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Monday morning we flew to Krabi, stopped at Tesco (same same but different) to grab lunch and supplies. Then a bus to the pier, then a short boat ride to our home for the night, an island called Koh Klang. First we took a tour of the village by tuktuk, they're a bit different here, a motorbike with a little sidecar. We stopped at a rubber plantation to see where the rubber comes from and how they make it. Then to a textiles workshop where we had a go at hand painting patterns onto fabric. An area where locals fish, a local man took us out to show us the things they catch in the sand-very skilled and long work for not a lot of reward. Lots of crabs too big and small. Finally we stopped at a little craft shop and I bought my first real piece of crap which I really love, 2 frogs sailing in a boat obviously....something else for Leanne to take home for me. There were lots of kids playing football, we'd taken gifts but I didn't think they looked overly impressed when everyone else was giving them out. I ended up giving my books and crayons to a little girl at the petrol station just getting fuel with her grandad and sister. She was only about 3 but smiled and said hello in English, she was lovely. The petrol station was a little shack with glass bottles on a shelf out front containing different coloured fuels, you just drive up and pour the bottle into your tank. This village seemed to be a bit better off than my homestay in Laos.
We were sleeping in cabins on stilts, 7 of us girls stayed in one which was pretty nice with two toilets and a shower. We had dinner cooked for us which was so good, a curry, vegetables, fish, rice, soup, omelettes. There had been lightening all night but when going to bed the rain started. Lying in bed writing this sleeping on a mattress on the floor with a mozzie net thankfully. There are windows and a roof, but there is about a foot gap between the ceiling and the roof so lots of bugs, creepy crawlies and noises. The lightening is lighting the whole place up, I've never heard thunder this loud before. I can hear all the men standing out watching it, I really want to go but I'm too scared of all the bugs and everyone else is asleep already.
Me and Leanne got up early for a run, the whole village seemed to already be up and about, probably woken up by a rooster like me.
At breakfast two of the girls in the other cabin said they'd been woken up in the night by a man in their room, when they asked him what he wanted he left. We told the owners and Anek, nobody seemed that bothered - things work a little differently here.
We returned to the mainland, quick tour of the mangroves and a cave on the way back. Im looking forward to a real bed for two whole nights, I might actually unpack!
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