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Thailand 🇹🇭 Part 3 ’24

December 2024 - January 2025
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  • JG TRAVELSJG TRAVELSThailand 🇹🇭 Part 3 ’24

    10. Khao Sok - Khao Lak

    December 13, 2024 in Thailand ⋅ 🌧 27 °C

    Today we woke up to torrential rain, the smells coming from the surrounding jungle was so strong. We packed up and had a transfer collect us to take us on the short drive to Khao Lak. Our driver was literally the worst yet and we were questioning if we would make it at stages... We were dropped off in a big downpour so jumped in a taxi straight onto our hotel. Once settled up in our hotel and after doing some washing we headed down to the beach for an explore and then stopped at a local restaurant and stopped by the sea front for a drink and the best mango sticky rice.
    Khao Lak is famous for being a jungle seafront area. It is also known for being the worst hit area when the tsunami hit back in 2004. 4000 people died here out of the 5000 in Thailand. If you have seen the film The Impossibles its based here. We are pleased to say that they have an early warning system in place now and we have checked out where we would need to go as our accommodation is as beachfront as it gets, we fall asleep listening to the sea. We have learnt that 2004 was a freak disaster though and had probably been coming for a few hundred years. There is still evidence of tsunami to this day, still many derelict building / structures left to ruin.    Read more

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    11. Khao Lak

    December 14, 2024 in Thailand ⋅ 🌧 28 °C

    After a lie in, we headed to a local restaurant for some lunch. Afterwards we hired a moped for the first time, we have a 125 honda which has only done 200km. We drove to a place called Coconut beach and had a nice milkshake, after that we headed down to Memories beach which is Thailands famous surfing beach. To our suprise we saw some people actually catch some waves, despite them being tiny. We may head back here tomorrow and have a go. We had a beer in the bar before driving back, enroute Grace spotted an elephant which was awesome! We stopped at the Ripcurl outlet and it was a thai surfboard factory which you could see around, this was so cool seeing where boards are mass produced. We also stopped to see the Tsunami boat which made it over 2 km into shore when Tsunami hit, they have left boat in memorial of what happened. It was mad to think that this was brought here by the sea. We went to a great but touristy night market and had a cocktails with some dinner (Grace braved seafood finally) before heading back to our accommodation.Read more

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    12. Khao Lak

    December 15, 2024 in Thailand ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

    Had another really late night last night, so we slowly woke up and had some coffee before heading to the restaurant for some food. We arent quite in the time zone yet.. 😂
    Trying to be sunny today, which is an improvement.
    As the waves appeared quite good yesterday for surfing, we hopped on our little moped and headed to the Khao Lak Lighthouse beach. Typically as soon as we got there and found a nice spot, it started to rain. Still didn't stop James from having a nice surf in the sea for a while.
    The weather had started to improve a little, so we stayed on the beach untilll sunset, which was really special to watch.
    Once the sun went down, we headed back to our room for a freshen up. We headed to the local restaurant and had a lovely Thai red curry for dinner. As always deliciously cooked.    Read more

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    13. Khao Lak

    December 16, 2024 in Thailand ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

    We went for some delicious brunch at the local restaurant before heading back to the Ripcurl Memories beach for some surf and sun, we took a very scenic off road route from our hotel to the beach, we went past the hotel which was used in the film " The Impossibles", which was cool to see. When we arrived at the beach we stopped for a nice smoothie and watched the surfers in the sun. James rented a board and went for a surf, he was chuffed as he caught the best wave he has ever had so far.
    We stayed at the bar watching the sun go down, it was the best sunset yet... Thailand is so beautiful! Enroute back to our hotel we both fancied pizza so stopped at this cool place called "Mario's". The pizza was very tasty as it was cooked in a wood fire oven.
    Back to base to pack as we are heading to Koh Phi Phi early tomorrow!    Read more

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    14. Khao Lak - Koh Phi Phi

    December 17, 2024 in Thailand ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

    Leaving Koh Lak today, we booked a taxi to our pick up point before transferring into a van which drove all around Thailand before dropping us at the ferry port. It was supposed to be a 4 hour transfer, 6 hours later we get to ferry port before another 2 hours boat trip.. This was a shame as eating into our time at Phi Phi, but luckily me and Grace are one of the first to board. We ran upstairs to the sun deck as its always so relaxing looking out over the sea whilst we cruise slowly to our next stop. After we sailed into the beautiful bay and fought our way through 100s of people we found our guide who put us onto another boat, as it was low tide we had to walk with our luggage through the sea to our transfer boat. This was an adventure in itself with the laptop on my back, once we were boarded we sailed around the island, for the next 2 days we are staying on a quiet corner of the island. Its the most paradise Thailand can offer but also the most commercially tourist driven place also so was nice to be away from all the clubby beach bars on the main strip. We then transferred onto a moped with a little side car, this took us to our resort.
    Our accommodation was nice so we settled in and then we headed out of town to a really recommended restaurant which was ran by a lady called Naan, the reviews said as a walk away from the shops no one visits. Wow this was the best food so far in Thailand, flavours were literally insane. After dinner we booked a private boat 4 hour tour for tomorrow £55 it was cheaper than doing an organised tour but shorter day. We can also choose where we spend our time. We are both so excited for this. Maya Bay is so far the most paradise we have ever found. We have an option tomorrow to visit the beach but its an extra £20 on top so we will see how busy it is tomorrow before deciding. Early night ready for tomorrows day out. Koh Phi Phi    Read more

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    15. Koh Phi Phi

    December 18, 2024 in Thailand ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C

    Weather looks really promising today, hopefully a day of sun after nearly two weeks 😂.
    We were up early, out of our room and covered in sun cream by 845 this morning! We are off on a private boat tour around Phi Phi Leh.
    After a quick lift down the dirt track on the moped cart, we hopped onto our long boat for the morning.
    The first stop was at Maya beach ( the beach in the famous film, "The Beach"), it was so beautiful but so crowded with tourists. We did have the option of walking onto the beach for an additional 20 quid, but it just looked like chaos! So we decided to jump into the sea for a snorkel instead.
    We saw so many colorful fish, including : rainbow fish, angel fish, sharks, puffa fish and the infamous trigger fish.
    Back onto the boat to head to our next stop, Pileh bay, just around the other side of the island. Before we got into the bay we stopped and snorkeled for a good while too, James even managed to spot about 8 young baby sharks!
    Our next stop was viking cave, before crossing the big bay and stopping for one last snorkel at Monkey Bay. As you know we don't like monkeys, so we had a snorkel and enjoyed a section of the beach with no monkeys, it was so nice here with the trees overhanging the sea.
    After such a fun morning, we grabbed some lunch and a very cold beer before sitting on one of the local beaches for a while. We then went back to our room to pack and get sorted for our move tomorrow to the other side of the island.
    We both had such an amazing time today, but all the snorkeling in the sea with the sun has meant we have got a bit sunburnt on our backs- good job we remembered the after sun ☀️ typical brits, first bit of sun 😂.    Read more

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    15. Koh Phi Phi Photos

    December 18, 2024 in Thailand ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
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    16. Koh Phi Phi

    December 19, 2024 in Thailand ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C

    This morning we got back into our little trike and headed back to transfer to the main strip, we were unable to book any more nights with this hotel ,which is a shame. We managed to find a bargain bungalow to move to. We have sunburnt backs so wasn't great carrying best part of 15kg on it, so we walked opposite direction to the bungalow to take advantage of the free shuttle from the pier. This took much longer than planned but eventually we got to our bungalow. Best accommodation yet, nearly £100 off still over our budget but we have put that aside as during peak season bare minimum cost has been £25 a night. This bungalow is £40 a night, Phi Phi is expensive but we couldnt move on just yet.
    We chilled at our cabin overlooking the bay for a few hours keeping out of the scorching sunshine with the sunburn. About 4 we headed down to the beach and had some drinks before finding a nice little restaurant (we remembered from last time) to have some tea, we had a different curry which we haven't tried tonight, called a " chilli cream", it was so tasty and not too spicy.
    Afterwards, we headed to the beach to watch a cool fire show, this was awesome, although we nearly got covered in bits of burning embers. After a while of listening to like 5 different tunes in one go, (all the beach bars are next to eachother all playing different tunes)we decided to head back to our cosy bungalow for the night.    Read more

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    17. Koh Phi Phi

    December 20, 2024 in Thailand ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C

    Today we woke up to scorching sunshine again, we headed down for breakfast at our hotel, it was really tasty! We like this accommodation. We were excited today as we were renting a kayak and heading to Nui bay to go snorkelling. We had abit of a walk around the town before finding the newest looking Kayak to rent, there were 2 beaches to choose from and we decided to paddle to the furthest one as thats where the better snorkelling is. After a long but scenic paddle we arrived at the bay, it was so nice here so we stayed for the most of the afternoon. The snorkeling was good here aswell, we saw 2 big puffa fish, Moray Eel, trigger fish and our favourite rainbow ones. We watched some British lads attempting to fish with a make shift rod they had made which was hilarious. Afterwards we paddled back, slower this time though and grabbed a drink from the bar. We headed back to our cabin before booking our onwards travel tomorrow we had a lovely fresh fish and chips and a couple of drinks at the beachfront. An amazing day!Read more

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    18. Koh Phi Phi - Ao Nang

    December 21, 2024 in Thailand ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C

    Today we packed up ready to head onto Ao Nang, it was a short 2 hour ferry and 30 minute transfer. Our ferry was at 3 so we had most of the day on Phi Phi, so had a leisurely breakfast and sat on some deck chairs in the shade by the sea for the day. We had some fresh smoothies and it was super relaxing, we didnt want to leave.
    Luckily our hotel had offered to meet us with our big backpacks by the pier, this made us both anxious whether they would turn up and we would miss our ferry. However all good and we made it onto the ferry in good time. A leisurely cruise across Pha-ngan bay and into Krabi. We have booked 2 nights here to get ready to head onto Koh Tao. We stayed here previously and had seen most of the sites so just a quick stopover, we were both very tired from sitting around all day so had a Indian curry which was great and an early night ready for tomorrow.    Read more

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