Krabi, Phi Phi and the end of Thailand

Hey Guys and Girls, sorry its taken so long to get anything up on our blog we've basically been having waytoo much time. Really far behind but here is the next installment of our adventure.

After the festivities of Koh Phangan we made our way to Krabi, after another ridiculous boat trip followed by another mental bus journey in which a girl being ill rescued my bladder from exploding much to our companions dissappointment, we made it to Krabi bus stop!? Well the middle of nowhere basically. It didn't take long before we were approach by a thai guy offering us accomodation right by the beach, it was late and it was cheap so lets go for it! We were joined by Debs, Kate and Chris from Koh Phangan and we were all whisked off in a jeep to the 'resort'. After a mental Canadians recommendations we thought it'd be alright, however, the frogs, ants and massive spiders had a different idea! The huts were set back in the rainforest and were over run with wildlife, not to worry though, me and Adrian could cower in our double bed! - awesome! Still it was the standard sort of maddness that goes with this trip so we decided to embrace it!

The next day we went on a day tour by longtail boat to some of the uninhabitated islands of Krabi. , The Hong Islands. We went snorkelling and I swam to a deserted island before moving on to the Hong Lagoon and flinging ourselves off the boat, having an awesome time. The we went to the main beach were there were a fair few longtails and tourist swiming in what can only be decribed as paradise! More snorkelling, jumping off rocks and treking in the tsunami devasted areas of the island. It was a fantasitic trip and the beaches were unbelievable. We returned late in the afternoon in time to catch the sunset go crabbing on the beach and have a few drinks to celebrate the days success.

We enjoyed the trip that day so much that we booked another day trip the next day to Chicken Island and Koh Poda. Yet again we boarded the longtail and headed out in the waters of Krabi. Chicken Island named for its chicken like headland was joined to 2 smaller islands via a narrow sand bank - awesome! This place was paradise! After soaking up the rays and swimming in the crystal clear, turquoise waters we went to Koh Poda, or Monkey Island as our crazy pink hatted boat driver called it. It didn't take long before we found out why! Monkeys on the beach stealling people water and eating bananas! We took some photos and unfortunately for me one of these monkeys was that keen on fame and chased me!! In the panic I ran straight into a tree! - perfect. Not good, monkey desease! (Sorry mum, kept this from you until everything was alright), the monkey had scratched my foot and so I was super paranoid about rabies! Went to the cafe and got blue napham to disinfect my wounds! Then upon our return to Krabi I went to the 'Hospital'. Bit of a joke and didn't open till 7pm!! So we went for a walk about in a market etc and everyone mocked me for my monkey business. Thanks to Debs for looking after me I eventaully got seen by the doc who said scratches were fine and that I had nothing to worry about but gave me a picnic of drugs to take anyway! - I didn't take these unlabelled plastic bag full of multi coloured pills!! Instead we went out on the town for a few bevvies and then had a beach side drink with our fellow travellers to celebrate valentines day being over!

Next day we checked out after having to find a cash machine and caught a boat to Koh Phi Phi. Everyone had been raving about this place and so we were very excited! We checked into the cheapest accomodation available, which was unbelievably nice apart from the strange viewing window in the shower! Anyway we only had a day and 1 night to do Phi Phi so me and Adrain set off exploring the cobbled streets, admiring the local art work and basically being dissapointed with the beaches after being in paradise for 2 days! There was still plenty to look at however and we were looking forward to sampling the night life which was meant to be epic! We squeezed in the time to trek up the mountain to see the view of the Phi Phi beaches. Would have taken less time if we'd have not gone through the jungle but once again in true Ransday fashion we like to do things the 'interesting' way! Anyway the view was stunning and the nice path down the mountain made getting back much easier!

That evening we treated ourselves to a gourmet dinner before meeting up with Debs and the gang as well as the 3 Brummy Ladies from our jungle trek in Chiang Mai - mental, such a small world! We all went out for a big night! We spent most of it in a wicked bar with a live band who were hammering out the Led Zep and playing the guitar with a pint glass and generally being amazing! Had and absolutely awesome night, with free buckets through in for good measure! It was a messy one and we were all reunited way into the early hours, checked out, went for breakfast, used the net and then had to board the boat to Phuket so that catching our flight would be easy the next day.

Once we arrived at the dock we went through the usual bus catching debarcle but eventaully made it to a hotel which seemed to be way to classy for us but the price was right and we checked into a luxury room with loads of room and even a bath. Before long the toatally gay bell boy fancied Adrian and we had dinner and the taxi to the airpot tomorrow sorted!

We arrived at the airport with plenty of time, had a BK and removed 10kg of clothes from our bags because of the joke baggage allowance, boarded the plane and were off. I never got my chicken fuccacia but instead some nasty nasty hot dog whioch did not go down well at all!!