To get to Krabi, Milena and I had to take a night boat from Ko Tao to Suritani, then a coach through the early hours to our destination. The night boat allowed about 80 passengers, with room only to lie down on your own thin allocated thin mattress, all of which were lined up next to each other in two rows along the main cabin of the boat. I was able to get an adequate night sleep on the boat as the sea wasn't too choppy. Following sleeping some more on the coach to Krabi, a taxi ride to Ao Nang and a long tail boat to Ton Sai beach, we had arrived where we would be staying for the next couple of nights.

This whole area is a hub for rock climbers, since the landscape is frequented by jutting outcrops of rocky mountainsides. We contemplated giving it a go, but there was enough to do in the time we had without doing it, fun though it looked.

We didn't have too much trouble finding a place to stay, although after so much travel we were getting a little bit worn down, but pressed on. After a ten-minute walk from the secluded beach front, along a winding path through dense forest, we found the under-construction guesthouses. There were plenty available for 200 Baht per night. The wooden guest hut, complete with ensuite and mosquito net was a decent find. The noise from the workmen making new huts about 50 yards away didn't cause much distraction. At times though, it wasn't the workmen, it was the jungle's insects copying the noises they had heard, which was amusing...for a while.

After dropping our things off at the hut, we went to the reception hut to get some food. It's a good thing I'm not a fussy eater, as rice was just about the only thing on the menu. I asked for an orange juice and got a fresh glass of satsuma juice, not quite what I was expecting. It's a good thing I'm not a fussy drinker either.

We decided it was time to explore a little bit, so we headed back toward the beach, but were met along the way by lots of monkeys in the dense trees at the sides of the path. Much of this area including Ton Sai and Railey beach was to be explored over the next couple of days, before we took a boat across to Ko Phi Phi, famous for its use in the film ‘The Beach’.