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DAY 1:
After a two-hour plane ride from Chiang Mai, a half-hour bus ride to downtown Krabi, and a 10-minute luggage drag from the bus terminal, we finally reached Pak-Up Hostel! If you're looking for budget accommodation, definitely check out Pak-Up! It's at a great location, has spacious rooms, clean areas, good showers, it just overall great and I enjoyed my stay there and will definitely come back.
We reached the hostel at a slightly odd timing, too late to travel anywhere, too early to pass out, so we just took a nap and went down to the food market street to grab dinner. We wanted to head up to the bar, but it was closed, so we decided to just take an early night.
DAY 2:
We headed out of our hostel and took a songthaew down to Ao Nang. The drive down was a lot longer than we expected, but it was pretty cool, and there were huge mountains and cliff type things all over. We reached Ao Nang and got brunch at an incredibly plain and touristy restaurant. It was alright, but the star was our iced chocolate milkshakes and coffee, which was pretty good and I would do many things to have it right now.
After lunch, we headed out to look for travel agencies to book our activities for Krabi. We ended up (harassing) joking around with this guy and managed to reduce our package prices to half! We booked a white water rafting and ATV package, and a 4 island tour.
After we booked our activities, we went on our search for a good spot at the beach. A very kind lady offered to lend us her stall's beach mat for free, which was really lovely of her. We walked all the way in to the edge of Ao Nang beach, and settled ourselves under a tree. It was insanely hot, so we just ended up taking a nap and chilling to music by the beach. By the time it wasn't so painfully scorching, it was low-tide and the water has almost completely left the beach.
We headed off to walk around Ao Nang to look for a good place to have dinner, but the restaurants around the place were more expensive since the place was more tourist. We ended up at this empty plain place with alright food. Then we walked around and bought our beach mat, then headed back to our hostel.
The bar was finally open that day, so we headed up and got ourselves some drinks (partayyyyyyyyyy). We ended up meeting this guy who was also staying in our room and ended up chatting with him for a couple of hours, which was really cool. He was the first person we've had a long chat with since we went on our trip, and it was nice to get to know people. We ended up going back to our room really late, like after the bar closed and turned off all the lights.
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DAY 5:
We got up fairly early to get ready for our adventures of the day! We got picked up by a pretty fancy air-conditioned van, which was a lovely change from all the rough busses and songthaews we've been taking, especially considering the drive to the location was at least an hour and a half. We ended up somewhere in Phuket and got ready to head out for our first activity.
We started with a 5-kilometer white water rafting session, where Lellel and I happened to join this hilarious group of Singaporeans. We were quite disappointed when we learned that we weren't paddling, but it turned out to be a good thing. There was no way any of us could paddle successfully because the current was too strong! It was the complete opposite of the rafting we experienced in Chiang Mai. We were bouncing up and down on our rafts, from the white water drops and waves, and not from getting stuck over a rock. We also had this super cool guy as el kapitan and who did flips and tricks with his paddle. The whole ride was just super enjoyable and made me wish we went on a longer course.
After water rafting, we had a buffet lunch, where as you could see, I got a bit carried away. You need to make the best out of your money, amirite? The group we were with had a waterfall trek with their package, and even though it wasn't part of ours, the lady in charge told us to go on ahead anyway instead of making us wait. So we took a songthaew down to the base, and went on a short trek to the waterfall. It wasn't as beautiful as the one we went to in Chiang Mai, but it was definitely as cold! We didn't bring proper swimwear, so we just chilled by the waterfall and didn't go in.
After the trek, Lellel and I got driven to the base of the ATV area. The briefing was quite scary, because they kept emphasizing on how much we have to pay in case we ruin any part of the ATV. Besides that, and the scorching direct heat, it was pretty fun! It was an ATV tour around the place, and I think we went around the hills/fields for about an hour. It was pretty fun, if you forget aobut the part where we got at least five shades tanner and possibly got sunburnt. When it was time to leave, we got on the back of the boys driving ATVs to get to our van and I swear on my future dog's life, I thought I was legitimately going to die. He went so fast and I literally had nothing to hold on to, and he had to go down a really steep slope and he did really fast turn, I still cringe whenever I think about it and it still scares me.
We got on the van and thought we were heading back to our hostel, but we actually headed up to the Monkey Caves. It was another place that the other group had paid for, but wasn't actually part of our package. It was like a temple within a cave, and there was this one monkey who just didn't give a single fuck. We didn't really do much around there and just waited around 'til we had to head back home.
When we got back, we just washed up and headed out to have dinner at the food market street again. Then we headed back up to the Top-Up Bar where we just chilled and talked and listened to drunk white people sing.
DAY 4:
We were pretty exhausted from the previous day's activities, so we decided to take a bit of a rest day and sleep in. I can't remember much about this day except for the fact that we had a really late breakfast/lunch at this place near our hostel, and the only reason we decided to eat there was because they had free wifi. We then went back to the hostel to take a nap, then headed out to explore more of the town. We sneaked into what looked like an abandoned building with incredibly creepy grafitti on the walls. It looked like there had been people sleeping there, which only made things creepier.
We then went to check out the Krabi Town Night Market. We thought it would be like Chiang Mai's night bazaar, but it was actually a night market. There were a couple of eateries, but it was mostly selling ingredients for cooking and a whole lot of fruit. Since we couldn't get anything to eat from there, we went on the explore more of the place and decided to have dinner at this place that turned out to have our favourite fried rice! The food was really good and it was fairly cheap, and even though they didn't have wifi, we went back to the place a couple more times during the trip.
After dinner, we then walked around the place some more and once again ended up drinking at Top-Up Bar.
DAY 5:
We had to get up early on this day, as we had a Four Island Tour booked. We took a songthaew along with other people who were staying in Krabi and drove down to Ao Nang where we got on long-tail boats that would drive us to the four islands. Now I'm telling you, Thailand beaches and waters are gorgeous. I love the different shades of blue, how clear the water is, I just love everything about it! I remember our first stop was at Chicken Island, which is apparently appropriately named as it is in the shape of a chicken. There was definitely a ton of people in the place and there were just a swarm of boats lined across the shore. The beach was so good, that the insane amount of people didn't even deter me from liking this place!
After island-hopping, we stopped at this one island so we can have lunch. I can't remember much about the other islands, except for the final stop, which was Railey beach. The water wasn't as clear as it was in the other islands, but it was still pretty cool. It reminded us of a paddlepop. Yes, the ice cream. This turned out to be our favourite island among all four, despite it being the paddlepop that it was, simply because it was actually deep enough where we could swim in it and the water was really cooling. There was also wooden penis sculptures everywhere, which of course us ignorant folks found very amusing. There was also this cave you could swim out to in the corner where you could hide away from the sun.
After the trip, they drove us back down to Ao Nang to get on the songthaews to drive us back to our hostels. When we got back, we showered and checked our social media, and got ready to head out. It was finally the weekend, so we decided to check out the Weekend Night Market. This was finally like the night bazaar in Chiang Mai, but in a much smaller setting. They had numerous street food stalls, clothes shops, and also an art walk. We had our caricatures done by this amazing artist, and we turned out so adorably cute! They also had a stage setting and people were singing and performing and it was really cool.
We weren't too satisfied by the street food we got, so we decided to buy food and drinks from 7-11 and had an al fresco dinner at the porch of our hostel. I have to say, meals from 7-11 ain't too bad! It was even better, not to mention cheaper, than something we would have gotten from the food street. After eating, we went on a bit of a night walk around Krabi, before heading up to Top-Up Bar.
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