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  Krabi, Thailand
Friday, October 10, 2008

  10th October 8.00am with our bags packed, we head off to get some breakfast for our long trip ahead, I say long, what i mean is we have no idea where we are going or how we will get there, We both have the best breakfasts for a long time, Helen has croissant with scrambled eggs while merlin has fresh mixed fruit with yogurt. After our delicious brekkie,we both notice that the local taxis are nothing more than pick up trucks with seats in the back. It didnt take long before one stopped and picked us up, then we were off too a place where all the local boat ferry's operate from. we booked our boat to a little cove called Railey,only accessible by a 20 min boat ride, where we hopped off on the west side of Railey
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When we jumped out of the boat and into the ice cold water of the sea,...... only joking it was sooooo warm, we then headed off up towards the beach hotels and restaurants. At this point i will be totally honest after all the hype from other travelers, it didn't seem that special, don't get me wrong the views were fantastic but we have much better beaches in west wales. Also, the prices for accommodation were through the roof the cheapest we saw on the west side was 1500 baht (£24) and the most expensive was 5400baht (£82) we knew that the east side of riley would be cheaper so we headed off for a 5min walk where accommodation was a lot cheaper( 400 baht ) but the sea water looked like some thing that would come out of a sewerage pipe, and there was a horrible smell. We were shown a room which was far enough away from the sea that you couldn't smell that stink, which was good news all round, it didn't take us long to get settled in then Merlin had little nap
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Later we walked up a steep muddy hill that was very very steep, and had orange/red soil that stained everything...shoes, clothes, legs, hands etc. we were covered by the time we got to the top. There was an amazing view point where you could overlook the beach on both sides of this place. we then tried to slide our way down the other side of this hill to get to a lagoon. But halfway down it got incredibly steep and dangerous so we decided to head back down the hill. At the bottom of the hill, on the path, we head off in the other direction and stumbled across a load of wild monkeys hovering around for food....... Merlin whimpered quietly....... Then we stumbled across this amazing beautiful beach, that was shut off from the other side. The water was warm, there was an amazing cliff that looked like it was melting and it was just a great beach. Neither of us have any swim clothes or spare clean clothes at this point, so we just paddled our feet for a while and headed off back to our 'swamp'. unfortunately we were so disappointed that we had found this little cove, as we had already booked our tickets to go to another island called " phi phi" which is where the film "The beach" was filmed. Phi phi is pronounced pee pee so you can just imagine how much fun merlin is going to have trying to explain to the locals that he wants to go pee pee. We were gutted to be leaving after we found such a wonderful part of this dream place,but hay hoe another island another beach,


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We just remembered that on our way to Krabi we saw an elephant! yep thats right an elephant , so what ? I hear you say. well ...... it was in the back of a pick up truck going down the motorway, we thought it was so strange and probably a one off, Untill 30mins later we saw asecond elephant in the back of another pickup........ just a little bit strange.........

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