Monday, September 12, 2011

Crabby About Leaving Krabi

In 22 minutes we'll be boarding a wooden motor boat from the mangrove cladden eastern side of Railay Beach, headed toward Krabi town -- part one of three in our journey to Chiang Mai (northern Thailand's biggest city), where we should arrive via airplane from Phuket around 10 PM tonight.

We are pretty sad to be leaving this laid back beach town with the most beautiful views of limestone karsts and caves framing the open sea. It's been a wonderland and a dream come true...playing in the refreshing ocean water, snorkeling with tons of tropical fish during a day trip to Maya Bay in Ko Phi Phi Leh (where the movie The Beach was filmed in 2000 - we loved hearing the Thai guides say "Leonardo" hahaha), cave climbing and treking, as we watched real mountain climbers do their thing and one VERY intense vertical hike up and down a jungle limestone karst to a lagoon and popular viewpoint. Sal is the ONLY person during our time here that we have heard made it all the way to the lagoon. I'm pretty proud of my jungle man!! :) I think I would've made it too if it hadn't been raining so hard...maybe next time!

That's it for now! Wish us luck on our journey up north =)



  

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