Krabi Trip Day 2

Another busy day as the gang have put on a tight schedule to do the island hopping trip. According to them and the travel agency, our 1 day trip if for other visitors would be broken up into 2 days. Anyhows, me and my wife woke up early to have breakfast and perhaps take some pictures. Breakfast was not fancy, the usual stuff you can find in almost any hotels nowadays, fried meehoon, sausages, eggs and bread. I don't remember seeing any coffee though.

As we stayed out the previous night until more than 1am, many looked like zombies and would prefer NOT to have their pictures taken so i took some sceneries and the hotel pictures. After changing, we gathered at the lobby where some of the guys are still having their breakfast and since we did not know that bread would be provided when we go snorkelling we decided to bring some of our own bread from the hotel's breakfast. We packed 2 bags full.

The van came to pick us up and brought us to town to board the boat as the tides there are higher at that time. The island hopping was nothing fancy, similar to what we can get when go to places like Redang, Perhentian or the like. The only difference would be the crowd on the beaches, i would say that more than 90% are westerners. Only saw 1 topless lady sunbathing and at that a middle aged woman. So again nothing fancy :p

At one of the islands, we get to visit a tsunami evacuation site. It was about a 5-10 minutes walk into the jungle and was about a few meters higher than the sea level, along the way, you can see the signs showing how high the previous tsunami water level was. The site is actually a rocky cliff where there are many jagged edges, i was thinking if the waters were to pound the people who were fleeing against the wall of the cliff then they would have cuts all over.

We had lunch and the food served was MUCH better than any of the restaurants that we visited other than the pizza of course :p. Perhaps its because we were all hungry, there was a green curry dish which i really do think pwns the rest of the dishes i had over the course of this trip.

Chicken island can easily be recognized by a shape of 2 islands where the smaller island looks like a small head popping out of the sea from its "body" (the other bigger island). We landed at its head and proceeded to walk over to its body. The walk takes about 20-30 minutes as we would be walking in knee high water levels at the middle portion of the walk over to the "body" island. The highlight of it was the fact that you can cross islands easily as there is nothing on this island.

The fishes during snorkelling were hungry as always when it comes to bread. I got 2 bite marks to show for =_=. The boatmen threw some leftover fruits including a piece of pineapple to attract the fishes to the surface. So photographers take note, pack some pineapples from the hotel along with bread to attract the fishes if you wanna take pictures.

The boatmen brought us to an island which some sort of a lagoon which they claim that Pirate of the Caribbean was filmed there. The water was very murky as there is almost no circulation of water in or out of the lagoon. We passed at the chance to take a dip there.

Like i mentioned to my friends earlier to skip the island hopping trip if possible because we finished all the planned islands with 2 extra hours to kill, so the boatmen brought us to an extra island where the waters was deeper and lifejacket becomes a must as there are strong undercurrents.

We landed in front of hotel's beach as its high tide there now at about 5-6pm. Everyone was exhausted. Final night dinner and we ordered all seafood with the usual dishes like pineapple fired rice and tomyams.

One of the girls know that there is a Tesco nearby and would like to go there and get something items like Lay's chips which i agree is something like half price that of Malaysia's. Remember i mentioned "nearby"? Tesco Lotus (perhaps something like Tesco Extra) was actually 25km from town and closes at 10pm. When we finished dinner it was already about 8.30pm. No time to lose but communication to get a tuk-tuk there was TOUGH! The driver gave us a superb price or so we thought, about 20-30 minutes later we arrived at Tesco. Upon reaching the price changed and our jaws dropped!!! He doubled the initial price and we both could not understand each other and had a big argument. Its so damned hard to find an English speaking Thai there. After frantic search for help, we got a nice Thai girl to help do some translation and found out that he was actually charging for a round trip.

So we did our shopping and i had a stomachache after paying for the goods. I went to the toilet and found that its operational hours is the same as the shopping complex??? 10pm closed. OMG, luckily i was having a bad stomachache else i would have had to take dump at the roadside.
I was so freaking tired that i skipped the clubbing session which the rest of the gang went until something like 2am.

Day 3 is just to pack up and head back home. Reached KL Sentral at about 5pm, GREAT just in time for traffic jam.