Friday
30th October
Krabi
A
day of adventure. We booked ourselves a Thai Jungle Tour last night
but due to translation difficulties we didn't really know the full
itinerary or details until the day began. We were booked for an
8:30am pick up and so our hotel delivered us by speedboat to the
pickup point at Ao-Nang the bay next door. We presumed that we would
be on a group tour but were very presently surprised to be met by a
late model Toyota 4x4 for the day. Picked up our guide and we were
off. Just the two of us, feeling very special.
First
stop an Elephant trek through the Jungle. Great fun to be up close
and personal with such a magnificent pachyderm. Mahoot Nic made a
very quick connection with Elsa the Elephant and soon took over the
reins when our original chauffeur became our camera man. We tipped
Elsa with two bunches of bananas then it was off to the Emerald pool
named for the beautiful coloured water. We swam and wandered through
the jungle for an hour to another warm blue pool (aptly named) then
had a lovely Thai lunch.
The
next stop was a remarkable hot springs with the rock pools made
smooth from the copper in the water. Nature at it's best.
Our
final stop was the underwhelming Tiger Cave Temple. Evidently it's
quite a special place to the locals and once did contain a tiger but
this most famous temple in Krabi province was not for us. There were
lots of fun monkeys around, so not a total waste of time!
We
decided to wander through the town of Ao-Nang on the way home and
this led us to walk the 100 metre Thai Massage Gauntlet – it's a
marathon of massage beds and locals waiting to offer their services.
We had already booked two massages at the hotel so we had to the
response of 'no thanks' on continuous replay.
On
arrival back at the hotel we had a late dinner and then off to bed.
We keep going back to the same restaurant, because it's so good and
so cheap... just like us!
