Krabi, Thailand
Monday, September 11, 2006 at 07:34AM Well we spent a few days knocking about Bangkok with mom and then we jumped on a bus and headed south to Krabi, Thailand. It was over a 12 hour journey and our mom the trooper just rolled right along with the punches. We are just outside of Krabi town on a beach called Ao Nang...cute little place. Yesterday we took a longtail boat over to Railay Beach had some lunch and then walked to the cave. One of the rocks on Railay Beach resembles a penis, so the belief is that if you go into the cave and pray or perhaps just float in the water too long it is supposed to help with fertility. So if mom comes home with a bun in the oven you all know what happened. Ha! It was a beautiful place...nice white sand and crystal blue waters. We think we will be back here at Christmas time, so we stopped in a few resorts to see their prices at that time. This one place we looked at, you get your own hydro pool and a yard. It was gorgeous and would set us back a mere $1600/night over the Christmas period. Needless to say we did not book a room.
This morning, we woke up, had some breakfast (for some reason they never seem to want to bring my toast...this is the 2nd morning in a row) and then we headed out about 20 minutes outside of town and went elephant trekking. Mom and Deb rode a giant male elephant named Pep and I was alone on a female elephant...I can't remember her name in Thai...I think it was Mali, in English Gardenia. It was pretty cool sitting on top of an elephant walking through the jungle. Highly recommend it. After the hike we fed the elephants some bananas. Gardenia was a little pig. You could barely break a banana off and she was up there with her trunk sniffing around. I honestly think feeding them was my favourite part. It was like being surrounded by giant snakes all reaching out towards you. Deb got to sit on her elephants head for a while and ride around that way.
Tomorrow we are going on an island tour in the morning and then we will go to Ko Phi Phi for a few days rest.
Oh and for those of you that know mom...guess what? She bought a ring. It is beautiful. Designed and made here in Ao Nang. Never seen anything like it before....really beautiful.
Reader Comments (2)
Heyyy Christine!!!
it seems that you are having an amazing time, and we are all very happy for you.. Marc and I both loved our gifts. thank you so much for them..I wore my purse as soon as i got it and i got three compliments .. one lady even asked where i had got it from, saying that she had never seen a purse like it!! Marc really likes his shirt he thinks it is really cool, and he wants to say thank you too. Mom and dad say hi,, dad says to bring some spicy food home. We all hope you're having fun, and we miss you.
Marc has a little favour to ask of you too... Hi Christine its Marc, I was wondering if you could pick up a game for me if you happen to pass by it. Its a game my teacher said was only sold in Asia and consits of six little pigs that come in one big pig container that is sold at corner stors. the game is some what like jacks but more fun in my opinion. so if you happen to find one i would be very happy if you picked it up. I hope you have lots of fun on the rest of your trip.
Love Marc,Laura,mom and dad
Marcus,
I would gladly get this for you...but can you get more info from your teacher. No one in Thailand has heard of it. What part of Asia is it sold in?
Christine