Ao Nang
We caught our overnight bus from Bangkok to Krabi on Friday after a few days around the Khao San Road to catch up on chores and eat scrummy Pad Thai!
The 15 hours on the bus went surprisingly quickly, the only problem being that they turned the lights off at 19:30 and back on again at 23:00, off again at 1am and back on again at 5am! Still, we managed to get a fair bit of sleep as the bus wasn't full and we could spread out a bit. We shared a cab with another couple from Krabi to Ao Nang.
On first impressions, Ao Nang seemed a bit built up and not really what we had wanted from a Thai beach, but we thought it would be a good central place to start and to maybe get a trip around some islands from. It turned out htat there's a nice beach here with a cool cliff at the far end. We spent a bit of time looking around the town and checking out the dive shops. The best places to dive on the West coast are Phuket & Koh Phi Phi. With Phi Phi just a couple of hours boat ride away we're going to do a dive/snork trip there on Saturday. (We can't stay at either of those places as the popularity has priced us backpackers out of the area!)
Today we went on a 4 Island boat trip. We thought it had all gone a bit wrong this morning when they didn't show up at the time they'd said, but an hour later a guy ran up the road and put us in the back of his truck! (The main method of transport around here is converted pick-up trucks with 2 lines of benches - not too bad really, better than a moto).
The trip was beautiful , we visited a set of islands that because of the low tide were accessible, one from the other by just walkking along the sand bank. We went to Chicken Island - so called because of the stone formation that resembles a chicken's head, and did a bit of snorkling around Koh Si. A lovely day on the boat! It did piss it down with rain the afernoon, but that was ok!
Any ho - the man at the hotel wants to shut up shop, so I must go. We're off to Koh Jum tomorrow until Friday when we're back in Ao Nang. Not sure if there'll be any internet access there as we're hoping it'll be our desert island paradise, so we'll probably upload lots of idylic photos at the weekend!
posted by Chris and Jen Coleman @ 3:21 pm
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We went cannooing at the weekend at Centre Parcs in Elveden, which whilst not quite the same at Thailand was still entertaining. We went out in a 6 person Kata-Canoe which was pretty cool, and most people managed to stay pretty dry during the trip round the lake there.
However, disaster struck for Mr Puttock when he attempted to splash Nigel on the pontoon post exiting the canoe, he lost his balance and fell in the lake. We laughed...a lot.
Centre Parcs in Elveden is a pretty decent place, although was obviously a bit worried, it being in Elveden and all. Didn't see any wolves or Great Old Ones, but there were far too many squirrels for my liking.
Cheers,
James
People always fall in trying to splash each other in my experience. Isn't it a bit cold for that sort of malarky though?
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