We travelled from hot, sweaty Bangkok down to the quiet, honest little town of Krabi in Thailand's south-west coast and spent a night to chill out. In Krabi we found time to relax and cool down after Bangkok and enjoyed great night food markets with the Thai food that we'd been missing all that time in London.
From Krabi we splashed out on a tour (our first ever proper tour I think)
The tour went to Koh Tapu (better known as James Bond island as featerd in the man with the golden gun)
and to go kayaking in mangroves
and later riding elephants. A busy day but really fun!
We headed from there off to Koh Jam, a tiny island on route to Koh Lanta - in the Andaman Sea. The island is so small and non-touristy you have to stop from the ferry and be picked up at sea onto a small longtail boat to make the 15 min trip in to the island. It was truly chilled with mostly fisherfolk and farmers.
Check out how nice the beach is here!
This little bar in the picture below was called "FUBAR". Unrelated to the Queen St DNB club of course but a nice spot for a few beers looking out to sea...
From Koh Jam we headed to Lanta - also chilled and cheap and spent days doing absolutly nothing. Getting a bit lazy with regards to laying about - reading so much - although have been excercising daily so not lazy in that respect.
I almost had a nasty nasty accident and thought I'd broken my leg. Oh my gosh. Luckily it was ok just sore and my ankle sprained. That'll teach me to climb dodgy trees :(
Sadly the diving was not so good as the visibility wasn't so good thanks to the winds and waves etc.
Next we went on to Phi Phi - bit of a shock to be had here. Day tourists aplenty and paradise that once was. Saying the place has changed since the tsunami is an understatement. Thousands of people to battle to see the idyllic island although you can still see its beauty and we visited the outer islands with a day boat trip with lots of snorkelling.
Everybody but us on the boat got sick because the wind was up. Lucky escape. Some nice diving and saw some interesting corals, moray eels, lots of butterfly fish and the usual exotics. No pictures as I lost the underwater camera I bought in about 5 mins from taking it into the water :p 1st prize for dopyness there I guess :o
We shot throught from Phi Phi pretty snappy and over to the other side of Thailand to the Gulf of Thailand to Koh Tao. Here it is perfectly chilled, hardly anyone around, still sunny and the diving is superb straight off the beach or rocks wherever you are.
Today we started a PADI course which is cool, so far so good. Had a nasty run in with a local red curry but back in the game now, luckily. Being much more careful now so definitely no broken legs or sick bellies.
Planning on being here for another 5 days or so before heading up to Laos then back this way to mee the Londoners for NYE...
Hope y'all well!
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2 comments:
good times bro... ange advised me via facebook that you've indulged in a drink or two at the banana rock. nice!!! i miss boh and his box of goodies :oP haha...
boh aint there no more seems that there is a new family in charge. about the only residents still at that place are those massive lizard/dragon dudes!
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