Phi Phi islands and onwards to Bangkok!

so..we left Laos with sad and heavy hearts..our home away from home...but it was time to get some of Thailand in before we came home..and so began the mammoth 32 hr journey or something stupid like that, involved buses times many and tuk tuks, and border crossings and waiting around and crap road side food, and taxis and a race to the other bus station to get the other 11hr bus to Krabi only to miss the ferry and spend the night there, where against my good judgement i ate KFC...it's all Cons fault :D

so dave, nici and I stayed overnight in the klassiest of hotels and after such a long journey showered and slept like logs, for an early start to another day of travelling by ferry to Phi Phi Island or as I like to call it the island of never ending weeeees.

the journey lasted just under 2hrs and we came to the glorious sunshine island, full of tourists of all shapes and sizes..we had a bit of a challange carrying our 24kg bags around the island looking for CHEAP accomodation in high season but stumbled upon a modest little place across the swampy river...hhmm fresh air smells...what a way to wake up...after applying some sun cream it was of to the beach for some extreme frisbee better known as playing with Dave that boy sure does have a strong arm..

we worked on our tans, ate ice lollies, also called ice pops! dave, and chilled out enjoying the beautiful views...i still cant and couldnt get my head around what happened there on boxing day in 04, the island was up and running still some construction work but more or less you'd never have known cept for the tsuami warning signs and where to run all over the island..yes i spelt it wrong im up since 05.30am leave me alone...

anyway...we ate dinner and headed to the beach for a full moon party which wasnt much of a party since everyone was on another island where the major full moon party happens, our island was pretty dead, but we knew we'd need to get there then to get cheap accomodation and since we were running out of time...

we drank many buckets and got drunk and stumbled home..not much of a hangover the next day which was good because we'd planned a day trip around some of the islands, including monkey island, WAIT until you see the photos rachel and ciara! cliff jumping, i chickened out and its one of my regrets from this trip and basically a day snorkelling, swimming jumping of the long boat and visiting the island where they filmed the beach

we spent the next few days on the island, swimming, sunbathing i wandered around alot on my own, getting lost and going for walks..saw alot of fire swinging, and fire rope jumping etc, drank alot of buckets especially the last night, saw some real thai boxing including lots of drunk people who fought each other for free drinks and ate some good food...very relaxing and hot way to end the trip

we had a sad goodbye to Dave and Chris our Chilean friend, the prick :D and start the long and slow journey back to Bangkok where the bus us was empty and we all had two seats to ourselves each..result.that NEVER happens!!!

we arrived here at 05.30am, found a place to stay until we check out and now have two days of shopping in bangkok to do before we fly home..

so one last sad blog and the trip is over...where did the time go!?

stay tuned!
C