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Published: April 15th 2010
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We stayed 2 more nights in Chumphon as Jakki still felt awefull and could barely get the energy to eat or move, just sleep sleep and more sleep, but on the 4th day she just sprung up, got a private car sorted for us, checked out and off we went. The car was great, a mini bus with a movie screen at the front and DVD's to chose from, so we watched movies the whole 4/5 hours to Krabi. Jakki wasn't much better just some really strong will to get out of that crappy town and to somewhere nice for us. We had the dates of the water fight and new year wrong too and it was to be the next day so we had a day to settle in before the fun began. We got a longtail boat from Krabi pier to Railay, it's not an island but a peninsular that you can't reach by road and wow it's beautiful. It's one of the best climbing sights around with amazing overhangs, stalegtites and caves all around, and made up of east bay, west bay and the cave bay.
We landed on east bay which is a bit muddy and where
all the boats come in, there is no pier and the sea was only knee deep going our quite far, so a tractor backs into the water to pick you and your luggage up to take you to dry land, hehe.
We trecked over to west beach which is a beautiful white sanded cove with cliffs either side, but everywhere was fully booked or about 100 quid a night so as Jakki was looking like she was going to kill if a room wasn't found soon, I begged the man from the hotel to drive us back to east bay in his golf buggy (no vehicles or roads in Railay!)
We checked into the nearest nicest place on east bay and it was absolutly gorgeous. We had our own little cabins with aircon, soft double beds, fluffy pillows, nice wooden bathroom, the lot, oh and our own pool, woopee!
The next day was the water fight and Jakki had managed to eat a few little meals so was up and about. All the staff from our hotel were out the front with a massive water butt and buckets and pistols and bottles just drenching anyone who walked passed, regardless of
weather they had cloths, backpacks, cameras, phones or anything else on, even mums with pushchairs were getting watered a bit. Clever people had everything in plastic bags and old ladies carried an umbrella and a scowl. So instead of getting attacked ourselves, our tactic was to wear swimwear and nothing else and to join the Thai massive. So much fun, so so so fun. We got everyone who walked passed, who had probably been got by everyother thai along the road. It was like a battle field, outside every building, around every corner was someone with a water butt, a gang and some weapons, among the weapons was also prickly heat powder mixed with water which was smeared on peoples faces as they passed!
By late afternoon it was starting to get a bit mad and no one really went out anymore as you couldn't walk 5 metres without being ambushed. Little kids had water guns bigger than themselves and some young thai boys started filling buckets with ice and water which is a real shocker when it goes down the back. Great day, great new year!
We all went for dinner that night and there was fire shows and
fire works and big, big, grand buffets with fruit carved into flowers and every kind of fish and food you can imagen to eat.
Jakki is nearly 100% again now, phew, so we are all really happy she can start enjoying her holiday again, just 5 days left of the Perrins 😞
We all had a lovely day lounging around the pool yesterday eating nice food and drinking cold cold beers and today we went to the hidden cave beach on the peninsular. It was beautiful and surrounded by climbing rocks and caves and white sand and hidden lagoons. We sttled down all ready to go swimming when a little thai girl pointed out a little jelly fish, so I went for a walk along the shore first and ended up seeing about 10 little jellyfish. I'm not a fan of jellies at all so we both walked round the bay to see what was arund the corner. We saw a thai man with a spade, whacking something in the water and then as we got closer we saw him hacking up and dragging out of the surf what looked like loads of jelly fish, it turned out it was
just one big one and he'de caught and killed it and buried it as they were obviously pretty dangerous, it was about a 2 foot diametre. On the way back we saw another one being dragged in, so we cleverely decided against swimming in that sea although the sea was full of people but I think they were all just bloody nuts!
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