Tuesday 23 February Well,we were recommended to detour our schedule and visit Krabi and area, by friends Alf and Marilyn, and we are really glad we took their advice. Although Samui is fantastic and a real chilling place, it has nothing on the Similan Islands of South Western Thailand. Last year we visited Halong bay in Vietnam and were bowled over by it's beauty but the quality of beaches and dramatic tree clad limestone cliffs and islands here make it pale into insignificance. We booked, at huge expense,we may add, a four Island tour ( 400 baht) about £16 excl Park fee. The trip by long tail boats took in Raili Beach, ( a peninsular, not island), Chicken Island (fantastic snorkelling), lunch at 2-Island (named such, although only a shallow white-sand causeway separates them, and lastly,
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