Happy new year again! I`m still here, sat on a beach in Thailand! Sorry for the long delay since the last post.
The January detox is going alright, that is if we exclude the night before last when i might of had a few excusable beers. You see i`m back travelling on my own again now. Not since meeting Will in Hanoi had i been free of a travelling companion, so after 4 countries and god knows how may cities later we had a few/many farewell drinks in krabi and said our goodbyes with the hope to maybe meet up again in new Zealand.
We left Koh phangan on a night boat heading to Suratthani, i had`nt done one of these till this point, and unlike most of the people on this rickety old boat i slept like a absolute baby for the entire duration. After getting off that and onto the bus to krabi i again fell asleep, only to be this time awoken at the destination.......... a quick trip to the toilet and back and i returned to find that we`d booked a hostel and that a taxi was here to take us! It`s easy this travelling malarkey.
Krabi was nice, it was good to have the Internet again (sad i know) and electricity 24/7, but it was really just somewhere to store our bags while we went over to railay bay for a few days.
Railays known mainly for it`s rock climbing and on arrival you understand why. The cliffs are spectacular and apart from `Railay east` the place has some of my favourite beaches within asia that i`ve seen so far. It`s really small and felt secluded from most people (kind of like the beach from `the beach`, (which i`ll actually be going to the day after tomorrow)). The best thing about railay though are the climbers themselves. Because the majority of people are here for that reason alone there seems to be far less sun worshipping going on than anywhere else (or at least that`s how it felt to me on the beach we settled on) and on top of this you can`t help but have a good time in the company of climbers. There a strange lot for sure, like a cult really. This one guy had been here for 4 months. That`s 4 months, every day just climbing and just so happy to be doing so. They all love what it is that their doing and have this big kid attitude of just climbing stuff for a laugh.
I really did enjoy it here, i think i just like it when people are doing stuff with themselves rather than sunbathing. I`ve come to realize i`m not the greatest of sunbathers, (although that is exactly what i`m doing now) but that`s also probably something to do with this special "easy burn" body i was blessed with.
oh i was also messing about with a 360 panoramic so check that out here. A little gimmicky buy hey i was bored.
Our last night back in Krabi and we went to the local festival, i had the funniest of nights with Will.
We cheered on bands as people watched in silence and had a good few drinks while chatting about the months that had passed. I`ve had a quality time travelling together but am really looking forward to meeting up with more people over the next few weeks.
In less than a month now i`ll be moving on from Asia which has been home for the last 6 months and onto a new continent to explore.
1 comments:
The 360 panoramic is actually rather cool :)
But you have no right to say you're bored!!! Look where you are!
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