Phi Phi Island

At Carlito's Bar

The wet suits were Korean size, ok?!

Maya bay, aka The Beach

The beach we became bronzed goddesses on

Near the port in Phi Phi

Just off of Krabi there are a few islands, one of them called Phi Phi Don, and all of them were damaged by the tsunami in 2004, but back on their way to recovery now! We decided to pay Phi Phi a visit as is it much hyped about and we weren't disappointed! We did a test run as the boat only runs once a day and we needed to find some accomodation for when we decided to actually stay there, and this was a trip in itself! We were expecting the usual ferry but oh no... we get to the port and there's no ferry in sight, well except for the one we can barely see on the horizon..and we're rushed on to a 'longtail boat', which is thai speak for wooden box with a motor. Add about 10 more people into this tiny space and all their baggage and we were good to go. 5 harrowing minutes later and after being splashed around a bit we get to the ferry in mid water, and have to tenatively jump from one boat to the other, forget the safety of a rope keeping the boats together, we're in Thailand! 24hours later and we did the journey again, not so bad this time, and we were ready to move there! Phi Phi island is pretty beautiful and very small so there are no cars and is a nice place to spend a day or 3 on the beach like we did! We even did some more diving which was great! We were taken to Phi Phi Ley, a smaller island where they filmed 'The Beach' and we did 2 dives off there and it was brilliant! We hadn't done any diving since Corsica last Summer so we were a bit nervous and did a few skills before we swam about, but it was good because it was only us two and our English guide, Andy. We saw all kinds of fish like Nemo, a barracuda, a giant clam, eels, weird spiky fish and pufferfish! Plus it was cool seeing where they filmed the film, except we doubt that Leo diCaprio stayed in our hotel with salt water for a shower! Hmph!