Upon a Dusty Road I Met Another Traveller

I met a fellow South African on the island today! It was rather odd, in that I found him in the middle of nowhere. I went hiking to find Jan Som Bay and Sai Nuan Beach at about midday and I got rather lost while doing so. I ended up wandering around in the middle of some serious island jungle, and I'm talking about "paranoid about finding opium plantations and guys with machetes and headbands" jungle (Paranoia! Dire Straits! :P) here, when I saw this guy under a palm tree looking lost. Anyway, I recognised the accent quickly and soon camaraderie was established. We ended up finding the beach, and I had a swim and snorkeled a bit. Amusingly, the route back to the main town was far quicker and less complicated.