Thai Islands 1

Hey everyone

I am currently sitting in an internet cafe because the weather is a bit overcast...but its the first time since my last update that there has not been beautiful sunshine...so i'm taking this golden opportunity to update this blog.

Ko Phi Phi was absolutely beautiful. Plenty of people told me not to go there because it has become far too commercial and it is a bit of a construction site because they are trying to rebuild the town following the devastating effects of the tsunami. However, me and Jo were pleasantly surprised with the island.

On our first day, Jo was really ill and spent teh day in bed so i went off exploring, and found an amazing beach and lovely little market stalls scattered around. I didn't do much else as I was exhausted from the previous night sleeping in the airport!

Day 2 on Phi Phi was spent lying on the beach, doing a bit of snorkelling and hitting a few bars at night.

Day 3 - we went on a fishing trip with some boys we met from edinburgh. Having never fished in my entire life, i was really happy to catch 3 fish during the course of the day (ok, i know its not a lot but still...better than nothing!). It was a really relaxing day sailing around all the different islands.

Day 4 - today me and Jo (along with the edinburgh boys) went on a boat trip for the day around the phi phi islands. We visited the island where the film 'The Beach' was filmed and various others, where we could go snorkelling and kayaking. It was great day where we sailed around and then stopped off at magnificient beaches for an hour or so, before getting back on the boat. We had a huge night out that night because it was our final night on the island, so off it was to the many bars on the beach to drink many many buckets filled with god knows what alcohol! We knew we would never make the 9am boat when we stumbled into bed at 5am!

Day 5 - after missing the 9am boat (there was absolutely no chance on earth we were gtting up after 3 hours sleep!) we booke doutrselves onto the 3.30pm boat to Railey Beach. Feeling slighty fragile, we spent the day going from coffee house to coffee house wasting the day away. At 3.30 we got on teh boat for one and a half hours to take us to Railey Beach. Railey is probbly the most beautiful beach i have ever seen in my entire life...stunning white sands surrounded by cliffs that people go rock climbing on (I however, did not partake in this). We stayed at a lovely resort because there is not really any cheap accomodation here, but only for one night. I would reccommend anyone to go to Railey. The only downfall is that they have yet managed to build a pier so when we arrived (and left) we had to wade through knee deep water in our flipflops and carrying our 15kg rucksacks...its not a surprise that i fell over on the way in!!!!

Day 6 - We left Railey for Krabi Town..now, everyone told us that we must visit this town, but me and Jo were not too impressed with it so we booked ourselves onto a bus and boat to take us to Ko Samui the following day.

Day 7 - we spent the entire day travelling to Ko Samui...apparantly we were supposed to arrive at 4.30pm, but we somehow didnt get into our hotel until 8.30pm! Great! Anyway, we met some really nice people on the bus and boat and ended up having a great day, follwed by dinner and drinks in Samui until the wee hours. Samui is very commercial and very big and even has a starbucks, burger king and piza hut on the road we are staying on! Its a bit too much like home for us so we are off to another island tomorrow morning probably.

Hope everyone at home is well

love danielle xxxxxxxxx