Aquamarine Hotel

Today we slept in to 8am. First decent sleep in Thailand. The place we are staying has quite air con and  a softer bed and its quite thankfully. The rest of the day was spent going at about the same pace. We pretty much went for a drive (on the scooter we have hired), watched a movie in our room (cause it was so hot outside) and went for a swim or two in the pool. Now its about dinner time and I am still quite full from eating the mini bar peanuts :(.

The destination of our random scooter drive

Our room. Camera lens fogs up whenever we step outside our cool room and so does our sun glasses lol

We have booked  a morning fishing trip tomorrow so I am hoping that will be interesting.

Tiger Spoony Spoony

More Tiger spoony from back in Chiang Mai. It was pretty hot and the Tigers where more concerned with having a sleep than doing anything interesting. Lucky for us they also seem to be very well feed!

Krabi

Caught the ferry back to Krabi this morning and it couldn't have come soon enough. Phi Phi was nice but the loud duff duff of every bar and restaurant made sleeping a somewhat difficult task. 

Sunset off Phi Phi island

We are staying at quite a modest place in Krabi and I really like it. The bed is the softest we have had so far and its quiet and relaxing, and great staff (so nice).

Alice eating Pineapple near Krabi 

AND! look what we got in our freebies at this hotel........A Laaaaasor!.....

Phi Phi Island

The View from our room

Arrived at Krabi airport two days ago and took the ferry to Phi Phi island. Unfortunately for us we are staying reasonably close to where all the partying happens so the paradise is kinda ruined by the duff duff at night. But there is no denying its a pretty nice spot.

We took a snorkeling trip yesterday which was a pretty long day. The only way to see the island is by boat... i just wish we had a faster one as most of the day was spent chugging to the various beach destinations.

The last beach stop was at the place where "The Beach" was filmed. A pretty idyllic spot, but overrun with tourists. It was fairly interesting getting to this beach as you had to swim from the boat and then navigate some rocks and a rope course to get to the stairs that take you to the path that leads there... I scratched my knee :(

We headed back to the boat a bit earlier than everyone else which was a blessing as there was a major traffic jam when everyone tried to come back. So we got to sit on the boat and watch the carnage unfold.

Tomorrow we take the ferry back to Krabi for the final leg of our trip before we fly to KL for a stopover and then the mammoth flight home (im not looking forward to it).

Ayutthuya day trip (from Bangkok)

We spent two nights in Bangkok. From there we took a mini bus tour to look at Thailand's old capital. It is cool...but so very hot.




Bangkok was a massive city that seemed to come to a crawl from 4-8pm with commuter traffic. Bangkok wasn't really for us, but worth a look for a short time. 

Fourth Day Of Chiang Mai

Not alot to report for todays activities. We decided on the remaining legs of our journey being Bangkok for a couple of days and then on to the Krabi area for some serious beach time.

We also did a bit of shopping (Alice brought 4 pairs of shoes.....sigh ), took a number of Tok Toks. We also met our first unhelpful Thai person, a Tok Tok driver, old, drove slow.... and over charged us even though he didnt have a clue where he was going (by about $3-$4 NZD so no biggy). The Video below was of a much better driver, he was nice.

Just had a Pizza from Mario's for dinner and it was pretty damn good. Alice paid for it in blood as she made a large offering to the Mosquito gods (that will teach here for leaving the hotel without repellent!)

So after this we are off to the night market again to do some last minute shopping before we fly out to Bangkok tomorrow morning.

Tiger, elephant, monkey, gun mania

First stop on the taxi tour was the elephants, we tried to tell the nice taxi man we wanted to go to a sanctuary that doesn't exploit the elephants, but he had no idea what the word exploit meant, so we had to go with the flow. The elephants didn't seem to be being treated badly but it was a bit weird watching do un-elephant type things, like kicking soccer balls at goals and painting.

Then we went to see the monkeys, that was just a bit sad, lots were chained up :-(

But the tigers! The tigers were awesome...and sleepy...cos it was insanely hot. When we got our tiger photos taken the trainer told us to give the tiger spoony spoony....but nick wasn't allowed to give them any upside down treatment...

GUNS! Nick went gangster styles with a .45 caliber pistol. I just about fell over when he fired it. real gangsters must have really bad hearing!

After all that you'd think we'd have had enough for one day but we decided to go to a Muay Thai match. The kids were awesome (not that i condone that). The main event was laaaaame. They had a really tough looking spanish guy against a thai guy who was.....less than fit (chuuubby). Chubs tripped over his own foot in the second round and hurt his knee...night over.