me.
I doubt I’ll even touch my laptop.