Railay Beach, a penisula between Ao Nang and Krabi, reccomended by a friend we had met in Ko Phangang earlier in our trip we decided to head to the beach that we were promised was much more of a cultural trip than Ko Phangang and Phi Phi! On arrival in Railay we were greeted with just what we had been told, the area doesn't have cars and is a small and friendly community. None of the bolshy sellers of Ko Sahn road occupy this serene beach but building work is de...

''Seek high ground immediately'' Railay, a spectacularly beautiful peninsula on the Thai coast of Krabi, the landscape currently untouched by tourism and unwelcome to motor vehicles is host to some of the country's best climbing locations. Recommended by an ex-inhabitant met in Bangkok, myself and the other three teenagers I was travelling were overwhelmed by Railay's incomparable serenity and beauty- A welcome change from the bustle of Bangkok and boozers o...