Blogs from Ko Phi Phi Don, South-West Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 9

Phi Phi Island Today is the 25th June and it signifies that I am half way through this current journey to Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. There has been no rain here since I arrived on the 18th June with the local workers spending a lot of time watering gardens and shrubbery. The trip to Phi Phi Island started with a pick up by minivan at the resort by 7.45am. The harbour is on the other side of the island approximately 50 minutes away if there is not too much traffic. The company that does the trips to Phi Phi is extremely busy and this is not the season for tourists yet. They seem to have at least ten speed boats of the size that we left the harbour in, operating today. The trip out to the ... read more

The next day Amber mentioned she had a couple days off before she had to catch an overnight bus back up to Bangkok. Niki and I had initially planned to stay in Phuket for just one night but since Niki rarely gets to see Amber I opted to head back to Phi Phi and make sure our room there was paid for and give Niki and Amber a day together to party and catch up. We grabbed some breakfast and I hopped on a motorcyle taxi to take me back to the harbor on the other side of the island. If you ever get a chance to take a motorcycle taxi in Thailand I highly recommend it, it was possibly one of the funnest 20 minute cab rides I ever took as he sped through the ... read more

After a very relaxing sleep (in which we werent swept out to sea) we met up with Ricky and his two new friends Samantha and Scarlet for breakfast and some time on the beach (somthing we were all slightly hesitant to do). We had discussed getting a longtail boat to take us to various snorkel sites around the island but after the previous day, we all decided it was just a little too soon and settled on sitting in the water and drinking a few beers. Niki busted out a hoop session for us, drawing a round of applause from all in view on the beach. After a litte more sunshine we walked up into the streets and hit one of the better restaurants on the island called Cosmic for some pizzas and a few more ... read more

We had high hopes for Phi Phi, probably because of it being one of the islands that's most talked about, really that should have been a warning! It only takes an hour and a half from Lanta so we arrived early and traipsed around looking for somewhere that looked quiet enough to get some kip, tons of bars here and most accommodation above them! We eventually found a place a bit off the main drag (Harmony guest house) which was pretty small and cell like but it was 8 quid so we took it. We were staying in the main part of the island (Ton Sai) which really was more like Magaluf than a Thai Paradise! The place was full of teenagers, and resembled a rubbish tip, seriously it was disgusting, piles of trash, and the ... read more

The next morning Niki got up fairly early and headed off for her dive. We already knew that Matt's Joint would have a room available for us today so it was left to me to check us out, move all of our stuff and check us in at Matt's. It didn't take me all that long to sort it all out and in no time flat I was enjoying a couple of Singha's and watching some re-runs of Friends in the restaurant at Matt's Joint while they got our room ready for us. Our room at Matt's was pretty nice (and again coincidentally was also the room Niki had stayed in before), for 1000 baht a night we got a tv, bar fridge, balcony overlooking the street, air con and a nice bathroom with a decent ... read more