South East Asia - Day 7 🇹🇭
After arriving in Pattaya yesterday, we got ready in the morning and went down for breakfast. As usual, even this hotel had a great breakfast spread. We were scheduled to take the Coral Island (Ko Laan) tour today. A tuk-tuk arrived to take us to the beach. We reached there and had to wade through the water to reach the speedboat which was going to take us to Coral Island. There were about 20-25 people with us. Our first stop was parasailing. We had to climb aboard a floating platform where parasailing could be done at extra cost. We were, of course, more than willing. We watched in awe at the precision and timing with which the people were handling the activities. As soon as a person came in for a landing, a group of people would attack him/her and get the harness off, one person would lead the person who has just landed away, while another group would attach the harness to the next person waiting in line who would be lifted off his/her feet almost instantaneously. And all this within a time frame of 5-10 seconds while the boat pulling the harness and parachute is still moving ahead in the water. Soon it was my turn and before I knew it I was in the air being led by the boat for a loop round; it was like flying really. ...