Koh Phi Phi- Paradise, if you know where to look
Monday, October 6th, 2008So our change of plans lead us to Koh Phi Phi and my first impressions were… not great. It’s a bit like falaraki in the center of the village. ‘Geezers’ in England shirts drinking cheap buckets with girls dolled up to the nines dancing around handbags. Lauren was shocked at how much it had changed from the quaint, picturesque island she had know in 2006, a few months post tsunami.
After 2 nights of staying in the godawful R.S. guesthouse in the center viliage, we have moved out a little bit. Gone are the lager louts, the thumping basslines, the aggro, instead there is blissful calm and smiling locals.
Phi phi is only little though, so it takes us all of 10 minutes to walk into the town where the bars are, but we are far enough away that we get a choice.
Anyway.
Today we rented a kyak from the beach and made our way off of the mainland around the coast of the island to a little place called ‘monkey island,’ it was all kinds of awesome. By chance we timed it just right that a boatload of 30 or so people were leaving just as we were arriving and so for our entire stay on the little cove there was only 5 or so other couples populating the tiny beach. On the island itself monkeys are abound. You can hold out bananas for them to feed from you hand and another tourist brought with him some monkey nuts and this went down very well indeed with the simian population. It really was a relaxing and cool way to get close to the cute little furry animals.
That’s all for now, with internet being 4 times the price as in Bangkok I don’t wanna run up a bill higher than our accommodation.
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