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Published: January 31st 2016
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With our newly formed Thailand family we decided to go a bit more up market and look for some fancy private rooms a bit further out from the main beach on Phi Phi. We decided on Maney's Resort which was about a 7/10 minute walk from the pier. There are no vehicles at all on the island, not one bicycle or moped in sight, just shit loads of human traffic. Thankfully someone from the resort came to meet us with a "wheelbarrow" for our bags. We probably should have done a bit more research as we were in for a nasty surprise when we arrived at the hostel. The wooden bungalows were beautifully situated in the midst of an uphill jungle scenery, staggered about 20m uphill. Of course, our bungalow was the very top one, and wow those steps were a killer. The first 20 were effort but then they started doubly in height and these little stumps of legs just weren't happy! We still don't know how we managed to make it up those steps after nights out! Painful parts of the night we conviniently blacked out. The view however was unbelievable and we did really feel in the heart
of Thailand.
On our first night I was woken up by the sounds of bashing and clanging on our porch and above on the roof. We were surrounded by monkeys!! We looked out of the window and could see a whole family of monkeys running around and playing with each other. It was amazing being able to watch them up so close and have them interact with us through the glass. We were all too scared to leave the room though so were stuck in there for about an hour! Elliot, the hero, had to come and rescue us in the end and escort us down past the not so aggressive hoard of monkeys.
Phi phi was a really small island, party city really. Loads of mazing streets which were so easy to get lost in. I'm going to be honest here, during the days we did very little. In fact I think most days we didn't wake up until 12 onwards. It really was a party island which means the days are for sleeping and the evenings are for making bad decisions with great people. We did have the odd day chilling on the main beach and
attempting snorkelling although there wasn't much to see so close to shore. The distinctive thing about phi phi is how quickly the tide goes in and out. By day there is very little beach but once it hits 4pm the tide goes ridiculously far out allowing you to walk right out to where before there were boats and now just sand! This made for an interesting setting for the evenings. Lots of running around and splashing in the shallow waters, handstands and games of catch with imaginary balls.
We started most evenings off in Banana Bar. Downstairs is a Mexican restaurant where they do a mean burrito and burger. Upstairs, early evening they show movies on the projector screen with cushions and bean bags to chill on. Later it's all about the beer pong and buckets. Many an evening spent having intense beer pong sessions, USA vs. Europe! 241 buckets became dangerous as well, 400BHT for two... Would be rude no to! One evening resulted in each of us being pinned down on the beer pong table to have buckets poured in our mouths, faces and pretty much all over our fucking body! I don't know why I thought
being a girl, I wouldn't be subjected to this. But what can I expect travelling with all lads. Caleb didn't think twice about chucking me on that table and drowning me in as much booze as possible. Have some ridiculously hilarious drunk memories on that islands but I think those are more suitable for the diary not the blog....
On our last day on the island we decided to hire our own private boat and do a mini tour around the surrounding sights. We paid a few hundred baht each and he was ours for the day. Well worth it! First off we headed to Monkey Beach, which we were a bit less enthused about now we'd had our own private monkey show. Next was Maya Bay, set of the Leo Dicaprio movie, The Beach. They were trying to charge us something ridiculous like 400BHT each just to come on the island, something I'd never paid when I'd been there previously. The beach is a bit of a disappointment anyway, the crystal clear waters and soft white sands are ruined by the hoards of tourists taking selfies and the trillions of boats lined up next to each other. Not
the picturesque scene you see on postcards. We decided to just do a bit of snorkelling around the bay which was awesome as the water was so so clear. Elliot even saw a baby shark! Which did scare half of us out the water. Our driver took us to several other bays, one which had a school of 1000s of fish. I was too cold at this point to get back in the sea and busy mothering the hangover ridden, close to death Caleb. Who knew Americans were such pussies hey ?. We also got to see a whole village of people living in the caves! We couldn't go inside out of respect but could see how they're little town was stretching across metres and heights of the caves. We finished our day watching the sunset from the boat. Such a beautiful and tranquil scene.
3 nights in phi phi was more then enough. The islands had officially ruined us. Empty pockets, heavy heads, and bruised bodies. Time to head back to the mainland for some recuperation.
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