From Krabi town we headed to Railay passing through Ao Nang. Railay has some undeniably stunning sites but we were kind of disappointed with the place. We landed probably the cheapest accomodation at in the place at Ya Ya resort (600 baht per night) and it had probably the nasty toilet we've ever seen too. The problem with Railay though is that everything else is so overpriced. Food, tours, even bottled water is upwards of three times more expensive then it is in larger areas like Ao Nang or Krabi town. Like a 6 baht bottle of water is like 20 baht and we had dinner at this average place and ended up forking out more money than our accomodation costs per night!! What a rip off. The place does have some nice scenery and we were lucky enough to visit Phranang Cave (the first picture, above left) before the hordes of day tripping noisy tourists arrived by speedboat... Thailand loses a lot of its atmosphere when tourists are flocking anything remotely interesting. Especially many of the Europeans who don't seem to have any other clothes but speedo's and G-strings..
To the left is a picture from our trip to "James Bond Island." We did a 
day tour and saw some interesting stuff including a floating village, lots of limestone karsts and oh yeah, lots of 95.6% naked tourists. Just look at this girl walking around in her G-string shopping at the overpriced souvenir stalls. James Bond island would of been cool if there wasn't a thousand tourists running around and a ridiculous amount of souvenir stalls all hawking the same overpriced junk you could buy elsewhere for 1/10 the price..
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Overall, our trip to Railay was okay and the James Bond tour kept us entertained (the floating village was cool, see pictures, left) but yesterday we caught a boat to Kata Beach, Phuket and we are much happier. The food is cheaper, accomodation is awesome!!! We scored an excellent deal at Kata Inn as we have air condition, a TV, fridge, fresh sheets & towel and a very clean brand new bathroom. All this for 800 baht but we negotiated a longer stay and got the rate dropped to 700 baht per night. We didn't have reservations so we lucked out as we just stumbled across it. 
Tomorrow we start our PADI Open Water Dive course. Wish us luck!
-Uriah & Derek
4 comments:
Good luck! Be careful with the sea critters. :D
Derek,
Thanks, I will do everything in my power to not die.
Hey, when we were at James Bond Island there were no naked europeans, definately no g-string chicks. You guys are lucky huh. Maybe because we went in the low season. too cold for G-string (cold = less than 30C)! Good luck with the diving, remember if you're at the back of the boat, and see a fish that looks like a mars bar with toilet paper clinging to it, dont touch it! hahaha. - Denise.
Denise, I wish I read that earlier!! I caught one and its sitting in a fish tank in our room now!! Give your boy a big kiss from Uriah... She hasn't done the mandatory cheek pinching yet.
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