Blogs from Krabi, South-West Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 9

Day 1 Arriving at Krabi airport, all the bags were offloaded into the entrance of the building, not on the carousel. Once we figured that out, we went in search of transportation to our hotel. The taxi cartel at the airport is in full swing here, so paying a premium we found a driver who would take us. Unfortunately he didn't know where the hotel was. Dean was all for going back to the airport but luckily the driver eventually engaged his brain and asked some tuk tuk drivers on the side of the road. Eventually we arrived at our destination, which was covered in bamboo scaffolding. Upon closer inspection, yes, it was still open for business. The lady at reception was very nice and switched rooms for us when she realised it would be too ... read more

I had a short tour of The Emerald Pool located at Klong Thom district. This pool is named by it's own condition, huge pool with green crystal clear fresh water looking like emerald. This pool covers 100 square meters which you can see clear trough the bottom of the pool. The Emerald pool originates from a warm stream in the middle of Khao Nor Juji forest. The hot spring waterfall, also located at Klong Thom district near to the Emerald is about 50-60 degrees celcius and also originates from the middle of Khao Nor Juji forest. A long running hot water channel drops down a few meters to another cool pool at the bottom. People believe this small pool can cure many diseases? It was a nice few hours. I've made a call to book in ... read more

Our travel marathon began on Sunday morning at 9:30 and ended on Tuesday evening. There were two boats, several tuk tuk's (kind of like trucks with seats in the back), and a number of busses. We began on the island of Koh Yao Noi, and took the 9:30 ferry to Krabi. We enjoyed our last bit of time in the bay of Phang Nga, the limestone kursts, and the playful kids on the ferry. From Krabi province, we took a tuk tuk to Krabi town, found an airconditioned cafe and killed a bit of time before our bus left at 3:30. Our bus turned out to be a van which travelled around Krabi picking up travellers to catch the bus to Bangkok which departed several hours from Krabi. Around 7:30 that evening, we hopped on our ... read more

Rain, rain and more rain... It had truly set in and we were soaked at least once a day. Krabi is a fairly standard Thai town. It was good for us to catch up on all our boring stuff like getting photos printed and clothes washed but we were keen to move on fairly quickly. We did visit a nearby temole that was surrounded by hundreds of monkeys. You could buy peanuts to feed them so of course we did and they climbed all over me to get to them! After monkeying around for a bit we decided to attempt the 1,237 stair climb to a small temple at the top of the mountain. It was hard work the stairs were so steep, practically vertical and very uneven but we made it up in good time ... read more

Back in Thailand, the land of spicy food, beautiful beaches, girly girls, girly boys, old purvey men, hard beds, elephants, massaRRRRGes, and SWENSONS….we love it. But be warned - never trust a fart in Thailand! KRABI We arrived into Krabi airport and feeling very pleased with ourselves speeding through airport formalities in a record time of 4 minutes, we are confronted by Thai girls sitting in caged booths, with their hands poking through the metal grills waving furiously at us and yelling out in the hope we will select their transport options. Anyone would think it was a matter of life or death! We bypass the taxi at NZ$25 and race for the shuttle at half the price (300 baht) NZ$12. The shuttle, in the form of an old cranky bus, waited until every possible passenger ... read more