Thailand Krabi- Part 2

 This place is paradise. I think I need to go back! These are the pictures from our last couple days in Krabi. Our 3rd day we did a 4 island tour by longtail boat. We visited Poda Island, Chicken Island, Tup Island, and Phranang Cave/Island, then had them drop us off at Railay Beach. *disclaimer-this post has a lot of pictures. However I took about 1000 pictures on this trip, so believe it or not, I REALLY cut back on what could have been. ENJOY!

Poda Island

 Next time we go we're signing up for this climbing tour^ you get to climb and then just jump off into the water. Looks pret-tyy sweet.

Chicken Head Island (also my lens was clearly dirty this day..hence the little specks on a lot of the pictures..so sad)

Phranang Cave

The next day we hiked up an insane amount of stairs to what is called "Tiger Temple". Sadly there are no tigers, but there is a really big buddha at the top and we decided that was good enough. 

just a peachy 1237 steps to the top!

The steps were big and super steep. Good workout.

Monkeys. Everywhere.

At the top!

Big Buddha

so many Buddhas

praying to Buddha. I never did, but thought maybe I should have to cover all my bases, ya know?

Also, we got a water camera. The quality doesn't appear to be awesome, but I still kind of like how some of them turned out. It's like the old school, junky cameras. All the below pics are from the water camera. 

we took turns floating back while the other paddled

Thailand-Ao Nong/Krabi Part 1

So this trip was fun. I've wanted to visit Thailand for years and when we found out we were moving to Japan I let Duke know it had to be first on our list of trips. And so he obliged. We arrived on Christmas day and were able to see the tiniest bit of Hong Kong during our 6 hour layover. We visited Ao Nang/Krabi, Chiang Mai and Bangkok. Our definite favorite was the beaches around Krabi & Ao Nang, but Chiang Mai had some cool things too. If we go back, we'd just do the beaches and maybe visit Phuket to mix it up. We planned only 4 days at the beaches and it just wasn't enough!  Also we'd still go during "cool" season, but not peak season-too many people. Without further ado, here are pictures from one of my favorite vacations I've been on.

wild monkeys on the beach! they were pretty cute

lots of cheap and sometimes painful massages- this one duke kept asking "softer" and the lady said "I already go soft for you" and just kept on keeping on. we had to laugh to keep from crying.

hitching a ride on the long tail boats over to Railay beach-one of our fav beaches in the area to go rock climbing

our view for our climb! on East Railay. The place was just so beautiful.

 the pro^

if you look really close towards the bottom you can see people climbing^^ that's where we were!

Railay beach at sunset