A Busy Few Days

Make yourself comfy, this could be a long one.

So... After arriving on Phang-nan we got up early and went for a walk, supposedly to a waterfall then on to a secluded bay and a fishing town. The waterfall didnt exist, or more to the point it was a bit too dry, but it was a nice bit of scenery anyhows. So we continued on, saw a couple of elephants then arrived at our secluded bay, this was really nice, for the first 15mins we were the only people there, a few more people arrived but it was still beautifully quiet. We had lunch in the fishing town, which was infested with flies then headed back as the sun was setting. We had decided not to stay another night as we wanted to do lots on the west coast. So that evening we caught a night boat to the mainland then got a bus across to the west coast and krabi!

Our first day in krabi consisted of wandering about aimlessly and getting our bearings, we went to the night market in the eve which is epic! Main meals for 60p, satay sticks for 10p, big chang for a pound! Met a couple of aussies that evening at a bar called western bar and irritated them by trying to do a kiwi accent. The next morning we monged a bit then got a midday longtail boat to Railay, which was stunning, huge limestone edifices sprout out of the sea, and the beaches were pristine white. I sunbathed for a bit and had a swim, it was the most remarkable location for a swim ever, shoals of baby fish swimming round your ankles while huge cliffs towered over your head. Spent a lot of time watching the sand crabs playing football, i will post a video of that just below later so you can see what i mean.



Night market again that evening then the next day we went shopping! Lloyd got a spectacular diamond encrusted gold watch for....... 4.50 and i got some gold police sunglasses for 3.50, pure cheap fake tat. Watched a movie in the evening then night market again.

Then yesterday, was one of the best days yet. We rented out scooters (cue mothers cringing) and scooted up to a temple (or wat) called tiger cave temple, saw some monks, and a troop of monkeys frolicing about and doing other naughty monkey things. We went to a buddah statue where people light incense sticks, i lit one.... then a monk came over and said "you must light three, one is bad, one means people die!"...... crap. So we frantically tried to light two more incense sticks, however the cieling fan that was on to keep westerners cool kept on blowing out our matches, the monk was getting increasingly agitated, and we were beggning to strike 3,4 and 5 matches at once to try and light these incense sticks. Both us and the monk were sweating now, the damn ceiling fan wasn't even cooling us down! Eventually, using a bundle of 5 matches we got three sticks lit, and swiftly left!

Next stop was to walk to the summit of a 700m limestone lump, 1300 steps, in 30degrees heat. Sweaty! But the view was well worth it, ill post a video from the summit here later. You could see well out to sea, it was truly stunning. After a rest at the top we descended the steps, this was a lot scarier than going up, but a lot easier on the legs. Re-hydrated at the bottom then hopped back on the scooters and headed over to a national park, there we saw a nice waterfall, not as spectacular as it would be in wet season, but at least this one had water in it! Trekked through the jungle for a bit, and saw nothing but flies. But it was good fun non the less, We got back on the scooters to head home at 6ish and rode off into the sunset towards krabi and the delights of the night market. After pigging out on two main meals for 1.20 we collapsed into bed for some well earned rest. A thoroughly enjoyable day over.

Today has been a lot more relaxed, just had breakfast, going to chill out for a bit longer, then head over to a beach called Ao Nang and maybe watch some Muay Thai boxing. Catching a bus to Singapore tomorrow morning at 6am, so the next blog will probably be coming from Australia! Speak to you all then.

Rich