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 ^^

Krabi, Ao Nang 2nd Day ~ 29 Aug 2010

Early morning around 7:30am, we kicked start our day with the complimentary breakfast in Peace Laguna Resort, an international buffet which is similar to what is offered in most of the hotels or resort. I just like it ^^


Here comes the transport fetching us to port for our SPEEDBOAT island hopping - Phi Phi Islands.


Hsing was excited and initiated to take the front seat. Really front seat... ... I was the most front passenger in this boat. We were happily taking some photos at the beginning ... ... just not too long, when the speed boat reached its top speed.... Jesus!!! The front seat was just terrible T_T We regretted sitting in front. My ass keep deviated from the seat as the boat was very bumpy due to the high speed along with the strong tide. We were so scared, as both of us are not good in swimming and we were not advised to put on life jacket. Besides grabbing the holder firmly, my legs also try to nestle closely to the seat. Hsing and another European girl kept screaming when the boat facing high tide. A total of 6 of us, 3 guys and 3 girls sitting in front seemed very nervous and scared T_T
No more front seat on speedboat next time!!! We were thinking to change to back seat after the first stop. But the tour guide said, "please get back to where u sat just now" .... .... Walao!!!

The 1st stop, Bamboo Island. Place to snookering, but the tour guide didnt pass us the snookering tools =.=" What a lousy service. Lucky this is only swallow water and we do bring 1 set goggle.

Ah... Very very co-incidence, we met S.B.Wong & his wife Angie there. We were on the same boat (actually I saw them while boarding, but he didn't notice me and I was a bit hesitate if I miss recognise him, thus didn't greet him) and actually, we were coming with the same flight as well, even return.

Some photos for the 2nd stop, Maya Bay.

This place is nice, but only for photo ^^ When you are facing the sea, both on your left and right are surrounded by mountains, and at your back is the protected area that needs entrance fees. (We did not have enough time for that, as we only stopped on this spot for 30 mins)

Phi Phi Island ^^ This is boring... ... Nothing to do. All you have here is hotel and shopping. We spent almost 1 hour free time on this island, but... .... boring =.="

Look at our tour guide... ... He was also boring and just laying on guni bag for rest =.="

The next stop, Monkey Island. Just as the name, there are many monkeys on the island. Another boring stop. We didn't really get down to the island. The boat just stopped for about 5mins near the island for us to enjoy the scenery and see monkeys -____- Shall I tell the tour guide, my satying place here in Setia Tropika also have lot of monkey on the road =.="


2nd snokering time. The 1st snokering was before Maya Bay. Both of us didn't join the 1st snokering as the 1st stop was at the middle of the ocean!!! Shit!!! I am a "land duck". You want me drown? Snokering in the middle of the ocean!!!
Anyway, the snokering here is only so so. For me, Redang Island has more beautiful snokering places ^^


Back to resort ^^ We had our complimentary dinner in the restaurant from our resort. It was a Thai set dinner, it was quite a good one.

After dinner, we went a walk on the street outside our resort again, and made booking for our next day trip ^^

Ok, here the end of our 2nd day. Tomorrow trip would be elephant trekking and visting to local famous spts. We managed to negotiate for a really good price. 1 of the sales girl did not even want to serve us when she heard we were offered at 850baht per person by her colleague (they were 2 sales girls when made our booking). Anyway, she was still very polite and answering our questions even she did not show interest to serve us. As I said, nice attitude and very polite people over there.

Actually her colleague only offer us 900baht. Just that Hsing saw a brochure on their table with hand written of 850baht ^^ Smart wife ^-^

Ao Nang - Krabi trip 1st Day

28 Aug ~ 1 Sep 2010, 5 days 4 nights trip to Thailand, Krabi with Hsing ^^
Hsing pay for the resort and airfare, I only pay for the expenses in Krabi. (Thought will not spend much there... ... but at the end still spent over RM1k =.=")

Thank you Wei Kow for fetching us to Changi Airport :-)
3am, we departed to Wei Kow's house, 3:40am we headed to Changi Airport as we needed to check in at 4:40am. But... ... the flight was delayed!!! from the initial time of 6.40am to 7:35am =.="

Plenty of time but nothing to do in Changi budget terminal, luckily there is McD for our breakfast =.="

After almost 1.5hrs flying time, here we are, the Krabi in Thailand. Forgot to take picture of our pick up car. Peace Laguna prepared a luxury MPV to fetch us from airport to resort, not sure what car was that, the size is similar to Alphard.
Spending another 30min, finally we reached our resort at Ao Nang. People here is really really nice and very polite.


Photos of our resort room which we spent 4 nights ^^ Nice and spacious


There is another outdoor bath shower, just besides the bathroom. We did not use it, as there is no hot water from this shower and ... ... full of algae on the water outflow hole ... ... =.="



Time to go out for some breakfast and travel agent searching.

Another photo on "Peace Laguna Resort" before departing ^^



1st day breakfast and 1st meal in AoNang. Is was not easy to find nice Thai food in Ao Nang. There are more Italiana food than local Thai food, believe this is to cater to European tourists' taste. We have our breakfast in a restaurant serving both Italiana and local Thai food. We ordered Pad Thai, Tomyam soup and Thai fried rice. (they served the nicest pad thai I tried from this whole trip, but the fried rice was tastless =.=")


We only spent little time searching for travel agent for our next few days activities. Actually they have plenty of travel agents on the street, just that we were lazy enquiring so many. As time was still early, we decided heading to the "big" shopping mall along the airport road, Tesco and Big C to buy .... .... Wacoal =.=" ... ... bra

The transport charges here is terrible. The charges are super expensive when they know we are tourist. How do they know? As long as you can't speak Thai ... ...
According to the Resort receptionist, we can take public transport to Tesco with only 60baht each. At the end, we spent 300baht for 2!!!
The above picture is their commonly use public transport.
It is even terrible when we returned from Big C (which is around 1km shorter distance than Tesco). We paid 400baht for 2 for a private car back. Same as hiring a taxi (they indicated the taxi fare on charges board, which I believe this rate is only applied for tourist!!!)


The meal we took in Big C. Papaya salad and Pad Thai. The papaya salad is really nice!!! Just too spicy >.<

Oops, forgot to mention, we actually fail to find Wacoal in both the Tesco and Big C. But Hsing did bring back 2 sets of Wacoal ^^ (We found them in the Outlet Village which is near to Big C).

This is the dry bag I bought in Ao Nang. Cost me 450baht after some bargaining. This will be useful for our upcoming island hopping ^^

Dinner time. Fish, tom yam soup and salad at the Wannai Restaurant. The steam fish with lemon juice was nice, but the fish taste like over-cooked lolz.

Ok, time to rest... for tomorrow trip. Phi Phi Island ^^