Showing posts with label Krabi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Krabi. Show all posts

Jan 9, 2011

Last of Railay

 Nu entertaining us with Hanna's krama
 Nu (with a shirt, how odd!) doing what he does best: entertaining the crowds. Oh my Buddha!
 Helps to know the party throwers as well as the fighter and the judge... you get vip seats for the game ;)
 Phuket with the red gloves, Krabi (that's Yaya, our trainer) in blue.
 Yaya won. Of course.
 Santi (alias DJ Johnny) doing what he does best... also with a shirt on for once.
 The rest of the Yaya guys, also wearing shirts, working as bartenders...

 This is the reception where we left our bags (and that we used as our changing room and.. everything) during the days and nights when we had nowhere to stay..
 Where we slept the last night... picture two more people in that bed and you can probably understand that neither Matt (the kind owner of the bed who did not know what he agreed to when offering us a place to sleep) nor Hanna got a lot of sleep... since they could barely fit on the bed.
 Leaving Yaya
 Leaving Railay

Waiting for our minivan to take us from Ao Nang to Hat Yai.
Can you tell we need sleep and a shower? And clothes we haven't slept in. 
And the fact that Hanna is eating her noodle soup from a bag and Ruut her salad, does not make us look too representable.

We never really felt like we did fit in with the other beach tourists(we did fit in with the Yaya rasta guys very well, too well, though), but when entering the minivan, with all the other passengers being veil clad Muslim women, we didn't quite fit in with them either in our shabby state...

Jan 6, 2011

Leaving Krabi - Day 93

Our mooching levels have reached a new high:
Because of bad weather and poor planning we ended up staying one more night in Rai Leh, this time sharing a bed with a super helpful and kind Aussie who took pity on us and decided to lend us a helping hand. We're ever so grateful and happy we avoided sleeping in a tent during the torrential downpour that prevailed all through the night.
People did apparently not want us to leave. Our muay thai instructor looked very sad this morning (despite winning the fight last night) and when asking what was wrong, he replied: "I am sad you leave today. Please stay.". Another guy at the bar made up an elaborate story about the bus and train stations being flooded demonstrating vividly with a map explaining the meteorogical phenomenon which laid behind, so we would have to stay in Krabi a few more days....
Though our stay has been fun and exciting, we really want to get a move on and see new places before the inevitable and dreaded return to Finland... Also we are a bit tired of taking showers in public bathrooms and explaining to people that we do not know where we are heading next.
Time to ditch Thailand in favor of neighboring Malaysia. Scuba diving will be our top priority there.

//R

Jan 4, 2011

Railay & Phranang Beach, Krabi - Day 90, 91












































..it's pretty, but touristy. We don't fit in, we don't want to fit and and we want to leave. The country. Tomorrow, hopefully.