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Published: April 25th 2007
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Right off to Phi Phi today, in search of Leo and friends. We got the boat around 10 ish and arrived on the Island about 11.30, so not too bad when the boat chugs into Phi Phi you begin to see what all the hype is about it looks beautiful. If you can see past the expensive yachts etc docked right along the main pier beach, all in all this is a great first impression of the island after walking with our bags in the blazing sun for what seemed like an eternity, we found a cheap guest house a few hundred yards back from the other beach, if you can imagine the main island where everyone stays has almost like a chunk missing from it in the middle, and this part is really thin, you can walk from one beach to the other in a matter of minutes should you want to.
After checking our things in, grabbing our goggles and bat n ball, we were heading for the beach expecting maybe the beach which is shot in the film or an equivalent. So you will understand how disappointed we were to find the tide goes right out here
Greedy
This looks like he's poking his tongue out but i think it's watermellon and there is no water deep enough to swim in any time after about 4, (oh its not the one from the film either we found out that is in fact is on a neighboring island) so with our heads hung low we headed home debating weather that is the only beach and know one swims here, (this was before knowing the tide had just gone out)
We hit the town that night wanting some answers from other travelers. And ended up in a bar called the reggae bar, which once again playing nothing in the way of reggae, but they did however have an in bar Thai boxing ring. And not just for the Thai people oh no this was for all to try, and the prize? A free bucket of alcohol for anyone taking part. What a deal you go in the ring pissed up and get knocked about by some other drunk for 5 minutes, which ends up sobering you up then when you’re done you’re greeted with another bucket which gets you more drunk than before, and all you really want to do now is get back in that ring. Me and Gary gave the whole
boxing thing a miss and took great pleasure watching drunk after drunk fall over up there. There are a few other good bars on the island the Irish bar was pretty good showing football and random films late afternoon which is good as if your not drinking here there isn’t a great deal to do
I had one more night on the town here then spent a few suffering in the room with a painful rather annoying blood shot eye which I’m beginning to think is an infection as it still hasn’t gone. A couple of days before leaving we booked the trip around the islands and finally got to see THE BEACH no Leo though or copious amounts of ganja come to think of it, but we did however get to visit monkey island which was funny but we were told to hold tight to our belongings as the monkey have been know to steal from tourists. From there we went to a lagoon for some swimming 15minutes as the guide would shout before relaxing with a fag. Then onto a snorkeling point 35 minutes snorkeling kap (thanks in Thai) the snorkeling was really good we saw parrot
fish which have become my favourite, lobster, eels, clowns fish (Nemo) and plenty we don’t know the names of Gary took to throwing food next to me so they would surround me without me knowing which was nice of him. After there it was off to THE BEACH chugging in on the long tail boat we were surprised and didn’t think it was the one to begin with it looked totally different obviously the Tsunami has hit since which played a big part, but just not what I expected don’t get me wrong I’m not complaining. It’s still brilliant. After here we headed for Bamboo Island had a splash about then off to more snorkeling this time at shark point… what? Its ok he says there are no sharks this time of the day ok we trust you luckily there were not and we were not……eaten that is
A couple more days spent here then we head to Krabi and from there into Malaysia
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comment on pic titled "breathe in hecky" forget breathing in mate, get some fucking sun on your pegs!!!! haha