Life Is Short And The World Is Wide

Krabi turned out to be an unexpected place for us as we were using it as a jump off point to Phuket and only planning on staying a few nights but ended up staying almost a week, but this was partly due to us organising our time around my mate Steve who was due to meet us in Phuket.

We turned up in Rai Leh beach in Krabi where a longtail boat dropped us off. We were told by the bus company that took us into Krabi town that we could get to Hat Ton Sai beach by a short walk from the drop off point. This turned out to be just one of the many lies weve been told by people, especially travel agents, to get our business. It turned out that we couldve walked round a cove in the sea which shouldve only come to our ankles but of course when we got there, the tide was high so we ended up trekking up one of the steepest hills weve seen followed by a 2 mile trek through the jungle then we had to climb down the hill the other side. Needless to say that we were relieved when we arrived to find a cool, hippy backpackers beach with chilled out bars and Bob Marley blasting out of most of the speakers.

This area of Krabi is also known for rock climbing which I had a crack at whilst Servane sunned herslef up on the beach. Although i really enjoyed doing it and i felt that i achieved something, rock climbing gave me an appreciation of two things, heights and terra firma, having opted to stay on the latter for the foreseeable future.