Krabi!!!

One of the things I wanted to do this time visiting Thailand that I didn't get the chance to the last time I visited was to go to the beach and swim in the ocean. So Kenny, his friend Craig, and I planned a trip. I got a Friday off of work and we bought plane tickets for Thursday afternoon so we could spend the weekend in Krabi.

The first thing we did when we arrived was to search for a place to stay. There were a few really nice hotels but we decided that we wanted to save money. So we walked down a couple Alleys and searched for a smaller place. We ended up staying in a place called Sea World for only 500 bot a night which is about 16-17 dollars. It wasn't the most glamorise place but it was just right for us. It had beds, air conditioning, a shower that worked most of the time, and a TV. This was perfect for us because we weren't planning on being in the room but to sleep. After finding a place to stay we walked around and searched for a place to eat and just enjoyed finally arriving and being here and looking around.

The next day I was finally able to see Krabi's landscape. It was beautiful. Besides the ocean and weather being great, Krabi has a kind of hilly terrain. It's hard to describe so hopefully the pictures I've posted will give you an idea, but it was really hilly and you wold have these huge chunks of rock that would be shooting up out of the water or giant cliffs isolating certain locations from the rest of the beach. Which is why most everyone travels from beach to beach on a long boat.

We decided that we were going to go to this beach that Kenny and Craig had been to before and said was awesome. So we bought tickets for a long boat and travelled along the coast line until we reached this beach. We got off and then did a little hike were we passed some of these great caves and reached the beach that we had planned. It was really cool because hardly anyone was there. There were maybe 20 people on this entire section of the beach. We played around in the water for a little bit, jumped off some rocks into the water, threw the frisbee around, and tried to build a sandcastle that would hold off the tide. After all that we decided that we were going to snorkel out to this little, but very tall, island to see if we could find any cool coral and fish. Which we did. That night we bought a old school 007 movie and watched it.

The next day we took a long boat out to a different beach were we were able to rent two 2-man kayaks for 100 bot each which is like $3 dollars. We decided that we were going to Kayaked out to this island called Chicken Island. They call it chicken island because one of the rocks looks like a chicken head. We knew that the island was a good distance away but we didn't realize how far it actually was. What looked like a mile maybe 1 1/2 miles turned out to be what seemed like a long voyage across the see. I think it took us a couple of hours and was a lot further than we thought. We made a short stop at this little rock/island along our way which was really neat because the water would come splashing hard on it or would come jetting out of a little cave.

We stayed at the rock a lot less than we would have all liked too because we were worried that we wouldn't have enough time at chicken beach to do anything other than turn around and kayak back. So we continued until we finally reached land. Chicken beach had even less amount of people on it than the beach we stayed at before. In fact for most of our trip we were the only ones on the beach.

After our long kayak journey all we could think about was food. We were pretty hungry. There was this little restaurant on the island that we ate at and then made some PP J's that we brought. Each of us also found some coconuts that we spend the rest of the afternoon piling and cracking open. It took a real long time but the milk inside was heavenly. So we decided to take a few casual pictures of us drinking our coconut milk. We went snorkeling again were swam upon some manta rays. Definitely the the coolest ocean creature we came upon while snorkeling.

It was getting too late for us to kayak back to the beach we came from so we paid a longboat guy a little extra to wait for us and to load our kayaks into his boat and bring us back to the beach we came from.

The next day was Sunday so we just relaxed and taught Craig one of the missionary lessons. (We told him if we were going to stay in Krabi until Sunday he would have to listen to one of our lessons as kind of a church substitute.)

All in all a great trip and definitely something I am glad I experienced on this trip to Thailand.

You can check some more pictures out at: http://uvsc.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2011165&l=57209&id=203001753