Trip to Thailand

Another day, another boat tour! Today I had my last full-day boat tour in the Krabi region.

Today’s trip was focused on the popular Phi Phi islands. The first one we visited was indeed a bit of a tourist trap. I think I counted over 30 boats all docked at the small beach. It’s a gorgeous beach though. Powdery, soft, white sand and beautiful water. It was fun to see this magical place in person.

Speaking of which, we also saw the fabled Maya Bay beach which was used as the location of Leonardo DiCaprio’s search for a hidden paradise in the movie “The Beach”. Since the movie came out almost 20 years ago it has been a very popular tourist attraction. In fact, the tourist activity has left the place so environmentally ruined that it needs time to recover, and is thus closed indefinitely. As such we only saw it from a distance from the boat but it still looked pretty spectacular.

As the other times, the tour company served a nice bbq lunch right on the beach. That’s the 4th day in a row I’ve had lunch in such an awesome setting. I could definitely get used to this! 😀

We didn’t visit as many places today as yesterday, and didn’t do much exploring, but all of the islands and destinations I’ve seen on those three tours have been great.

After returning to the hotel, I watched the sunset from my hotel’s infinity pool - with cheap cocktails of course.

For dinner I decided to throw myself at the big buffet again. As it turns out there is a whole room just for desserts that I somehow entirely missed yesterday, so I had to return to the scene of the crime. Apparently it’s the biggest buffet in the area so it’s lucky that my hotel is hosting it!Read more