We hung around for an extra night to see some above water parts of the island. We took a boat to postcard perfect NangYaun, 3 islands joined by sand. It is friggin choice.
Always the lightning storms at night, but never any rain. Ideeeal
Beach front bars
Like fire pois are so like totally rad, and I wish I could do it and stuff. Takes awesome photos though!
Below - Cock Rock
So I did 5 dives, 18m deep at the deepest, and i friggin loved it, gotta do some more. Felt really natural under the water after a while. Cool dive crew, we hung out with them for the whole week. A swiss, 3 germans and an american. Oh and Dan our legend dutch instructor.
We left Railay and Krabi and some interesting characters behind (including a german guy called benjamin who kayaks around in an inflatable kayak at night) and bused across to the south china sea side of Thailand, with the gulf famous for Koh Samui, Diving, and full moon party debauchery.
We ferried to Koh Pangyan, and had pre booked a place on bottle beach - an isolated and incredibly relaxing and beautiful beach. We were picked up from the jetty by there truck in the dark, and taken over to a small fishing village where a long tail boat was waiting for us. We travelled 20 min in the dark until we came upon the bay. What an amazing ride!
We took to playing chess in this restaurant
One of the lights that lit the way to our bungalow
Check out the cocunuts on her. Milky.
One thing though, our bungalow was robbed of some US cash, my cell phone, and our silk sleeping bag Liner (?!?!?) we never realised for 3 days or so though eh. Meh, the insurance will cover it later.
The day after, all confident and what not we decided to do this insanely steep trail to an enclosed lagoon in the rock. Coming down to it was seriously freaking me out, we are talking 3 four metre vertical drops, covered in red slippery mud and some knotted ropes to assist whatever descent you could muster. Megan couldnt make this one, but i just made it, and took a few pics, and got out of there. It was worth it though!
The next day we took another longtail up the coast for 45 minutes to Railay, a breathtaking peninsular covered in palms, resorts, guest houses, and rock climbers. One side is a mangrove beach (the cheap and smart choice for accomodation) but the other is stunning and only 5 mins walk across the peninsular.
On the first day we went on a walk and made random discoveries, like a cave 150m into a cliff face with the most amazing formations inside...
Dense mozzie infested jungle with abandoned bungalows, and then another beach with all the hard core travelers, including some rock climbing dragon boaters and some base jumpers who had jumped off that cliff you see in the photos above. The sunsets here were spectacular, we bought beers and sat and watched the red melt into the sea. We stayed 4 nights.
We kayaked to this mean beach and sat in hammocks. The moment you take your feet off the sand into your hammock all these crabs come out and stare at you
