Phi Phi

So the ferry over the phi phi was pretty nice, we could sit up on top and they sold chang for half nothing so I was happy out. When we got the Phi Phi I knew this was a place I would like, the main part of the island is tiny and there are no cars at all on it, so you walk everywhere and no one is offering you tuk tuks (They are still on about the Thai Massage!). There’s a real laid back attitude on this island and I loved it. No one rushing around the place and everyone is again very friendly.

Our hotel / hut thing was very different, Phi Phi Casita, just a load of tiny bungalows on stilts surrounded by frogs and the likes. That night after checking in we just had a look around the town and had a drink on the beach watching a fire show (class).

The next day we hit the beach for an hour and decided to canoe out to Monkey Bay which was excellent, canoeing was a hell of a lot tougher than I remember but I reckon that’s cause we were canoeing out of a bay?

We had an island hopping trip planned for the next day which was the best trip out of the whole lot. We seemed to get a good deal and there were a few Irish on our boat which was a bit of craic. First stop was another Monkey Bay where a Monkey decided to sit on my head and have a look around. He seemed happy out anyway.

He then brought us to the back of Maya Bay (Where “the beach” was filmed) where we snorkeled over to a cave type thing and climbed through to Maya bay, it was pretty impressive, kinda spoiled by the speed boats in the bay but it was pretty picturesque anyway.

After that we stopped for lunch in this lagoon which was unbelievable, completely closed in from the sea, the water so blue and all of that.

We then went for another bit of snorkeling which I was slowly getting the hang of. You can definitely see the appeal of it, the fish we saw and the colours we saw were amazing.

Then we went to the nicest beach / island I have ever been on, Bamboo Beach, it was out of this world. We were also the only ones on the beach which made a difference but I just couldnt get over the scenery.

So to celebrate the great tour we had a few buckets of Thai Rum that night which are pretty good, not as strong as I was expecting but good all the same.

The next day was a pretty relaxing one, well until we decided to head up to the viewing point. A pretty steep hike up to the hills above Phi Phi, it was well worth it though when the sun was setting.

So that was about it for Phi Phi, of all the places I’ve been so far I would definitely recommend this place to everyone. Next stop Chang Mai!