Where do we begin... it feels like we have been here a lot longer that just a few days. It's hard to belive we landed in Singapore only a week ago. We've been on the go and we are having a blast. So lets try to re-cap...

Our time in Bangkok consisted of sauntering up and down koh san road looking at what seemed to be pure chaos, but is just the daily lives ofthe busy street vendors. We took a water taxi to the incredible Grand Palace and Wat Po, both amazing!! And very blinging with their golden decor. We frequented a lovely little street ktichen just down the way from our hotel. The food was delicious, the price was right at 30 baht a plate (just over a dollar..), and it was run by the prettiest little lady boys. lol. We spent some of our time at our roof top pool, but it was a little chilly in the evenings for swimming.

We parted ways with Kait and hopped on an overnight bus down south to Krabi. Breanna kept a death grip on her bags all night as she slept... perhaps she was a bit paranoid about all the stories we'd heard about people getting stuff stolen. While we had nothing stolen we were deposited at a bus stop at 5am with no idea where we were and we were told it would be about 3 hours for the next bus. We played some cards with a nice Finnish boy which seamed to pass the time. To add to the adventure, Megan not knowing that we weren't getting back on the same bus accidently left our ticket on the bus which lead to some problems when trying to get on the next bus. However a small fee seemed to remedy the problem and we were on our way..

We finally arrived in Krabi town not really knowing where to go but we were immediatley ushered towards the docks where we got on a long tailed boat destined for Rai leh beach (Kudos to Kait who suggested we should pay it a visit). We stayed on Rai leh East which is the cheaper side, but it was only a short walk away from Rai leh west which is very much a resort beach and Tham Phra Nang which is a magnificent beach with cliffs that overhang the water. Rock climbing was huge at these beaches, we didn't partake but we did do our own sort of rock climbing when we ventured up a path in search for a lagoon. But in the end after scaling from rocks we found a mud hole... Apparently it's only a lagoon at high tide :p But it was still absolutly amazing as we found ourselves at the bottom of a lush cavern. Then we booked a half day kayaking trip which brings us up to today. We very much enjoyed our few das at Rai leh, it's hard to describe how truely lovely it was there. We were definitley a little sad to leave and I'm sure we will compare everywhere else to go to Rai leh.

Kayaking today was wicked!!! We had the coolest guides ever, named Sao and Joe :p They were so much fun. We went to two caves, the first we tied up the kayaks and got to wander through the caves on foot. There were some original and not so original cave drawings that we saw as well as some cool rock formations in the shape of a dragon and an old man. It was really neat in the caves knowing that many many years ago people really lived in them. The second cave we just paddled through and stopped on the other side to watch to walking fish. It was cool, they looked like half fish half lizards as they hopped along the mud. After kayaking we were dropped off at the ferry in Krabi and we took a ferry boat to Koh Phi Phi. Koh Phi Phi is a very busy, touristy, expesive location. We got a bungalow up on the hill a ways away from the beach and to commotion. Luckily on the ferry over Megan was reading her lonely planet guide and she read that there was a little secluded beach on the other side of the island which had more reasonable prices. The only set back is that it is only accesible by hiking a grueling path up over a steap hill!! We hiked over earlier today with only our little day packs and when we made it back we were dripping in sweat. Tomorrow we will attempt the hike with our big packs... There will be many rest stops... wish us luck!!!

BAM