Jul 11, 2006
Yes the people were fantastic, very friendly and helpful, really nice. I really went mad for all the different foods, and it's all so cheap you can stuff yourself silly, it was great.
Tell you the people I really did find a bit off, were the Japanese and Koreans when we were travelling around the little islands. They locals have great animal conservation and are working really hard, but these guys just didn't care! One moron actually caught a turtle hatchling and took it back to shore, it must have been around 2 weeks old, great so the poor thing after battling it's way out to sea got dumped back on shore and had to go through the whole process again, just so this idiot could take a few 'fun' photos.
Plus there was an amazing fish eagle who had been adopted by one of the local cafes when it was a chick as it had a broken and deformed wing, couldn't fly and would just sort of hop up and down the beach all day, minding it's own business, watching people take it's piccy etc then hop off for feeds at the cafe. This stupid girl starts throwing sticks at it, to try and make it fly, I brought it to her attention that it couldn't and that she should have more respect for animals than to just lob things at them. The mentality of some (not all) of these people is incredible, but I couldn't really expect more from some who just kill and eat everything with no regard for it's endangerment.
Apart from thoes incidents, great time, loved it, want to go back.