22nd of December 2005

After a 15 hours journey by bus and 3 hours waiting at nowhere we finally arrived in Railay Beach, Krabi. Blue sky, sunshine, sandbeach and clear blue water!!!! Let me give you one advice, instead of trying to save a couple hundred bahts go to an official agency i.e. TAT (i think it stands for tourist authority of thailand). We booked our trip through TIC (tourist information center), and paid 650B instead of 900B at TAT. Supposedly we booked our seat in a VIP bus, but hell it was not even close to a VIP bus. The seats were not meant for sleeping but rather regular seat which you can lean backwards. At the TIC we got told that we would stop only once for a break, which turned out to be true but obviously they had forgotten to tell us the little fact about having to get out somewhere in Surat Thani at 6am, and to wait for 3 hours for our bus to Krabi.
Being sleepless made us a bit foolish so we made the best out of the situation and were joking and chatting with those english lads! Who were trying to convince us to go to Koh Phangan...At 9am we were picked up by a bus heading to Krabi!!! Luckily:-)

During our stop in nowhere we arranged our first 2 nights in Krabi, at Yaya Resort paying 500B a night with fan and bathroom! Unfortunately it is not right at the beach, but still it is nice and the service people are really nice and friendly. Today is already our second day, since it is cloudy it is probably not a bad idea to discover this little peninsula. It seems as if it has been established only because of or for tourists! Like us! Seing thais, mostly mostlem (95 % of the habitants are apparently moslems and the rest chinese buddists who run a business).

Railay and Tonsai beach offer a variety of outdoor activities: climbing, diving, snorkeling, hiking, kayaking, good swimming and just relaxing;-) On our second night we met some Germans and Norwegians guys on a party at Cliff bar with dj ? and live music, the band is called job2do. Good fun, good music and jammy food! With Joerg I decided to meet up in the morning to do the hike, or rather climb to the view point on Railay east and to the lagoon! This was quite an adventure as the hill was very steep and slippery (pictures will follow) The view point although only one of the lower ones, was a reward for us: Beautiful!!! The lagoon ,however, was rather disappointing as it was muddy with lots of moskitos flying around. So if possible try to see at high tide!!!