Blogs from Ko Phi Phi Don, South-West Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 13

Ok so I'm not actually blogging from Phi Phi because internet cafe's were a rip off and waited til I got back instead. All started on Friday, the boat left at 2:30 which meant I had to leave school a little early to be in town ready for the pick-up to the port. In typical fashion the weather was glorious in the morning but as soon as me and Jenny (the other volunteer at the school) got into town the heavens opened and the monsoon hit!! Luckily the boat had indoor seating. After roughly 1hr 45mins and an only slightly choppy crossing we were stepping foot on Ko Phi Phi pier ready to pay our 20Baht 'clean up fee' (a measly 50p). From there we followed the directions Jenny was given to our hotel, 'The Orange ... read more

Sasha So I lost my flip flops last night. Okay, I'll start from the beginning. Krabi, a concrete beach town, turned out to be pretty crappy. So, after snorkling on a few surrounding Islands (including the island where the movie "The Beach" was filmed) two people from our group, Mike and Phoebe, decided to stay on Phi Phi island with us for the night instead. We went to dinner at this hole in the wall, mom and pop place and had really good pad Thai there, accompanied by a large Chang beer. Then we went to the beach and watched a fire show at this place called Monken. It was on a roped off area and not as romantic-seeming as when I saw it at Khoa Samed last time. There the guys were tattoo artists ... read more

Bonjour, Bonsoir! Ce fut toute une aventure que de se rendre a Koh Phi Phi avec le night boat! On ne s'attendait pas a ce que ce soit si mouvemente. Passer 9 heures couche sur un mini matelas sur le planche d'un bateau, entasse comme des sardines avec les autres touristes, on remercie le gars du diveshop qui nous a donne des gravols! L'ile est plus petite que ce a quoi on s'attendait mais plutot charmante puisqu'aucune voiture ou mobilette n'y circule, ou presque. Apres avoir rencontre un gentil Nouveau Zelandais (Nancy : Chris de chez Aquanauts...) qui nous a recommande certains points d'interet sur une carte, nous avons rejoins Rox et Ben que nous avions laisses a Koh Tao. Premier stop, le meilleur resto thai de l'ile, l'Orange place, on a meme fait la queue! ... read more

Hey everybody, Hope you are all good. We took out the speedboat on Ko Samet, as well good fun. Was proper rapid aswell, some matey came with us, don't think they trusted 6 lads with there boat, haha...We stopped and did some snorkeling aswell, which was cool. Saw some good fish and coral, Warany you would of wet yourself...! Weather was pretty good aswell, Adam got a bit sea sick, so we had to stop and let him off on a beach...We got back to the hotel at about 16:00 and chilled out then went out for dinner, we found a really nice little place to eat where everything was cooked on the barbeque. I ate 2 well nice kebabs and some jacket potatoes, yum yum... On Thursday it was time to leave all the boys ... read more

The journey from Siem Reap to Phi Phi was massive. We left early morning and arrived at the Thai border at peak time for the sun, which made the hour border crossing in the beating sun absolutely terrible. 35 degrees, whilst we had to our luggage about and fill out paper work. Horrible. We reached Bangkok at 6.30pm, which meant he was also got to experience rush hour during monsoon rain, not fun. Moved very little for an hour and a half. The train we were hoping to catch was at 7.30pm and we arrived there at 7pm, needless to say it was full, so we got a bus down that night, at the same time. We paid over the odds, the guy got definitely tell we were in a rush and did not want to ... read more