Sunday 3rd February 2008

We got up nice and early this morning because, after our Tiger Cave excursion yesterday, we'd booked a tour which would take us to four of the islands down here in the South of Thailand. The bus picked us up at 8.30am and drove us over to Ao Nang beach where we caught our Long-tail Boat.

The first island we went to was called Tup Island, which was surrounded by beautiful clear water and amazing white sand. We were told we had about an hour-and-a-half on this island and were able to go snorkeling in the lovely warm water. The fish were brilliant and weren't at all scared of us. Some of them even attacked me - trying to eat the moles on my stomach! When our time was up we went back to the boat and made our way round to a nearby island, called Chicken Island (it's called that because one of the giant rocks looks like the head of a chicken). Some of the people on our boat did more snorkeling here, but I didn't bother because i'd cut my foot open on the coral at the last place.

This afternoon we went to the best island of the lot - one called Poda Island. In the spot where our boat landed there were quite a few people so, instead of eating our lunch there, me and Nikki took a walk along the gorgeous beach and found a secluded spot of our own. It was great to relax in the warm water and we didn't want to go back to the boat. On our way back to Ao Nang, we stopped on our final beach and visited the Phra Nang Princess Cave, which is a decorative spirit house (?). Me and Nikki had fun - we just climbed over all the rocks and up into the caves. Before it was time to go, Nikki had a paddle in the sea and then we got back on the boat.

After cleaning ourselves up, we went out for a lovely meal tonight... well, mine was nice - Nikki's was the oddest thing we have ever seen. She ordered a pork with pepper & garlic dish and when it came out it contained about 14 cloves of garlic... skins and all! I'd almost finished eating my Thai green curry before she'd finished picking all the skins out. When we got back to P. Guest House, our host helped us arrange some accommodation on the island of Koh Lanta for tomorrow - we've decided it's time to move on from Krabi Town, although we've had a great time here!

We've had a brilliant time in Krabi - I think we're going to enjoy Thailand!