Sexy and funny artist Marisa Papen, Koh Kood, Thailand, Jasper Suyk. 2015

Breakfast in the jungles of Thailand

Baan Phuean Koh Kood Boasting garden views, Baan Phuean Koh Kood provides accommodation with a garden and a balcony, around a few steps from Ao Ngamkho Beach. This property offers access to a terrace, free private parking and free WiFi. The property is non-smoking and is located 800 metres from Sai Daeng Beach. Featuring mountain views, the guest house comes with a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, air conditioning, a seating area, a wardrobe and 1 bathroom. Towels and bed linen are provided in the guest house. For added privacy, the accommodation has a private entrance and is protected by full-day security. As an added convenience, the guest house offers packed lunches for guests to bring on excursions and other trips off-property. The area is popular for snorkelling and bike tours, and car hire is available at Baan Phuean Koh Kood. An indoor play area is also available for guests at the accommodation. Klong Chao Beach is 1.4 km from Baan Phuean Koh Kood, while Klong Chao Waterfall...

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Top 10 Must-Visit Islands in Thailand: Paradise Uncovered

Thailand, with its azure waters, palm-fringed beaches, and vibrant culture, is home to some of the world's most stunning islands. If you're dreaming of an island-hopping adventure, here's a curated list of the top 10 must-visit islands in Thailand that promise a slice of paradise.

Phuket:

Known as the "Pearl of the Andaman," Phuket is Thailand's largest island and a prime destination for beach lovers and party enthusiasts alike. From the bustling Patong Beach to the serene Mai Khao Beach, Phuket offers diverse experiences.

Koh Phi Phi:

Made famous by the movie "The Beach," Koh Phi Phi is an archipelago featuring pristine beaches, crystal-clear waters, and vibrant coral reefs. Phi Phi Don and Phi Phi Leh are the main islands, offering breathtaking landscapes and lively nightlife.

Koh Samui:

A tropical haven in the Gulf of Thailand, Koh Samui combines palm-fringed beaches with lush rainforests. Relax on the powdery sands of Chaweng Beach, explore the iconic Big Buddha, and experience the island's vibrant nightlife.

Koh Tao:

Divers and snorkelers flock to Koh Tao, renowned for its vibrant coral reefs and diverse marine life. This island, also known as Turtle Island, provides a laid-back atmosphere, making it perfect for those seeking a tranquil escape.

Koh Chang:

Nestled near the Cambodian border, Koh Chang is Thailand's second-largest island. With dense jungles, waterfalls, and secluded beaches, it's a haven for nature lovers. White Sand Beach and Lonely Beach are popular spots to unwind.

Koh Lanta:

For a more relaxed and authentic Thai experience, head to Koh Lanta. This island, consisting of several smaller islands, offers a perfect blend of serene beaches, traditional fishing villages, and lush jungles.

Koh Phangan:

Known for its famous Full Moon Party, Koh Phangan also boasts pristine beaches, dense jungles, and vibrant coral reefs. Beyond the party scene, explore the island's natural beauty, including Thong Nai Pan Noi Beach and the Phaeng Waterfall.

Similan Islands:

A diver's paradise, the Similan Islands are a group of nine islands in the Andaman Sea. Renowned for their crystal-clear waters and diverse marine life, these islands offer some of the best diving and snorkeling experiences in Thailand.

Koh Kood:

Escape the crowds and discover the unspoiled beauty of Koh Kood. This island, located near the Cambodian border, is known for its secluded beaches, lush landscapes, and cascading waterfalls like Klong Chao.

Koh Samed:

Close to Bangkok, Koh Samed is a popular weekend getaway. With powdery white sands and turquoise waters, it offers a tranquil escape from the bustling city life. Explore the picturesque beaches of Sai Kaew and Ao Phai.

In the heart of Southeast Asia, Thailand's islands beckon with their natural beauty and cultural richness. Whether you seek vibrant nightlife, water adventures, or peaceful retreats, these top 10 must-visit islands in Thailand promise a paradise waiting to be uncovered.

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Bubblegum Black: For A World Without Gold - Chapter 1 is now live! (& Author's Commentary

It's the first of its kind: A BGC x Black Lagoon crossover, a new paradigm in cyber-powered hyperviolence and waifus swearing like drunken sailors! A new kind of war - A new kind of Crisis!

...Oh, right, I said I'd put in some metacommentary here, in the author's notes, right? Yeah. Time to do that. In essence, I'm going to run through every bit of technobabble or characterization piece that readers might be confused by, and just address them. I am, however, assuming some elementary knowledge of BGC and Lagoon (I will not abbreviate it to BL I simply refuse to fall into the path of degeneracy it will not happen). If there's an element from that you don't know about, uh... read the wiki? Or watch either show, they're both great.

Koh Kood Island: There's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot of Roanapur's actual location in Thailand. It's near the Cambodian border, it's on the water, it’s got a bridge running to it - it’s Koh Chang Island, it has to be. Sure, the real island is steep and forested, sure it’s a mile away from the mainland (one helluva bridge!) but the island is just big enough to house a medium-sized city like Roanapur if you level it out a bit via the powers of Dramatic License. Koh Kood is an island adjacent to it, closer to the Cambodian border. So the scene of the action is close to Roanapur, still in Thai waters, but not that close.

Stemjack and the Cybersuite: Lingo for the usual cyberpunk plug n' play neural interface port. Cyberpunk 2077 may have them in the wrists, but in this particular cyberpunk-y universe they're a much less well-realized piece of technology. That's because most people, as their default information-interface replacing the smartphone, use the 'Cybersuite', an amalgam of several technologies: soft augmented-reality lenses grafted onto the corneas ('corneals' to actualize a 'holofeed' in the 'holocloud', a kind of augmented-reality internet), jawbone-induction microphones and speakers ('mastimikes'), and finger-and-palm haptic sensors to make AR objects interactable by touch ('phantomics'). All this is as cheap and ubiquitous as, well, a smartphone, and in that case who needs a neural interface for anything besides synchronizing with heavy machinery, which requires neural rewiring and training if said machinery isn't humanoid? Absent downloading-information-directly-into-the-brain technology, which isn't quite realized here, there just isn't a huge need outside of military applications or more exotic cybernetics, I think.

Strikesuit Tech: Shape memory polymer artificial muscles are a thing already, albeit unrealized in industrial applications, as is foamed-alloy armor. The Strikesuit is slightly on the heavy side for what it is, especially compared to a Knight Saber hardsuit. It's a relic from before Boomers became common in American-aligned militaries across the world, one of those things that of course Eda would sell for the price of a small car.

NBC Sealing: Short for Nuclear, Biological, Chemical sealing, usually used to refer to armored vehicles.

Kerenzikov: A leftover reflex booster from the Cyberpunk franchise, less cool in all ways compared to the Sandevistan that plays such a big part in Edgerunners. Say that the Kerenzikov is still a reflex booster, but one that's a little less severe in how much it boosts the body and the brain into overdrive.

SSW40’s: Rheinmetall, the gentlemen who make the Abrams’ main cannon, have decided to diversify, apparently, and aside from semi-autonomous 50mm guns for lighter armored vehicles, they’re also working on magazine-fed 40mm grenade launchers. That means more ammo capacity than the current standard M32 / Milkor MGL, and a higher-velocity round because it isn’t a revolver-action, and better reloading ergonomics because, again, not a revolver. That’s the SSW40. Ancient by the time of this fic, but if it saw use in World War 3 it’ll probably see action in Roanapur again, just like Revy’s strikesuit, give or take an update for airburst programming. Also, it felt like a cool update to her old M79.

Saber 5: Read my previous completed fic, Anatomy of A Lovedoll, to know who that fifth Saber is. Or just wait till Chapter 2 comes out. Either way you’ll find out soon enough.

Absolu: A very clear knockoff of France’s largest company, petrochemical giant Total. I do think humanity will get off of petrochemical reliance for the most part save in places where it’s irrationally culturally engrained by midcentury, but it’ll probably be too late to stop the really bad effects of climate change from kicking in (fuck, most of Canada’s forests are burning down as I write this, West and East now). Companies whose bread and butter is commodity extraction will still find ways to poison local environments with stuff like rare-earth mining, if I had to take a wild guess, but hey at least they won’t be shitting x number of gigatons of carbon into the atmosphere annually! Baby steps.

Necessary Evil: Another bit I borrowed from Anatomy. Saber White has never said this in the actual series, but the way I’m writing her, this is something she would say and has said. Which runs contra to how she’s characterized in the OG series’ OVA 8, according to some people, but dammit this is my fic I’ll misinterpret things as I please.

Manhattan: Has anyone here ever read the cyberpunk-ish novel Blackfish City? Anyone know what happens to NYC in that book? Well, I decided to rip that off. Fuck it, here’s the lowdown: Sea levels rose, NYC had a seawall, and then the usual gaggle of postfascist Christian extremists blew up the seawall to flood ‘Liberal Sodom’, and the government did very, very little to help as the city died in bits and pieces, probably because said government was also run by postfascist wackos who saw NYC as the enemy. That time, and that place, are where Revy grew up. Even more unpleasant than her old backstory, yeah?

Red Fraction: I know Revy has a playlist she uses when she’s doing premediated killing. I know Gen Urobuchi put a Rage Against The Machine song on that playlist for the 90’s. But this fic is set 70 years after that time; what the flippedy dippedy was I supposed to do for Revy music? Make shit up? Endless fictitious Black Metal groups? So, in the spirit of a Big Grand Opening, I decided to go for Lagoon’s anime OP. Because it’s such a Revy song, isn’t it? Aggressive, profane, swaggering, and all the same just a little defensive (These aren’t tears / don’t let them trick you). Every part of it feels like a song Revy would sing. So if I was opening with Revy, I had to back that up. Shit, I might sync fight scenes to music more often after this, too.

Riot Boomers: I visualized some very Five Star Stories looking mecha for this particular not-in-the-actual-series Boomer, very exaggerated and top-heavy. I don’t know why.

In the land of the blind…: This is one of the best action movie one-liners I have come up with, like, ever. I’m so proud of it.

The Doberman: The Doberman is probably the scariest-looking Boomer in all of BGC, and it gets only a bit part enforcing order in the opening of OVA 5. So a) I thought I’d bring it back as a scary threat and b) thought I’d rip it to bits with ease so the reader gets an idea of how goddamn powerful the Sabers are in this fic, how after about a year and a half of operation their hardware and tactics are such that they can render one caught-off-guard hunter-killer unit so much nanotech meat and scrap. So maybe it should be a tougher fight realistically, but I wanted to show off. Forgive me.

Gunship’s The Mountain: No real thematic purpose to this particular bit of music. It just feels like really good opening-to-something music.

Rock’s Mental State: Oofah. Our boy isn't doing so good, is he? In tumblrspeak we'd call him a Sad Blorbo Meowmeowman. For real Lagoon fans (Lagoonatics?), you may be wondering how closely I'm following the events of the anime and the manga after that (I do treat the order of events for the first few arcs as being in the anime's canon not the manga's), and the answer, profound and deep, is a great big 'eh'. That is to say: Everything that happened in the manga / anime happened, with only history-updating changes to the characters' backgrounds and their patron organizations changed. But of course I'm going to deviate from where Hiroe-sensei wants to take what's left of the manga. I don't know what he's doing, and I'm not waiting around for ten years or so for him to finish. So: Roberta got fucked up, Feng Yifei / Li Xinlin has found her home in Roanapur, and Le Majeur did join the Lagoon Company. Where is she now? Um... you'll find out later. Suffice to say that I'm guessing that as of the events of the manga as-is (2023), Rock's been in Roanapur about two years, and as of this fic's timing, he's been around for about three. Things can change a lot in a year, especially in a city like that. As for how closely I'm following the spinoffs, again I give you an 'eh' followed by a belated 'not really'. Initial Stage is too tied up in the geopolitics of the 90's to translate lore well to this fic, and Gore Gore Girl introduces a bunch of characters I don't really care about and so probably won't do anything with (untranslated, but I read about it on the wiki. It seems to be a much sillier series than OG Lagoon and that's saying something.) I think the only non-Hiroe media with events I want to trace are the Gen Urobuchi light novels, since they're amusing fun that introduce new characters without going overboard on throwing wrenches into the plot. Well, except for Shadow Falcon. He's not showing up in this fic for sure. Say he's around, but he's on assignment elsewhere.

Opening Credits: So wayyyyyy back in 1991, the first digital-native anime fanfiction megacrossover, one Undocumented Features, was published by a couple of dudes at Worchester Polytechnic Institute. As you can see, a similar thing was done there, something that I find so funny that I've tried to use it myself for my own fics, using JP voice actors for the main cast like real credits (yeah yeah yeah I know, everyone tells me the Lagoon dub is superior, it's probably better for the Japan arc for sure so I don't have to listen to Megumi Toyoguchi choke out 'Haiy Asuhoru' again, but Roberta's seiyuu does one of the best performances of her career there and you can't convince me otherwise), and throwing up some fictitious production companies into existence to amuse myself and others. If you can figure out what they're referencing, let me know and I'll... eh, I'll be internet-happy. It will, of course, be updated on the AO3 version of this fic as I add in new cast members; so far, all I've got there is characters I know have to show up in the fic, with more to hopefully come along the way (might have to just put in seiyuu names without their characters for a bit of surprise? Eh, you could just look them up then if you really wanted to, we'll see).

Anyway, that's that! Hope you enjoyed the work so far! I've got the next chapter written, it just has to be edited, but to whet your appetite, let me ask you a question: How did Balalaika know how to contact the Knight Sabers? And why did Saber White accept her request?

Be confident 🩵💙😚🐬⛱️🌺🌴🐠🐚🍸

Tout d'abord merci beaucoup à tous ces gentils messages reçus aujourd'hui pour mon anniversaire, je vous aime très fort 🥰

Dernière journée à Koh Kood, passée en beauté ! On notera tout d'abord les talents croissants de Dr Rathatton pour esquiver les éléments étrangers à la route (c'est à dire 5 chiens, 3 singes, un serpent, et une maman et son bébé).

Comme on ne change pas les combos gagnants, nous commençons la journée par un filet d'eau crasseux une jolie cascade (vous savez, celle qu'on n'a jamais trouvée le premier jour ! Quand je vous dis qu'on progresse...). On y découvrira d'ailleurs une réplique de Gollum en slip jaune, brrr.

Mini détour sur le chemin pour rendre visite à deux vénérables de la forêt : 500 ans tous les deux ! A noter qu'il s'agit de racines aériennes, ce ne sont pas des branches ou d'autres troncs ...

On part ensuite vers un petit village de pêcheur, sur le chemin duquel on croisera nos tous premiers siiiiiiiinges !! L'observation fut brève mais intense puisque nous étions sur un scooter en descente, mais je m'en fiche 🥰 clémentine m'offrira le repas dans un restaurant au dessus de l'eau, il est frais le poisson !

On passera ensuite l'après midi dans une plage déserte (avec un monsieur tout nu sur le sable, ça doit gratter!), nous faisons dans l'originalité, avant de partir prendre un petit cocktail devant le soleil couchant se reflétant sur les vagues ...

En bref, une journée idyllique 😍 et demain matin, c'est parti pour le Cambodge, avec nos e-visas fraîchement imprimés en poche !

Koh Kood, a ilha da Tailândia onde o tempo não passa

(Koh Kood, Thailand's island where time does not pass)

Soneva Kiri Library, Koh Kood Island, Thailand

The Soneva Kiri Library is children wonderland on the trees. As part of a hotel resort at Koh Kood Island, this space has been mainly constructed from bamboo and offers meaningful experiences based on ecology, entertainment and education.

Dernière étape (ou avant dernière si l’on compte la dernière soirée à passer à Bangkok) sur l’île de Koh Kood, à une 20aine de kilomètres de la Thaïlande et du Cambodge. Départ à 6h pour une arrivée au premier hôtel en milieu d’aprem, ce qui laisse le temps d’apprivoiser les lieux.

À première vue, on ne regrette pas notre choix d’éviter les îles du sud. Pas de ville, ni même de village, juste quelques hôtels sur le côté ouest de l’île… et beaucoup de plages. Grosse envie de citer du Saint John Perse !

Soneva Kiri Dining Pod, Koh Kood Island, Thailand

Koh Kood, Thailand

Discover the hidden gem of Koh Kood, Thailand - a paradise that will leave you speechless.