Friday 1st February 2008

We woke up this morning and after our day at the beach yesterday, we quite fancied another day of rest and relaxation. So, after breakfast we walked down to the main road and caught a bus back to Ao Nang. Rather than spend the day there we decided to catch one of the Long-tail Boats over to another beach called Rai Leh. It's part of the mainland but, because of huge mountains, it can only be reached by sea. The Long-tail Boat was great fun - it was basically a rickety old boat but with a propellor attached to the back - it actually went pretty quickly. It was a beautiful day and the sea was lovely and calm, which was good.

It was cool over on Rai Leh. The sand on the beach was quite hard and wasn't particularly comfy to lay on, but... we soldiered on. It was getting really hot as the day went on, so we drank loads of water and sat in the shade - although the sand was much softer out in the open, so we tried to split our time between both (it's a hard life). As Nikki was starting to feel better, she was also starting to get her appetite back and so we treated ourselves to some corn-on-the-cobb which a little old lady was selling on the beach.

When we'd had enough sun for one day we made our way back to Ao Nang in one of the Long-tail Boats. The sea was much choppier than before and it was quite a hairy ride back - which took us quite close to the rocks at times. We decided we'd spend a couple of hours where we were instead of going straight back to Krabi Town and stopped in a bar for some cocktails. When we'd had enough and it was pretty dark, we hailed a bus and came back. The bus driver tried to drop us in a place we totally didn't recognise and when we showed him a little map of where we wanted to go he just stormed out of the bus and left us! He only came back when more passengers arrived. He did drop us where he should have and when we went to pay he made some obscene gesture as he snatched the money from us. He wasn't happy - so we jumped out of the road before he could run us down!

Another day, another beautiful beach in Thailand!