Koh Phi Phi

We arrived in phi phi early after a 6am departure from Phuket. On arrival we got bombarded with people trying to sell us everything. We were outside a dive shop and a guy gave us a good map and told us where to stay! We found a room for 600b (the priciest yet - almost £11 a night!). It had all the mod cons though, including a bed and a cold shower! Not great but it's fine as we only slept there! Phi phi is a lush island though and worth the extra dollar.

The main beaches are separated by the town which sits in between either. A lot of the town was rebuild after the tsunami which pretty much flattened the town (we saw a photo here!). On the way to our bungalow there is a bit of land on the hill which is where the wave hit and it's a mess. The wave was 5 metres so it's pretty amazing anyone survived.

The beach we went to has white sand and is surrounded by hills and cliffs. More importantly though the beach has no sunbeds, it makes such a difference! Just as we sat down on the beach who did we bump into but Chris and Emma. Unfortunately they were just leaving, so it was pretty weird to bump into them again!

That evening we headed out to sample the nightlife. We had the worst mojito ever whilst waiting to get free buckets with the flyers we had been given! They had put Creme de Menth in it which is like drinking toothpaste! We headed down to the beach and sure enough got our free buckets. We went back there later and got even more free buckets!! We weren't quite sure how they make any money but it was busy!! We then went to slinky bar which had all the fire shenanigans again. We did actually decide to participate in one of them which was jumping through a fire hoop. Don't worry folks if 'evilcanevil' can do it on a motorbike...how did he die again? Anyway we made it and have a few pictures on blog AND a video of us each!

We went down the beach the next day for a err beach day! The weather was smokin' which helped us sweat out the previous nights alcohol. The sea was unbelievably hot, like bath water hot and that's no exaggeration! We only started to cool down when we swam far out. Weird. We forgot about the viewpoint and hurried ourselves up the hill to try and make the sunset. The view was amazing, but a little dark for photos (although there are a couple).

In the evening we went to an all you can eat BBQ. How good does that sound?! As much BBQ meat, chips, baked potato's, sweetcorn, salad, potato salad, pasta as you can eat! We managed 2 platefuls ad it was soooo good! It was out of our normal price bracket (budget) but glad we indulged. It made us realise you really could eat and drink like a king on a 2 week holiday here!!

I got up the next morning and decided to try and run to the viewpoint. I stopped running after about 2 minutes of running up steep steps! I carried on though on got some good snaps. We had our 3rd in a row 'American' breakfast, which seemed more 'English' to me, as it was so good. Baked beans, the lot! We've eaten lots of the local food for dinner (most nights) but we will never be able do it for breakfast (soup, noodles or rice...I'll stick to toast thanks!!)

We got picked up to go on our snorkeling tour which included stopping at 'maya' bay which was 'the beach' (film) beach. We stopped at bamboo island which was a paradise island! Very nice. Unknown to us, 2 guys from our boat left on a different boat so when our captain did a count he was 2 short. We waited and circled the island for over an hour which meant we missed out on 3 stops. The captain decided to ring somebody after this time and found out straight away that the guys were on another boat. Everyone in the boat was like he could've done that ages ago!! We did a bit more snorkeling which was good and funny (fish darting towards us as if to attack us and then change direction at last minute!). We got to Maya by for sunset and it was really nice. It seemed bigger than on the film but it looked really good, although the sun didn't set on it.

In the evening we did the ultra budget traveller and bought a bucket from a stall and drank it outside a shop where we were getting free wifi (using the iPhone). Speaking of the phone it's been pretty useful, a lot of places in Asia have free wifi which saves some money. Even Emma's finally impressed! We've seen a lot a travellers with laptops which is a bit excessive we think! We've also got a currency conversion app which means we never have to work out how many millions something is off the top of our heads!

Time to leave Phi Phi for Koh Lanta. It's an amazing island we could've stayed longer. All the surrounding islands were also amazing

Videos!

Kris



Emma (Emmas daredevil gymnastics!)



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