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Published: June 24th 2007
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My Hammock !
Larry had to wake me from that hammock not long after i took the picture, i was lying in it after the sun set and was wrecked from snorkelling. I have to say it was pretty uncomfortable, it was cheap and made from a fishin net. Anyway some cusions sorted that out ! Right then. its been a while since me last blog so what have i been up to ......... ?
Well we left Chaing Mai pretty much after my last blog, except that night i dd do a bit of rock climbing which was excellent. I havent climbed in ages (and i aint no regular) so it was pretty tought going. I didnt ring the bell at the top but i was one move away from it. We had a wicked time, we paid like $10 AUS to climb on it for like an hour, but really they let you climb till you are too tired to climb anymore. we were on it for ages. i didnt climb on the overhang, cause it was way too hard. Lee a guy we were travelling with for a bit tried, but the picture of him (red top) thats as far as he got. I markupped a pic to show you where i got to. it was tought going, especially when your not used to it. every consequent climb i just had less and less energy. Thye first attempt i went up a tricky side, got about halfway up and my chalk bag
fell, this wasted precious energy cause i had to go back down for it. Anyway no excuses!
So anyway after that we headed back down to Bangkok, and again met up with Joe but this time we got to meet Joes's girlfriend Emma. Robbie alas went to the island by himself, so will probably have to wait till oz to meet up with him again.
Well this time we stayed on the Khao San Road. Which is exactly whateveryone says it is ..... ! We took it easy in Bangkok this time, seen all the usual things there and really couldnt waith to get out of it.
Anyway after this we decided to do some islands. So we went to Ko Phanghan. We knew to expect tourist central and we found it. First night we stayed as some dodgy Dutch guys guesthouse in a proper shithole of a room. On the dirt outside would have been more comfortable, but hey it was only for one night. It was right on the beach, but there was no beach. it was al rocks and a little bit of coral. I went snorkelling whern the tide came in that evening,
but it was really not even worth typing about. Anyway we decide to move over to the other side of the island to get in a moon party. As most know on Ko Phanghan, they have th moon partise on the beaches (full moon being the biggest, half mon and Eclipsed Moon). We were there for the Eclipsed moon which was a good craic. We stayed in a guest house down the bweach from the main party area and started to drink most of the day. Things got outa control when we switched to drinkin the buckets. (sound obvious really but a bucket is generally a bucket, size the same as ya make sand castles outa, and the fill it with say vodka redbull and 7up. Anyway things get messy when you switch to those ! So right you get the idea, i was pretty drunk that night ..... mot proud of it ma but ya know ya need to let the hair down every once in a while. Anyway lets get to the point, later that night we went up to the main party area up the beach, i managed to lose Laura for a while as i went
Lee trying the overhang !
Unfortunatly this was as far as he got. but he had bee up to the top of the other one twice ! off to the bar, sp spent about an hour looking for her, found her and it started to rain. So everyone ran for cover and i ended up stuck in a bar and wanted to get out. it was jammers, so i decide to hop over the railing to get out, only like a meter high railing. i put my hand on what i thought was the railing (but instead it was a stack on deck chairs) hopped over and it came out from under me. i fell on me side and now i have cracked ribs. NOt sure of the exact damage, but it hurt as hell. after that i went back to the bar lookin for larry, ended up taking $hit with some old Germans about nothing, found larry later and i wentt home.
Anyway I spent the next few days resting me ribs. I didnt get an x-ray but i reckon its only a crack at the most. There is no point in going to the hospital, as only time will make it better. To be honest it only really hurts when i sneeze, cough, lie down or if larry makes me laugh !
So
The dreaded Road !
Khao San Road i all its glory ! after a few more days in Ko Phanghan we decided to head down to Phuket, which was resort hell. Now i dont mean hell like it we had a bad time there, i mean hell cause its just like every resort town around the world, big hotels, more tourists than locals, and crazy prices. We stayed there a few days, and then headed to the island of Phi Phi. First off the beach was not shot on Phi Phi, it was shot on a small island just off Phi Phi, and the beach is called Maya beach. Why am i so interested about the beach, well Larry bought the book (which was excellent, so much bette rthan the movie as they generally are) and we both read it. After reading it we watched the mvie, which was dissapointing, thought funnily enought i enjoyed before i ead the book !
So yeah, Phi Phi we had a decent time there. We took a snorkelling tour which was amazing. The reefs were unnaturally beautiful and the amount of fish !! wow and all the species, i could have kicked myself for not buying a disposable underwater camera.we took a longboat around
to 4 or 5 different reefs and we visited the most beautifukl beach i have ever been on ! the pictures say all ! Anyway the last reef we went to was called 'shark reef' because you get alot of reef sharks there. Its a really good place to spot them, and most tour companies will offer your money back if you dont ! So at first i was brickking it cause hey a shark is a shark after all ! but i was reassured that it would not attack me, and if it did it would at most only bive me a nasty love bite ! they usually only eat fish about the size of you hand, and they are only a meter to a meter and a half long. anyway i thought to myself, i had better go earn my 'man points' for the day and so i put on my flippers, skorkle and mask and jumped overboard. All i can say after that is WOW. it was just like tose undewater documentries you see on tv. I didnt ee a shark, but another guy beside me did. i chased after looking for it but it was gone.
There is something perculior about looking swimming for a shark, something not right, but at the same time i really wanted to see one bad ! anyway, another time perhaps !
Right then, next we went to Krabi where i am writing this from. We went to Ao Nang beach, had a swim, and came home. Tonight we plot where we are off to next, somewhere south we thinks !
Thanks again to everyone reading this. Please leave some comments as we love to read them, and a special shout out to my little cousin Liam. No doubt you will be setting off on your own adventures soon enough, and it will be me reading your travel blog ! anyway have a good one and dont let Nora give you too much grief ! Ha, give her me best, and send me an e-mail sometime telling me how you are and what your up to ! my address is ruairimolloy@hotmail.com
Oh yeah and Rachael bevis, you argumentative little red head ! it was the main island of Phi Phi where the palm trees were being cut down for development ... not the beach where they filmed the
movie. That, as i tld you is a protected island ! Ha ha, dont be arguing movies with the movie master.
As for the rest of you meeting us in Bali in like 5 weeks, you know who you are, how lucky you are, and i look forward to it myself.
Bye for now. More to come !
oh yeah, larrys blog is
www.travelblog.org/bloggers/larros
its way more funny than mine you gotta check it out especially the pic of captain 'cracked ribs' molloy !
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laura jane
captain 'cracked ribs' molloy
hurry up and heal ya ribs! im sick of carrying the BIG bag! larry