We have just left Krabi and on the bus to Koh Samui, where we will be meeting my sister and Alex!
We stayed at the hostel “Pak Up”, and it was so nice. Every night you could get 2 free BBQ skewers, the rooms were nicely air conditioned with comfy beds and huge lockers, there was a small rooftop gym and to top it off it was super cheap. There was a food market that was on every night just down the road from us by the water, so a couple nights we had ate there and had some good food, like this homemade coconut icecream from this little old lady.
On our second day there we took a boat to Railay, a small town about a 45 minute boat away which is only accessible by boat. We were optimistic that we could have a relatively sunny beach day, but as we were waiting for the boat of course it had to chuck it down with rain; however luckily there wasnt anymore that day. Railay was really nice, we stayed on the beach the most of the day even though it was cloudy. The waves were a lot smaller than the other places in Thailand we had been, and the beach was relatively clean. For lunch I finally tried pineapple fried rice, which tasted delicious even though it was a mountain of food!
The rest of the days we decided to chill and save some money, so we mostly went to a few cafes and relaxed. One night everyone in our dorm room went out to eat together, and it was so interesting listening to peoples stories – for example this one guy is now a teacher in Thailand, and was telling us all about how he does spoken word poetry and was a world champion one year. Even though we didn’t do particularly much with our time in Krabi, we did pick a good time to go. This is because we got to go go the weekend market a few nights, which had so many different types of food, drinks, souvenirs and clothes. I had spring rolls, octopus skewers and mango sticky rice – all delicious! We were also there for some type of art festival, which I believe was to celebrate 147 years since Krabi was found as a city. We didn’t get to see too much of it as it was shutting by the time we got there, but we did see a wall where anyone could paint what they wanted which was so cool.
We could’ve done a lot more with Krabi, but as I said, we chose to save some money and also the weather limited us a bit. I don’t mind too much though, as I’m currently on the bus excited to be seeing some family!
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