Tuesday, August 11, 2009

A really nice place

Hey guys, Nuri here.

This is going to be short because things have slowed down in a good way -- I was getting a little exhausted from all the action.

We got into Krabi in the mid-afternoon 2 days ago, and took some bus to the place where we took a long-tail boat to Ko Railay. A long-tail boat is the type of thing people get off of to get to the island when a new show of Survivor starts. We had to like wade out to it to get on the boat -- a good sign.

The beach here is freaking amazing -- I'm not one for beautiful beaches, but this is ridiculous. Our first evening we just had dinner and some beer by the beach, the next day was just going through this 15 minute walk to this incredible beach, words won't do it so y'all will have to ask for the pictures eventually, and just sat and read all day. The World According to Garp is really good. Then, for the evening, dinner and sleep.

Today we went on a very vertical hike up to a view-point and a lagoon, and then went back to the pool for a little, and now we're getting ready to take a 40-minute longtail boat to Krabi, from which we will take a longer longtail boat ride to Ko Phi Phi. While we're there, we'll probably do some hiking and some snorkelling -- snorkelling is the last thing I really wanted to do here and haven't yet.

Oh, also yesterday by the beautiful beach we saw some monkeys hanging out and taking food offered them by tourists. They're just like little people!

That's really about it. More from Ko Phi Phi.