We arrived in Koh Phi Phi a few days ago and I’m still not sure how I feel about this place. It has some of the most beautiful beach/views I have ever seen, but once in the water rocks and coral cut your feet and stub your toes. Not to mention the never ending frat party in the middle of town. Partying seems to be what most people on this island are looking for. Every evening all the shop keepers set up their buckets stands, while all the bars have people passing out flyers advertising their 2 or 3 for 1 buckets. A bucket consists of a sand castle pail, a pint of vodka or whisky, a can of coke, and a red bull… as you can probably guess these things are bad news. A few of these buckets got the better of me the other night and I can assure you it wasn’t Marilyn who puked all over our guest house room. I had been warned about these buckets by friends who had been to this region before, but what can I say guess I just had to learn the hard way.
Now after a day of recovery, Rob and I decided to go do a little exploring around the island this morning. We hiked up to some view points overlooking the town and out over both bays. It was a nice sunny day and made for killer views. The only downside was the liters of sweat pouring off us as we walked. After eventually reaching the highest view point we spotted a little path heading into the jungle. This eventually lead to an amazing unmarked lookout over the ocean. After some major bush whacking we managed to come out at a beach resort on the opposite side of the island. We were very relieved to notice that there was a marked path back to our town. As there are no cars on the island there are path ways every where. These vary from single lane coble stone or cement to single file dirt paths. It makes for fun exploring. We were both pretty cooked after our adventure and figured from the few marked signs that we did see that we coved close to 8 km. We spotted some more paths that we plan to explore in the coming days.
We have been eating a ton of Thai food and I have to say that my new favorite dish is Panang curry. It’s a peanut flavored sauce with a hint of coconut and has a decent amount of spice to it. Next time anyone is looking for their Thai food fix look for this item on leo’s menu.
The other night we had our first room incident. After battling a 3in cockroach in the bathroom we got some tape to seal off the bathroom door while we slept… it apparently wasn’t needed as only a few minutes after going to bed I felt something crawling on me. I managed to knock it off and flicked on the light to see a strange red spider on the floor. Luckily he had met his maker on the fall to the ground. Needless to say we didn’t have most peaceful sleep for the rest of that night. First thing the next morning we found a new guest house which is much nicer for about a 1$ more a night. Can you guess which picture is of the insect petting zoo room…
We have also booked the next leg of our journey. We are flying out of Phuket to Bali on the 16th of this month. I’m getting super excited as Bali comes highly recommended from several friends, and they have surf. Can’t wait to get my surf on without being wrapped head to toe in 6 mm of neoprene.
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