I am just continuing on from Cj's post on Koh samui as he forgot to mention the chilli flake incident. I experienced my first chilli to the eye as i some how managed to flick into my socket from my noodle soup. It was sooooooo painful. I didn't realise how bad it was until i literally pulled out a huge chilli flake. Don't ever get chilli in your eye.
Krabi-
We expeinced our 2nd upgrade in krabi. We showed up to 3bees guest house without a booking and lucky for us, they only had the premium room available so the italian owner accommodated us in there for the same price as the regular rooms. It was literally painted in a vibrant orange so the room was extremely bright early in the morning but a nice room with movies and occasionally a hot shower.
The nice beach in Krabi requires a boat ride round the limestone cliff. The narrow speed boat took us to Railey beach. This beach is one of the nicest beaches i have seen so far. The water is clear blue, the sand i so soft and the beach is nestled within a cove so we explored the caves next to the beach. Pure mineral water drips into the sea from the limestone cliff which made our skin feel amazing. We left Railey beach about 6pm to head back to Krabi town for dinner.
It rained heavy the next day so we had a bit of a sunday bed day watching movies (full use of the upgrade). When we did decide to go out we got soaked through, even with our mac's on so this day doesn't have much to tell.
Phi Phi
We left Krabi the next day and got a short boat ride to Phi Phi. Pretty much everyone we have met has told us to go to Phi Phi so we were expecting paradise and because the film 'the beach' was filmed on Phi Phi's Maya bay.
We arrived and yes, from the boat looking onto the beach it looked like paradise. The beach was surrounded by huge lime stone cliffs. The sea was a clear blue and the sand was golden.
We got onto land and was escorted through the tiny town to our hotel. The town is literally tiny. No cars, mopeds or tuk tuk's exist on this island as the roads are simply too small. It's more like walking through narrow alley's full of shops, restaurants, bars an tattoo parlours. There was a buzz here, it was lively and busy, full of just tourists. The thai's seem to just live there for the tourism so it felt like there was way more westerners then thai people.
We settled in our room which was on the ground floor facing the street. It was basic but good enough. We headed to the beach and i felt so confused with the place. We could see why people say it's paradise because it looks beautiful but we were sitting on the beach surrounded by litter left by previous tourists, the sea was very shallow and full of broken coral by the boats which just made the sea full of fumes. It felt like it was once paradise that has now been ruined.
Cj and I joke that we have become eco-travellers (hippies) because we were annoyed with the drunken lads crawling on the floor through the town (its only about 9pm). Phi Phi is quite a big party place, we went to a few bars and ended at the beach club with a dance floor on the sea shore.
To round up what we thought of Phi Phi, we didn't really like it. It was so obviously ruined by western tourism. It was completely not what we were expecting.
On a lighter note, we climbed to the top of the island to the view point and this is where to find the paradise. After seeing places like Laos, our expectations of a beautiful place are a lot higher.
We left Koh Phi Phi a day early to head to Koh Lanta.
Koh Lanta-
Our luck continued and we received our 3rd upgrade to the supreme apartment.
We decided to end our month in Thailand with a nice resort as they are so cheap. We chose escape cabins. The rooms are apartments looking into the swimming pool. Our room had a queen size bed, DVD's and a kitchen. It was so quiet at the resort we pretty much had the pool to our selves.
Our adventurous and exploring side lacked a little on Koh Lanta as we didn't really leave the resort. It felt so nice having a luxury room and a pool that we only went to the beach in the evenings.
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