Siboya Island

Trip Start Jul 26, 2007

Trip End Sep 27, 2007

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Flag of Thailand Krabi, Thailand
Sunday, September 21, 2008

The resort and its boss

To this place Siboya, I have been planning to go for a long time before we left for our China Journey and although it wasn't like what I imagined in many respects it was even better.

Sun over the sea

Tide out

The island of Siboya is 2 or 3 kilometers off the coast of Krabi and it is about 16 kilometers long and 3 wide. In my innocence I thought that to get to the island we would just have to go down to the beach and get a boat going out in that direction. It wasn't quite as simple as that. First we had to take a taxi to 'the pier', which it seems was almost an hours journey from Krabi airport.

On the beach at tide out

There we found ourselves in a small Muslim fisherman's village, there we had to wait a half an hour until the guy who promised to ferry us out there had loaded up his small and dilapidated boat with bags of rice and mopeds. The boat journey took about 10 minutes, we arrived at the island's pier which is situated between 2 huts and thats all. Although I'd phoned our our host earlier to have a vehicle waiting for us all we could see on arrival was a cranky old motorbike with a sidecar and that was to be our transport!

The beach

We got into the sidecar and were driven on dusty paths across the breadth of the island through jungle and coconut groves that had bean deserted and the jungle reclaimed them.

One of the gardeners

The island seemed almost empty of residents an observation which was incorrect. Here and there the island sported a few small clumps of huts and buildings which you could hardly call villages.

The beach 2

Looking out to sea

The site we had set our sites on was a collection of bungalows some of them belonging to the owner of the holiday resort and the rest built and owned by absentee owners who come there to holiday in there own time.

Our bungalow

The resort was started by its owner some 14 years earlier who'd bought the land from its previous owners, On this land they grew coconuts and rice (there is no money at all to be made from coconuts here) now the grounds were landscaped lawns with coconut trees and a small stream flowing through, all very picturesque. We were the only residents in the resort and it seemed as if we had the island to ourselves only. Personally I could have stayed there for a long time but my spouse has this almost phobia thing about snakes and the island was really snake ridden,

Python on the beach

there were all types like pythons, cobras and at least two types of poisoness green snakes and 'Gawd' only knows what else, so we left after only 3 days.
As it is I managed to take pictures of the astounding sunsets the tides going in and out, and of the island from all sorts of angles. The name of the island Siboya Island I was told it meant Crocodile Island but there haven't been any croc sightings for years.
We left with mixed feelings, I for one felt very much at home there but...
After Siboya there wasn't much left to do in Bangkok but bide away our time before flying back home