Date: 6th May 2011

Place: Koh Phi Phi - Maya Bay (The Beach)

Weather: sunny but a little bit cloudy

Today was the day we were going to The Beach! We left our bags in the travel shop and head for a hearty breakfast. Whilst there we saw Simon, Neils and Jamie who joined us after dropping their bags off. We had decided that before we head to the beach we would have a beach day…which kind of doesn't make much sense.

We went to a different beach to normal which was actually much nicer. Since we hadn't seen the lads for a few days we had a good catch up and went in the sea for a little bit. When it got to 3pm we head back in land to go to a meeting point for the trip.

There was about 25 people in our group which was a really good size. On the boat ride over to the island we stopped off to snorkel and jumped from the top of the boat into the sea which was such good fun! I actually managed to face my fear and swam through a school of fish which was very, very scary. It got a bit too much though when they literally swarmed me so I got out of there as fast as I could.

When we got to the island where the beach is, which is actually called Phi Phi Lay, we had to swim from the boat to some steps through to a jungle walk. It was literally like being in the film; swimming to the island and then walking through the jungle to find the beach.

It was an absolutely amazing place, but I just couldn't see the film in it. There wasn't a jungle back drop like on the film and it seemed a lot smaller. We all had a bit of an explore before dinner was ready and then we started playing some drinking games. We played ring of fire and the rule is if you pick a king you have to put some of your drink into a middle cup, then the person who finds the last king has to drink it. Well guess who got the last king! I had to drink a bucket of whisky and beer mixed which was not nice!!

For the rest of the night I didn't touch another drink! The guys running the trip were great, they did a fire show for us and we had some music on their big speakers. In the sea there was some plankton that glows just like in the film which looked awesome and Carmen held one in her hand! Eventually I went to sleep in a sleeping bag on the beach. It was such a great day..and night!