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Published: October 9th 2007
So, Eileen finally takes her first steps with her full backpack, mind you it was only a few hundred metres to the end of the street to catch a sawngthaew to the bus station. An air con bus took us to Bangkok Airport at a cost 150 Baht. From there we flew Air Asia on a flight to Krabi to spend a few nights in Krabi Town at the K Guesthouse, which was recommended in a few travel blogs. The guesthouse owner Pojana is a lovely woman who cannot do enough for you, she is very informative about the area and book trips at good prices. Her clean guesthouse is great value at 300baht per night even although you have to endure a cold shower.
Krabi town is seen as a stopover location to the islands but it is worth considering a longer stay as a good base for sightseeing, trips etc. Pojana booked us on a 4 island tour for the great price of 400baht, which would be refunded if the weather was bad.
It rained throughout the night and we assumed there would be no chance of it going ahead, wrong, at 8am our driver picked us up
and took us to the longtail boat at Ao Nang. The rain stopped and we headed off to our first stop, however, just as we were arriving at Poda Island, it started to pour and it poured all day long. At our first stop everyone was sheltering under a couple of trees, I thought this trip was going to be a disaster but as soon as we made our way into the warm water we all started to enjoy it. We ended up having a great day. Never had so much fun being totally “drookit”.
The snorkeling was great even although the water was a bit murky. We also had a laugh sitting on a beach having lunch, while it rained down cats and dogs and I’m talking Bagpuss and Schmicael (great dane in Coronation Street). Wrong spelling, I know.
In KrabiTown there is a fantastic night market with lots of stalls selling delicious Thai food, which is so cheap.
After 3 nights in Krabi Town we decided to seek accommodation in Railay, a place we had visited a few days before. A 40baht bus ride took us to Ao Nang and from there we took a longtail
boat to Rai lay West for 100baht.
At the time of writing 1 British pound =68 baht. Rai lay West has a beautiful beach with soft powdery sand, framed by towering limestone cliffs and up market resorts; however, as we are trying to budget wisely we walked to Rai lay East and found cheaper accommodation the Viewpoint Resort.
The east side is where young good looking backpackers stay mainly for rock climbing, diving, and looking cool at the reggae type bars. We know it is cool here as we still haven’t seen one football top yet.
From the east side there is a path which goes under and around a massive limestone formation and it brings you out at an amazing beach at Phra Nang Bay.
This beach is going to be hard to beat. Many boat trips bring people here in the afternoon but in the morning and late afternoon after they leave you almost have paradise to yourself and swimming here is fantastic.
Around 6pm each evening everyone makes their way to Ray ley West to sit and watch the sunset. Twice we’ve did this but I have to say it’s not nearly as impressive as Prestwick
Pojana
K guesthouse ownerSunsets on the West Coast of Scotland, although here you don’t have to wear a wooly jumper and shelter from the cold.
In Thailand it is classed as the low season, so accommodation is easier to find and at lower prices which is food news for us. Bearing this in mind we decided not to try and pre book accommodation at our next destination which is going to be Koh Phi Phi Don.
We purchased our boat tickets at 350 baht each and it takes about 2 hours.
Final Rai lay headcount Celtic tops 0 Bob Marley look-alikes 6
One other thing, sand gets everywhere about here. Ain”t life a beach.
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Mhairi Logan
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Wow!
Wow, sounds absolutely fantastic, great pictures too!