Hi!

 

So, we arrived in Koh Phi Phi, after a ferry from Phuket, around lunch time. Whilst Phi Phi is over run with tourists, mainly English twenty-somethings, there are no cars, just lots of small cobbled laneways, so it's very cute. We ended up in a mixed dorm, of 16 beds, with 2 shower/toilets that did not encourage you to feel clean....The next morning, fresh from our snore interrupted sleep with the free bed bugs, we looked a little harder and found ourselves a private room, with private bathroom and unfortunately the bed bugs weren't free, so as with most things that we have to pay for, we passed on them.

 

 

Sadly, our hotel here didn't come with a pool. The 5* hotel down the beach however, did. Perfect. We made ourselves at home in the pool for a couple of afternoons after a long breakfast, before a long dinner.

 

And this was the view from the pool. Not bad for $0 a night!

 

One day we took a coastal walk from the main bit of Phi Phi to a beach called Long Beach (of course) It took us about an hour, up and down some steep slopes, and past some cute little beaches. We spent the day there, eating, reading and sunning, waited 'til nearly sunset and walked back.

 

 

We took a day trip on a longtail boat around the smaller Phi Phi Leh island which is uninhabited.

 

 

The biggest beach, Maya Bay is where 'The Beach' was filmed, so that was the main sight to see and we got dropped off there for about an hour. Just enough time to imagine how great it would have been if Leo was there. At least we were touching the same grains of sand as him.

 

We also saw 'Viking Cave', which is funnily enough, not for Viking's, but where the Thai's gather whatever ingredient it is, that they use to make Bird's Nest Honey, an Asian delicacy.

 

 

We swam in Phileh Cove, which is a very serene, sea lagoon with bright green, clear water.

 

A couple of nights, we also joined the mobs that hedonistically party with their buckets on the beach, reserving no concern for the locals. Some of the time, we semi-soberly people watched, which was more fun than people dodging. No photographic evidence of these nights was taken, sorry!
 

Then it was time to say goodbye to a very chilled time in PhiPhi on yet another ferry...

 

And cross our fingers that our bags make another journey like this, successfully!

 

Lots of Love,

 

Lu & Kate xxx