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Published: April 11th 2008
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ok slowly catching up with this blog, once i've done this one i'll only be a week behind!!!
after my week on ko tao thought it was about time i moved on. me ck, jon and rosie decided to head over to ko phi phi over on the other coast. we caught the night ferry from tao to the mainland which was a crazy experience. for some reason the TAT we brought the ticket through recomended we get the boat to chumsomethingorother rather than surat thani, which turned out pretty gd as the one to surat thani was packed with tourists where as are boat had us 4 and bout 6 thai people on it. so we got plenty of room on the mattresses on the floor. i didnt sleep at all cos i seem to have some inabillity to sleep anywhere bar a bed. it was all gd as spent the night watching an awesome lightning storm in the distance. half way through the night it got a bit choppy and the boat started bouncing around a bit. we hit wot must have been a big wave and the whole boat slammed down which caused all the lights to
go off and the engine to cut out!!! c.k and rosie started bricking it thinking we were gunna sink and this was the titanic of thailand!! it was quite funny seeing them brick it!! the rest of the journey went with out insident and we got to phi phi about mid day.
koh phi phi was pretty awesome, there was a pretty busy little town on the sand bar in the middle of the island with a beach either side and lots bars and places to eat. compared with my time on tao i was a busy little boy!! the first day we did a tour of where "the Beach" was filmed. we started with a bit of snorkelling, there were so many fish and corals and sea fans, it was sweet as!! the long tail driver told us to swim to this whole in the cliff, not really knowing why we clambered through and followed this path through some trees and then "the beach" opened out in front of us, proper felt we discovered this lost beach!!! ma ya bay where it was filmed is really nice, it has these big limestone cliffs surronding this bay, proper gd
like!!
whilst i was there we picked up a couple of other people in what was becoming quite a big group. c.k and jon had a friend, andy, from wellington there at the same time. he was a geordie and about as geordie as you can get except he wasnt that fussed about football which isnt very geordie like!!! we also picked up a guy called drew on the ferry over and a girl called alice who was taggin along with andy. it was pretty cool as there was always some one about to do something.
the 2nd day me and andy went and did some cliff jumpin. i always forget how i dont handle heights very well and before we clambered to the top of this cliff i was well up for it. to get to the top you had to climb up and this cliff wasn;t like in the uk where the rocks are all smooth the surgace of this cliff was pretty much made out of daggers so if u slipped u were rubber ducked!!! so i got to the top all confident thinking hell yeah then our guide was like ok come over here
and jump. now over here was this little out crop of rock 6m high that like the rest of the cliff was all bobly hand trying to get ur balance was tricky especially when the vertigo kicks in and everything seems to sway, and the wind picked up and it starts to rain. but there i was with load people behind me and i dont think i've bricked it so much in a long time!! after a couple of minutes of standing there pyscing my self up i jumped and twas f-ing awesome!!! with the adrenalin pumping i was like hell yeah lets do it again then i got to the top again and bricked it once more. i managed to do 2 jumps from the 6m cliff. andy who was still bit pissed from the night before,with a bashed up face to show for it after he did a spectacular face plant trying to walk home, did about 6 and did one from the higher cliff that was 15m!!! thats like i dunno how high but there wasnt a hopin hell i was gunna jump off that one!!!!
to my older readers this wont mean much but sat in one of the beach bars there, i met john paul from hollyoaks!!!!! i even touched his hand and everything!!!! its just a shame none of the holyoaks girls were with him!!!!
so all in all phi phi was pretty action packed, it was a fun little island.
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