Blogs from Ko Phi Phi Leh, South-West Thailand, Thailand, Asia

Phi Phi Island : The Beach ! Phi Phi Island is the top destination for traveler and backpacker for many years because the crystal sea shinning and White sand beach specially Maya Bay (The Beach) the first attraction for all time. This Video Clip I will bring you to explore all of Phi Phi Leh such as Monkey beach , Pileh lagoon , Viking cave and Maya bay. But most of tourists think that Phi Phi island is number one paradise island of Thailand, Actually they are wrong. The number one paradise island and real the beach in Thailand is "Similand island" (you can google it). I can't go there because that so far (3-4 hr. for heading) Similand island is isolated from human world that why i call real The beach (real Paradise on Earth) ... read more

Phi Phi Ley (Maya Bay, Viking Cave, Pileh Cove, Lih Samah Bay) 2007 Tagesausflug... read more

Hiiiiiii! Last Saturday we got ready for the Full Moon party and boarded a speed boat - with our brightly coloured full moon party tops - to take us across to Koh Phangan - although this certainly felt like an undercover mission and it was not so reassuring that most of the boat crew seemed to be drinking bottles of Chang beer! When we arrived, we had some body paint done and wonderered around the busy streets (certainly backpackers central!) in search of alcohol buckets - the red bull was lethal!!. The actual beach was full of people firedancing and chilling to music and there was even a designated sleeping zone! After a night of partying on the beach and meeting a few other backpackers we got the speedboat back to Koi Samui where Issy had ... read more

Ko Phi Phi Don had ons niet weten te overtuigen wat stranden betreft. We dachten naar Krabi te vertrekken.. maar dat ging niet door ;-) We hadden ons uitgecheckt en onze zakken opgeborgen en wilden nog een beklimming doen naar de view point. En wat een zicht! Onvoorstelbaar mooi eiland als je het van boven bekijkt! Tijdens de lunch werden we aangesproken om een tour mee te doen en we lieten ons overtuigen voor 250 Baht per persoon. Gelukkig maar! Op een typische longtail boat zijn we langs Monkey Beach gegaan en zo verder tot Ko Phi Phi Leh. Daar zijn we gaan snorkelen, wat leuk was, maar .. de gids had wat meer info kunnen geven.. Karel probeerde te gaan staan en het krioelde daar van de scherpe zee-egels met zeer lange pinnen. Zes pijnlijke ... read more

Niki returned the next day and we had a fairly relaxed last couple of days on Phi Phi, enjoying beers on the beach, walking up the viewpoint and laying in hammocks arouund the island. Niki got in a couple more fun dives and we decided for our last night in Phi Phi we would do an overnight camping trip to Maya Bay on Phi Phi Ley, the smaller neighboring island. Maya bay is made popular by the Leonardo DiCaprio film "The Beach". Its an amazingly busy beach during the day, with hundreds of tourists catching longtails over or taking chartered boats to the beach for the afternoon to swim, snorkel and lay in the sun. I'd been warned by a lot of people that it was a huge tourist trap in the day and that you'd ... read more

In the movie, ''the Beach'', Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio) is an American college student in Thailand for the summer. A guy who is in Southeast Asia with the intention of experiencing something radically different from his familiar life. Eventually he finds ''the Beach''. Oh well .... :-) And now we are here at Maya Beach. Koh Phi Phi Ley is the second largest island of the archipelago, the largest one being Ko Phi Phi Don. The island consists of a ring of steep limestone hills surrounding 2 shallow bays, the Maya Bay and Loh Samah.... read more

KO PHI PHI Oh dear! Ko Phi Phi what have you done?! This place should be paradise but instead it's a tourist-run, over-priced craphole! I spent two nights in Krabi town at Pak Up Hostel (I should've stayed longer - Krabi was a cool little town) and then on Friday 2nd I ferried over to Phi Phi Don Island where I stayed until Wednesday 7th. Even as I write that I'm still not sure how and why I stayed there that long! I arrived at the pier on Ton Sai Bay on the south side of Phi Phi Don and no sooner had I stepped off the ferry were they already asking for money - 20 Baht "island cleaning and maintenance" fee - a complete joke given that the island is full of empty beer cans ... read more