Having left Langkawi, Malaysia early on the 14th we made our way across the border by boat and into Thailand. I had really high hopes for Thailand as I've heard so many good things about the lifestyle, culture and people. We arrived into Hat Yai south Thailand 4hours after leaving Langkawi and as we haven't been booking rooms anywhere we started to wander around, Olly and I both got the feeling we didn't really want to stay here, it was grubby and dull. On top of that we knew there wasn't much to see here but thought we'd check it out anyway. After an hour of wandering in the rain and finding some nice noodles with beef balls we decided to book a bus to Krabi just north of Hat Yai. We got ripped off but were glad to be leaving.
We arrived in Krabi really late that night and had now been travelling most of the day so we dropped our bags and crashed out. We spent 2 full days here, although there are loads of tours the weather was horrible, torrential rain poured down for pretty much 48hours straight (maybe longer but we had left by this point). Thailand has too opposite rainy seasons on the east and the west coast, so you can at least have some dry spells somewhere. It's low season all over the country as the weather is cooler and even if there isn't rain it's very cloudy. Writing this now, a month since we started our Thai adventures (I know i got behind on my blog again) and i can easily say out of the 35 days we have spent here about 10 if that have been sunny without rain or cloud, we like it this way though as there are less tourists, hostels are cheaper and even in the rain it is still 30 degrees.
So that's Krabi... If you keep reading you'll find out that we actually come back here twice more although we have few photos of it due to the rain and the reasons why we returned.
Unfortunately most of southern Thailand is like this if we weren't hindered by rain we were partying like crazy animals and spending the day recovering, I do have some beautiful photo's of Thailand though some of the islands and beaches were just jaw dropping. Looking back I wish that we had come to the north of Thailand for longer as I absolutely love it here. The trekking is amazing, the jungle is just wild and the tiny hippy towns that are scattered all over the north offer welcome retreats from the crazy alcohol fuelled party islands of the south.
Any way here are my photos of Krabi... This is pretty much all of them haha.
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