01 September 2013

We did a day trip from Aonang to the Phi Phi islands. A surprisingly short trip from Aonang on the speedboat, we were spoilt with great weather and beautiful scenery, as promised on the brochures.

The tour took us to all the major tourist spots around the Phi Phi islands and included lots of swimming, snorkelling and beach time as we’d hoped.  Unfortunately and unavoidably we also had to contend with many tourists piled onto many boats and crowding the viewpoints.  Expect this, in even greater numbers during the high season.

The spots where we explored were Maya bay (‘The Beach’ movie location), Pileh bay; Monkey beach and Viking cave on Phi Phi Leh; Tonsai beach on Phi Phi Don; 2 very nice snorkelling spots and the last stop at Bamboo Island before returning to Krabi. All locations provided many exquisite photo opportunities and a chance to take a dip to cool off.

The beautiful sunny day ended with a 30 minute thunderstorm that came out of nowhere, drenched everybody in the speedboat, caused an embarrassed passenger to be sick overboard and then, magically disappeared. The joys of travelling in the rainy season in Thailand. Definitely not enough to dampen our spirits after a fantastic day tour though.