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TRIP TO PHAN NGA BAY AND KO PHI PHI ISLAND<br />DEC 14-18 2004
SE Asia 2004 (part II)
Alex Mumzhiu2006-03-22 19:08:55
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Ten years ago about this time I visited Thailand for the first time. One thing which impressed me the most was Phang Nga Bay. This bay is full of small islands with vertical walls. One of them is famous James Bond Island, filmed in the movie "The Man With The Golden Gun", see an attachment. Another island, Ko Panyi, is empty inside. It was discovered recently from the airplane. The curvy channel leeds from the outside sea into the laguna of the lost world inside the island. The ceiling of the channel is so low that tourists in kayaks have to lay down on the kayak's floor to get through.
I was in Phang Nga bay on a boat tour from Phuket. It was like most tours, short and rushed, look at left look at right...
But this place impressed me so much that I wanted to come back. I wanted to inspect these strange places in detail on my own and understand how nature created such weird structures.
Ten years ago I was a different person. I did not know how to get there, other than by organized tour. I was not sure how to find public buses to Phang Nga, if they exist? How to find a hotel? What will I do if it is full? Ten years ago I was like many of you my dear readers.
Now, ten years later, armed with all my experience of independent traveling, I decided to investigate Phang Nga and Ko Phi Phi (another similar place nearby) on my own.
I arrived at Bangkok airport from Burma (TN on Burma will be sent later) on the afternoon of Dec 13 and took an overnight bus to the town of Krabi on the shore of Andaman sea. From Krabi I took a boat and arrive at Phi Phi Island about noon of Dec 14. The Phi Phi Island was very popular tourist destination and all places near the shore were taken. I found a room in a small hostel across from the Rock Backpacker Hostel in the Tourist Village located about 500 meters
from the shore.
Next day I took a tour around Koh Phi Phi Don island and nearby Koh Phi Phi Leh Island.
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See photographs from:
Thailand Gallery
