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From Phi Phi I travelld to Krabi via ferry and from krabi to railay bay. The transfer i got in a longtail dropped us on the far side of the pennisula at lowtide so we had to wade about 400m into shore along a submerged concrete path that dropped off into deeper water - tricky with merky water and backpacks!! But once onto the main beach it was worth it! A beautiful 500m stretch of sand bracketed by soaring cliffs with numerous island emerging from the sea. Another quick longtail around to the next bay and I was in Ton Sai which had a much more hippy vibe with lots of rockclimbers and an amazing bar sitting underneath the overhanging rockface! i treked back up into the jungle as it started to get dark, arriving at my stilted bungalow.
After a rainy day at the beach, I went back to my room to clean up and saw something fall from behind the curttain. I thought someone was playing a bad practical joke, dropping a cheap looking rubber snake thru the window... until it started moving!! Just over a foot long and about finger width, I was pretty sure it was harmless. Even thogh, I was slightly freaked out but not wanting to just leave it crawl into my bed, I decided to make sure it left thru a crack inthe floor. The guy at the front desk said it was probably a golden treesnake and they drop out of trees onto people all the time. Great!
I was suposed to fly to bangkok on friday but obviously that wasn't going to happen so ended up on a 15 hour night bus that dropped me god knows where, taking a tuktuk to my friend Elly's place at waking her up at 6am!
Forget afghanistan, pakistan, india or iraq. Apparently, thailand is now listed as the most dangerous country in the world!! Yep, a bunch of protestors in yellow with clappy hand flappers throwing a tantrum are more dangerous that al queda! Ok, so 100,000 tourists are stuck in Bangkok but other than that - there is no sign of danger here - unless you count bars out the side of combi vans selling cocktail buckets - weapons of mass hangovers!
Elly guided me around Bangkok yesterday, taking me to the Grand Palace, Wot Pho, the reclining Buddha, flower markets and little india - soaking up all the madness, beauty , chaos and despair that it Bangkok. In the evening we met up with a group of her friends, eating in a huge open air market then going on a bar crawl from ice bars to street bars with human skulls to VW bars - grabbing some deep fried grasshoppers on the way - hmm, tasty!!
Today was a late start and a trip out to the weekend market - a sprawling, swirling mix of knock offs, animals, food and clothes.
It might be a crazy, busy, intene city but it doesn't feel dangerous.
Gotta go join my tour group now, jumping on a bus to Cambodia in the morning! More soon
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