Koh Phi Phi

We had a two night stay on Koh Phi Phi.  We arrived at 1pm so we checked into our guest house and then went to the beach.  The tide was waaaaay out and we had to walk across a lot of sand to get to the water. Then we had to walk a long way out to reach deep water. It was really weird how shallow the water was.  Suited the Asians though who were wearing life jackets in water up to their knees!

On our last day we booked ourselves onto a boat trip encompassing snorkelling and visitng Islands and swimming with glow plankton in the evening.  

Our first stop was monkey island and a monkey literally grabbed the water bottle from the guy standing in front of me, ripped the cap off with its teeth and then began skulling back the water! I was aware that they are wild animals and carry diseases so I wasn't keen to get close, but some girls were picking up the babies, and some bigger monkeys were climbing up on people trying to run off with items like scarves and especially food and drink.

We then went snorkelling which was cool.  The boat driver threw some chicken in right where I was snorkelling and then next thing there is a fish frenzy right in front of me! Our next stop was Maya Bay (where the beach was filmed). Here we had time to swim and sun bathe.  The last stop was a slow cruise back to harbour as we watched the sunset and then waited for it to get dark enough to see the plankton.  Unfortunately it was impossible to get a good photo of the plankton. 

This morning we made the short journey across to Koh Lanta.  We will stay here two or three nights.  Currently we are finalising our itinerary as we might cut some Thai Islands in a bid to get to the Perhentian Islands in Malaysia.