Krabi#4 Kayak@Bor Thor & Elephant Trekking

Another full day for us! The night before, we shopped along the beach road for tours in Aonang and finally decided to do some kayaking and elephant trekking. There are whole loads of other things to do in Aonang like ATV (all terrain vehicle), rock climbing, water rafting, snorkeling, diving...

Got ourselves a package from tour operator 'Cavemen' for kayaking @ Bor Thor***** and elephant trekking*** for 1400baht per pax. Our Cavemen tour guide is really humorous and provide quality service ;) About 45 minutes car ride from Aonang, we reach the village of Bor Thor.

A different experience of kayaking around such beautiful limestones and caves.

This is the first stop, Pee Hua Toh Cave***** [means big headed ghost] there are old cave paintings dated 2000-3000 years back..

Kayaking inside the cave.. Woohoo...

the following photo: mangrove forest, taken when you lay down on the kayak ;)

Returning back to the village after the 2nd cave, we had lunch. We were so hungry that everything taste so good! After the lunch break, the exploration continues!!

We kayaked a total of 4 caves.

Garden of Eden***** is the best ever, the name really is a fantasy~ well you cant get the whole picture here, get there and you can feel it!

Enough of hand exercise, next on is elephant trekking in rubber estate. Expect bumpy ride as the elephant bring you uphill. It was a good experience, but not much to see in the rubber estate. There are other elephant trekking tours that bring ppl through forest and rivers. Guess that will be more exciting.. :)

Interesting stuff we saw: butterflies mating, our 'elephant driver' teaching us to make sounds from leaves and cobra from long grass. The little jumbos are so obedient to the owner.

P: truly, there is such thing as elephant language...

A: =.=

Inside the tuk-tuk or songthaew, can fit about 10pax. Costs 20baht per pax around the beach area.

Not forgetting, a good body massage to end our trip.. Actually we got ourselves body massage almost every night! hohooho, only 200baht per hour..

Krabi#3 Phi Phi to Ao Nang

Our last day in Phi Phi ~ doing our last photoshoot at the beach..

Love the picture above! So colorful and nice posture~~

Must try in Phi Phi --> pineapple shake, coconut shake, and orange shake!!

SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE~~~

So far we tried the 2 most recommended restaurants in PP, Garlic Restaurant$ and Papaya Restaurant$. This two stall is full everyday for dinner time, we had to wait quite a long time before savoring the tom yam and green curry! Food at papaya is so spicy!!! U can always request for 'less spicy' but still.. the portion is really big, like 2 person can share for one dish. At Garlic, we love the beef rosti..

Arriving at Krabi town pier, arrange a van while on board the ferry to send us to our booked guest house at Aonang. We stayed at Harvest House$, the price is reasonable, about 1000baht per night. Rooms as u can see is big, clean and comfortable with king size bed... Oh, the staff here is really helpful and friendly. Though its quite a walk to the beach, about 15 minutes.

The search for seafood begins, walking along the road to beach area, we passed by many restaurants. All putting 'seafood displays' in front of the shop. oOo so mouth watering.. As you get nearer to the beach, the price of seafood gets more expensive.

We settled to dine in at Aree Bar Bar$$ restaurant. We had big tiger prawns, oyster, mussel, clam, white snapper, papaya salad and mix vege. So fresh, so good :P the bill comes out about 400baht per person.

Here, we tried the best Pad Thai (fried noodle) in Aonang. Ordered one at first, finished in seconds (imagine 7ppl sharing a pad thai, lol), ordered a second one then Peter wants to have the third one all by himself!!! This stall is just in front of McDonald's and Starbucks. (click on the image to enlarge)

Krabi#2 Piley Bay, Maya Bay, Monkey Island, Bamboo Island & Sunset

A BIG breakfast for an intensive day of island hopping and snorkeling! WOOHOO.. got ourselves a private charted longtail boat for 4000baht (7pax) inclusive of snorkeling equipments, lunch, drinking water and fruits~ we can go anywhere we want with our boatmen for 8 hours, avoiding the tourist crowd ^^

Getting ready, finding our own 'duck feet' =) ooh, ricky got his 'squid' feet.. lol (the blue flippers on the right looks just like a pair of squids!)

Our first stop of PP island hopping --> Pileh Bay*****

My gosh, all of us can't stop screaming!! AAaahhh..

P: Why can so beautiful one!!! Crazyy..

Indeed, entering through a narrow path between huge limestones into a wide pool of turquoise sea water.. amazing..! good spot for swimming, not snorkeling though.

This photo is the only photo that successfully taken under water by our Canon.
Yeah~~

Second stop --> Maya Bay***** famous as it was used as the filming location for movie

'The Beach' (Leornardo DiCaprio). there's no resort on this beach but u can camp for the night, if u dare ^^

Check out P&A video on Maya Bay, we are so excited!!

The most beautiful beach in PP.

next stop --> Monkey Beach***

as the name tells, surely u wanna feed some monkeys here. the beach is fine, crowdy but not as nice as Maya beach. If u love monkeys, this is the place for ya. there's a stall selling snacks and coconut drink here. Good place for lunch break~

We had quite a rough sea that day, even braver, facing the waves with only a small longtail boat. had to skip snorkeling at mosquitoe and bamboo island as well =.= still, here's what we caught @ Bamboo Island*** --> hermit crabs

Our last stop is Shark Point**='(
sad cause we didn't get to see any shark, not our lucky day. in fact the marine life and corals in Krabi and PP area is nothing compared to the beautiful Redang Island (malaysia) marine life.

After the intensive snorkeling, we climb about 20minutes to reach the first Phi Phi viewpoint. Even more tiring, but we were greeted by this beautiful rainbow =) NICE! Energy gained, now straight on to the next viewpoint..!

Beautiful... From the second viewpoint, we can clearly see the both sides of Tonsai Bay and Lo Dalum Bay. Just enjoy the beautiful sunset here..