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Krabi is ok. The visa run was pretty simple so we were lucky to catch the 930pm bus...or so we thought. What we didn't realize was how close Krabi was. So here we are at 2 am and the only ones to get off of the bus with just one Tuk Tuk driver ready for business.(We've learnt to figure out how much a typical lift should be before hand so we can barter with the drivers and not over pay! Our book said between 20 to 30 baht per person to Krabi town so we knew the max we'd pay is 50.) He looks at two tired girls, then at our bags and says 200 baht each! We both laugh and say no way, how about 100 total! He looks kinda shocked, pulls out a map and shows us like it's far away, but we know its not so he lowers the price to 90 each. We say no way again and he tisks and walks away, comes back and says 70. At this point we have no room reservation so it's we either sit on the side walk here , or the sidewalk in front of the guesthouse. So we say no and take a seat. He then gets in his Tuk Tuk and starts to drive away slowly in hopes we'll get up and chase after him but since we don't he drives ahead only a few feet and stops for about 5 mins then slowly backs the Tuk Tuk up to us and says ok, 50 baht each, get in. It was pretty funny.
So we get to the place where we want to stay and it looks like its all locked up, except it isn't actually locked so we wander into the lobby and notice a sign that says its a self serve joint and that you can go take a look at the rooms and if you want to stay you go pick up a key across street, which of course is all locked up too so we go back and thankfully there are two chairs, tv and DVDs so we pull an all nighter' and watch anchorman and old school until the sun comes up and were able to check in. Tired and not wanting to do much we just walk around town, Cy gets her bites looked at and gets on some antibiotics and hit the hay after being up for almost 48 hrs.
Yesterday we took a day tour to 4 different islands - Poda, Tup, Princess cave and Chicken island. It was ok, over crowded of course but we did do some good snorkeling and got some sun.
Time to blow this popsicle stand and try out the beach in Phuket.
C&K
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s What bites? Are you alright my love?? Antibiotics??? :S CYNTHIAAA!!! Im sending you several healing kisses. I sure hope you are a - okay. I hope your time here gets better, that sounds pretty nifty noodle that you can go into the hotel and have your own selection. what was princess cave like? were there princess mermaids? K LOVe xox
sooo So I read this blog first, and it left me feeling concerned for my cynthia, and then I looked at some wicked awsome pictures only to find that cynthia was not in any of them. So now I find myself a bit more concerned . . unconcern me please xx