Monday, September 6, 2010

The last day in Krabi, the 5th day. End of our Krabi trip

On our last day, we had the same breakfast again ^^ Although this is the 4th times, still enjoy ourselves with this international buffet style breakfast :p

No more tour for today. We have shopping untill 11am as we have to get ourselves ready to leave to airport by 12pm. Flight check in time will be at 1pm for our flight at 3pm. Tuk tuk car, souvenir shop, pharmacy, restaurant and massage shop can be easily found all over Ao Nang street.

Scarf, this was where we spent 2,000baht!!! Hsing bought 2 scarves, according to the lady both scarves are hand made with high quality silk, that is why they are so expensive. We hope what she said is a truth as we know nothing about silk =.=" There are also other shops selling at only 400~800baht per piece, but fail to attract Hsing. She picked a grey colour one, which they are holding costs 1300baht (original price at 1900baht) and a green colour, which Hsing was holding in a bag costs 700baht(original pricce at 900baht).

This is a photo showing the wiring there seems to be overloaded. We always hear "bak bak" sound along the street during night time.

Time to say goodbye to Ao Nang T_T

Ah... thank you Peace Laguna Resort for arranging a luxury car sending us to airport. The one sent us to resort upon our arrival is consider very luxury among all the transport in Krabi. But this is even more luxury. Wao! Feel like VIP ^^

While waiting for boarding at the airport, we had another meal of local food. Pad Thai and Tom Yam Noodle ^^

-The End of our lovely Krabi trip-

P.S. Hsing, thanks for helping me correct grammar mistakes in my 5 Krabi posts ^^

4th Day in Krabi

4th day - We have the same breakfast at the same venue again. Enough photo, so skip ^^
Today we have 4 islands tour by Long Tail Boat. No more speed boat as this is a complimentary tour from our ASEAN package by Peace Laguna Resort. (speed boat tour is more expensive) It is going to be a new experience.
The one sitting on wheel chair is an Australian, the girl beside him is from Thailand. Maybe is she is his tour guide. We didn't ask, but she is taking care of him for the whole trip. They also stay in Peace Laguna. From him, we can see the "kind spirit" of human. Most people are lending a helping hand even though we are all coming from different part of the world. Both the tour guide and our European tourists help carrying and helping him up and down from the boat in every stop. Of course, I was helping too, just that I am too skinny to carry him. So, I only help to carry his wheelchair ^^



From this angle, this island really look like a turtle ^^ (There are actually 2 separated islands from the head and body of the turtle)



1st stop, Tub Island. We are lucky to be able to reach there at low tide. We can actually walk to another 2 neighbour islands by the sandy causeway. 3 islands are link together as a "T". Tour guide said the sandy causeway will be covered by water during high tide.
It was windy when we arrived. Part of the sky was covered with dark cloud. We did not spend much time here as it rained about 20mins after our arrival, and the tour guide requested us to leave the island.



Chicken island. Mm... really looks like a chicken head lolz
Only photo taking, no landing on this island.


After this was snookering time!!! No one was helping us for a photo taking during our snookering T_T ... ... In fact, this point was not a good snookering spot as there were only a few kind of fishes and some coral. According to tour guide, another point nearby is better, just that due to strong wind, it was not recommended to snookering there on that day.




Poda Island. This island is nice. A very beautiful beach and good scenery for photo taking. Look at the water, 2 tone colours. And this "cubing" island is also very nice for photo taking as a background ^^
This is also the place where we had our lunch-box. White rice with green curry and vegetable. Not a nice lunch, but enough to regain energy for our next spot =P



Phra Nang Beach - another island with nothing much to do. We only scrolled along the beach and tooke some photos. It was a relaxing one. Some local ladies provide foot massage services on the beach with 300baht for 30mins (more expensive than Ao Nang beach, which you can easily find 200baht per hour); others are selling grill corn and some are giving monkey show.

It was rather boring for us, but the 2 European little girls were having fun climbing up the boat and jumping into the water, with different styles (the 1st photo below, but a bit small).



Due to the strong wind and rain day, we had to call it a day earlier than expected. We went back to Ao Nang at around 4pm. Upon shower, we went out to hunt for food. Hsing wanna tried the banana crepe, and we walked more than 1km to another street for it.

This auntie really made a nice banana+coco crepe for us. The best crepe I had in Ao Nang (we tried 4 same crepes from 4 different stalls). This crepe was very crunchy which makes it so perfect ^^ She gave us a special treat, collecting 20baht from us for our banana+coco which normally sells at 25baht.


After the 1st crepe, Hsing wanna tried another one from a different stall. This one was not so crunchy and of course, not as good as our first try, ... ... 20baht without chocolate topping.


During dinner time, we went back to the same stall we had our dinner last night ^^ This time we ordered only Tom Yam soup with grill corn and papaya salad. Ah! And Hsing bought another banana+coco crepe from another stall again =.=" the 3rd crepe for the day... ...

After finishing our dinner, Hsing said she wanna try the banana shake that she saw when buying the crepe. So we bought another banana... .. actually is 2 bananas for a cup of milk shake. Ha! Ha! Totally we had 5 banana for both of us. Hsing was thinking whether to try mango shake before ordering as we seem to have eated too many bananas, but then decided for a banana shake which only cost us 20baht =)




Upon collecting our banana shake, a doggy kept following us. This doggy was very cute. When Hsing was sitting in front of Swensen's for a photo taking, it stayed beside Hsing to join her for a photo taking together, and then only walked away slowly @.@


That is all for today. Tomorrow will be the last day for us in Ao Nang lo... ...

Sunday, September 5, 2010

3rd day trip - Jungle Trekking

Again~ International buffer breakfast before our today activity ^^

1 hour elephant trekking. Of course, we not riding by our own. Every elephant has 1 trainer following us. The trainer is actually sitting on their head, and tourist sit on the tighten seat. Is not enjoyable as I thought, as elephant is walking slow and it is actually very swaying while they are moving. Somemore has nothing to do other than talking and taking photo. Anyway is a experience to sit on elephant ^^
We also have photo section and elephant feeding after back to their "base". But we didnt feed them, cos we have to pay them for banana and feed their elephant... ... No way!
It is hardly to see it. But on top of this mountain, there is actually a temple and huge figure of Buddha. This is where our next destination. 1237 staircase to top of mountain >.<"

Here we are! Finally we have reach 1237 steps high! Is hot and tired, but ... ... achievement!!!
This is the giant Buddha on top of the mountain. At first, I thought there has a big temple and lots of monk or nun here. I was wrong. Here only have some Buddha figure and only 2~3 people here. Maybe they should expand or upgrade it =.=".

Lunch time. We have our lunch at a fishing pond. Mm... nothing special to recall here. Food also not nice.

Emerald pool. As its name, emerald color. The yellow color rock surround the pool is very slippery. Hsing slip down and hit her ass @.@
Mm... also not very beautiful as what I thought. Maybe the internet has describe till too good. The higher expectation, the more disappointment -__________-

Hot Spring Waterfall. This place is amazing. When the tour guide said the temperature is around 30++ degree, I still thought is only so so, cos 30++ is just like our normal whether lo. But when I go into it... ... this is HOT!!! Tour guide said, for safety reason, each person cannot be inside more than 30mins. I cannot stand even 5mins.... ... =.=" so hot...
It might be shiok for those who like to jacuzzi or sauna ^^!!!

Dinner time, we have our best food in Ao Nang. Not only nice, but also cheap. 280baht for all of these. Tom yam soup, BBQ corn with butter n salt, pad thai (this not so nice), BBQ chicken & Papaya salad (this the best ^^)
Where is this stall? Very near to us, walk out from Peace Laguna Resort, turn right, then within 100m can see ^^ It only starts evening. There is another stall just next to them also lot of customers, might be nice as well although we didnt try.

Next day trip. 4 island. This is complimentary with our resort ASEAN package. We actually planing to go Hong island instead of this, while we totally forgetting about this free trip. Since now we have a free trip, save up the Hong island money ^^