Phi Phi Islands (The Beach)

2007-05-27T00:28:00.000-07:00

So, after saying goodbye to paradise after 4 days, Jenny and me got up early in the morning and jumped on a boat back to mainland and back to reality. We hooked up with two other English girls, and took a taxi to the nearest city where we could get a bus to the Thai boarder. I really have to say that the one thing I hate about traveling is moving from A to B. All the stress with packing up your stuff, running to reach the bus, and the stress about not knowing if the bus you manage to reach is the right bus at all. So I was more then delighted to meet these three girls that had it all planned out.

Getting to Thailand is text book story on hard sweet and tears. After getting on the buss that had for once too little air condition, we reached the boarder and a new town and got to the train that had something that is popularly called hard seats by backpackers. And a backpacker is a person that is very common to living hard. So why then calling something “hard” when hard is your normal life on the road. The answer? Easy, these seats are redefining hard to a level that you have never experiences before. 5 hours on a wood seat would normally not make me get any lasting wounds. This one did. The wood taste after sitting on a normal train in Thailand is fierce.

Well, we eventually got to the Phi Phi Island, the upper class Island famous for being the place to get to the Beach Beach (as its called down here, the place they filmed The Beach with Leonardo DiCaprio), the island that was totally destroyed after the Tsunami. You could still see some houses that are destroyed and not rebuild, but it’s impressive to see how fast they have constructed much of the island back to tourist standard. But it’s more expensive that my taste, and for example to get to the Beach Beach, you have to pay up about 1200 Bath (200 nok/35$) which I didn’t, so sorry if I had your hope set up to see some pic’s from there. Will try to get some of the other girls that were there though. This is I OK place to go, but nothing that gives me the trill to go back there.

The issue is that if you go here 5 days before the full moon party, or 5 days after, this place is much quit and no young people. And we where there 2 days before, so go figure… But people say that normally this is the place top hook up with a lot of Swedish people and party the whole day long. So after 2 days, we left, for Full moon party. Finally!!!!

The Phi Phi Island (the Beach)

Phi Phi Islands (The Beach)