A Journey to Well Known Places

We did go to Ko Phi Phi after all and it was amazing. Just knock your socks off beautiful. It was expensive and VERY touristy. Every available inch of the low lands has been built upon, but if you look in the other direction towards the water you will be impressed. We stayed for three days. Most of our time was spent on the beach, although we did take a snorkelling trip. The snorkelling was good and the views from the boat were great. I got sunburned pretty bad and wore a tee shirt the rest of the time on the island. We met some nice Swedes that gave us a mask and snorkel so we wouldn’t have to rent one the rest of the trip. From there we went to Krabi for a third and final time. The very next morning we awoke before dawn and took a minibus to a little port town and got another boat to a national park island called Tarotau. While not quite as beautiful as Ko Phi Phi it was very charming and relaxing for what it did not have. Since it is a national park all the accomodation and food is run by the Thai park service. They have very limited housing and we were lucky to get a room with no advance booking. Apart from the park workers there were only about 40 other tourists on a 30 kilometer long island. It was great. Many times we were literally the only people on the beach. The bungalows had electricity from 6pm to 10pm. At 10 they shut off the generator and the whole island went dark. The night sky was so pretty. One night there was a thunder storm on the ocean miles away. We sat on the beach and watched the stars. When the lightening flashed it lit up the whole beach. Definitely a memorable experience. The island is also home to several troops of macaque monkeys that have developed a taste for the little crabs that run around all over the beach. I walked to close and too fast to some and they ran into a tree. When I got closer the big male shoot the tree branch at me and hollered. It was kinda fun to tease the monkeys. We spent three relaxing days on Tarotau getting a minibus to Georgetown in Malaysia. The friendly Thais have a billboard on the otherside of customs that says “Wish you had a good time.” We did.

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