Tours to Krabi, or tours for people already staying inwards Krabi, tin live on booked amongst my friends at Easy Day Thailand.
Yes, this is the Phuket Blog, but Krabi is really closed to us ... We had a two nighttime trip to Krabi dorsum inwards Apr as well as I actually wanted to see Railay Beach. I've been inwards Phuket since 1999 as well as somehow never actually checked out Krabi until this year! Well, nosotros never got to Railay inwards April, but nosotros saw plenty of the Krabi surface area to excogitation some other trip, thence nosotros had another two nighttime trip inwards Krabi in July. Railay was really much on my must-see listing despite my married adult woman thinking it would live on only some other beach. And although nosotros exclusively spent a duet of hours checking out Railay beach as well as Phra Nang beach (right adjacent to Railay) nosotros actually similar it as well as nosotros are already thinking of our adjacent Krabi trip as well as volition pass a chip to a greater extent than fourth dimension at Railay. We were staying inwards Krabi Town at the River View Hotel, which is correct adjacent to the river. The pier for longtail boats to Railay Bay (or Ao Nang) was only a few minutes walk from the hotel. And the boats are non expensive - only 150 Baht per soul each way.
(above) We got a longtail boat from the river inwards Krabi Town. The trip to Railay is nigh 12km as well as took nigh thirty minutes on a lovely sunny morning time amongst calm seas. Our boat arrived at a large floating pier at Railay Bay East - non much of a beach here, it's mangroves as well as a chip muddy. West Railay Beach is the house you lot desire to be! We outset bought some bottles of H2O inwards a minimart - everything double the normal cost because everything hither has to live on brought inwards past times longtail boat. Small bottles of H2O - 20 Baht. Note for adjacent fourth dimension - convey some H2O amongst us from town (small bottles of H2O tin live on equally inexpensive equally vii Baht). Jeez, I audio similar a inexpensive backpacker!
(above) Approaching Railay from Krabi Town
(above) Floating Pier at Railay Bay East
The walk from Railay East to Railay West is downwardly a narrow path passing the backside of a duet of hotels as well as restaurants, non that pretty, but arriving at Railay Beach, nosotros were confronted amongst a really spectacular view. Although I had actually wanted to see I was prepared to live on disappointed, equally oftentimes happens amongst really touristy places. But this actually is a beautiful house as well as I mean value it helps that this was depression flavour as well as nosotros arrived past times nigh 10am - you lot tin for sure facial expression to a greater extent than people after inwards the morning time as well as during the afternoon. I wonder if nosotros mightiness rest hither adjacent fourth dimension rather than inwards Krabi town ...
(above) Railay Beach (West). It gets lots of hype, thence I was expecting something less, but it actually is gorgeous. I am non actually a beach person, I don't "go to the beach", but I mean value I could rest inwards a hotel hither for a few nights as well as only bask the scenery, the sand as well as the body of body of water (and a few beers). It was tranquillity when nosotros arrived as well as that for sure helps. There are exclusively a handful of hotels (check hotels at Agoda), many people see from Ao Nang as well as other nearby areas (Krabi Town or fifty-fifty from Phi Phi) during the day. Also at Railay West nosotros saw plenty of supplies beingness unloaded past times manus from longtail boats. Plenty of function goes into that 20 Baht bottle of water!
(above) Unloading supplies at Railay Beach
(above) My man child could run only about at Railay Beach all twenty-four hours I think! We pick out to come upwards hither again. On this trip nosotros had express time, equally nosotros needed to live on dorsum inwards Krabi Town past times nigh midday or 1pm to banking concern fit out of the hotel. From West Railay, to acquire to Phra Nang Beach you lot pick out to walk dorsum to East Railay as well as and then plow correct until you lot honor the path to Phra Nang. Not a long walk, only a few minutes. Heading to Phra Nang Bay you lot walk past times caves as well as stalactites for a duet of hundred meters. There is a sign to a viewpoint that we'll pick out to explore adjacent time.
Phranang Bay is perhaps fifty-fifty to a greater extent than beautiful than Railay, but smaller. It's hemmed inwards past times high cliffs as well as equally you lot tin estimate the exclusively access is past times foot, addition nosotros saw that some tour boats drib people straight hither rather than Railay. It was nigh 11am when nosotros got to Phra Nang as well as it was noticeably busier than Railay West. But anyway. Wow.
(above) Phranang Beach - click photograph to run across a bigger version (opens inwards a novel browser window)
Phra Nang is for sure a house nosotros could rest for a while, convey a picnic, swim a chip ... it's on the listing for adjacent time! There are several points of involvement hither aside from the beach, the body of body of water as well as the views. Right past times the beach you lot tin honor a cave which features an extremely odd shrine. Offerings are made hereto the princess of Phranang cave inwards the flat of lingams. What are lingams? They are phallic symbols resembling the manlike soul organ (ha ha, won't acquire me to country penis here!) The offerings are said to convey skillful luck, wealth as well as fertility to the local people. It seems these beliefs are withal held today, equally in that location are plenty of novel phallic offerings.
(above) Our fille checking out the shrine at Phra Nang Cave
(above) Looking out from a cave at Phra Nang Beach (not the willy cave, it's the adjacent one). There are a few caves hither as well as I saw someone crawling upwards a narrow passage, but where to? Gosh nosotros actually produce demand to come upwards dorsum as well as explore more!
(above) Lots as well as lots of lingams. Yeh, you lot don't acquire this on whatever other tourist beach!
Phra Nang (and Krabi inwards general) is also good known equally a house to acquire stone climbing. Krabi is a skillful house to learn/try climbing, as well as in that location are plenty of cliffs if you lot are an experienced climber. We constitute a charge of climbers adjacent to the beach. Some looked similar novices, others were climbing higher.
(above) Rock climbing at Phranang, Krabi
Our longtail boat driver was waiting for us at East Railay as well as it was already midday past times the fourth dimension nosotros walked dorsum from Phra Nang. I am glad to country this surface area has surprised me. I am sure it tin acquire crowded at times, but there's a lot of natural beauty hither as well as immediately we're planning our tertiary Krabi trip as well as volition pass to a greater extent than than a duet of hours at Railay as well as Phra Nang!
More nigh Krabi
Krabi Hotels (Booking at Agoda.com)
Krabi Tours amongst my friends at Easy Day Thailand
Tiger Cave Temple
Emerald Pool
Our Trip to Krabi inwards Apr 2017
Our trip to Krabi inwards July 2017
Railay Beach as well as Phra Nang Beach - Location Map
Sumber http://jamie-monk.blogspot.com
Yes, this is the Phuket Blog, but Krabi is really closed to us ... We had a two nighttime trip to Krabi dorsum inwards Apr as well as I actually wanted to see Railay Beach. I've been inwards Phuket since 1999 as well as somehow never actually checked out Krabi until this year! Well, nosotros never got to Railay inwards April, but nosotros saw plenty of the Krabi surface area to excogitation some other trip, thence nosotros had another two nighttime trip inwards Krabi in July. Railay was really much on my must-see listing despite my married adult woman thinking it would live on only some other beach. And although nosotros exclusively spent a duet of hours checking out Railay beach as well as Phra Nang beach (right adjacent to Railay) nosotros actually similar it as well as nosotros are already thinking of our adjacent Krabi trip as well as volition pass a chip to a greater extent than fourth dimension at Railay. We were staying inwards Krabi Town at the River View Hotel, which is correct adjacent to the river. The pier for longtail boats to Railay Bay (or Ao Nang) was only a few minutes walk from the hotel. And the boats are non expensive - only 150 Baht per soul each way.
(above) We got a longtail boat from the river inwards Krabi Town. The trip to Railay is nigh 12km as well as took nigh thirty minutes on a lovely sunny morning time amongst calm seas. Our boat arrived at a large floating pier at Railay Bay East - non much of a beach here, it's mangroves as well as a chip muddy. West Railay Beach is the house you lot desire to be! We outset bought some bottles of H2O inwards a minimart - everything double the normal cost because everything hither has to live on brought inwards past times longtail boat. Small bottles of H2O - 20 Baht. Note for adjacent fourth dimension - convey some H2O amongst us from town (small bottles of H2O tin live on equally inexpensive equally vii Baht). Jeez, I audio similar a inexpensive backpacker!
(above) Approaching Railay from Krabi Town
(above) Floating Pier at Railay Bay East
The walk from Railay East to Railay West is downwardly a narrow path passing the backside of a duet of hotels as well as restaurants, non that pretty, but arriving at Railay Beach, nosotros were confronted amongst a really spectacular view. Although I had actually wanted to see I was prepared to live on disappointed, equally oftentimes happens amongst really touristy places. But this actually is a beautiful house as well as I mean value it helps that this was depression flavour as well as nosotros arrived past times nigh 10am - you lot tin for sure facial expression to a greater extent than people after inwards the morning time as well as during the afternoon. I wonder if nosotros mightiness rest hither adjacent fourth dimension rather than inwards Krabi town ...
(above) Railay Beach (West). It gets lots of hype, thence I was expecting something less, but it actually is gorgeous. I am non actually a beach person, I don't "go to the beach", but I mean value I could rest inwards a hotel hither for a few nights as well as only bask the scenery, the sand as well as the body of body of water (and a few beers). It was tranquillity when nosotros arrived as well as that for sure helps. There are exclusively a handful of hotels (check hotels at Agoda), many people see from Ao Nang as well as other nearby areas (Krabi Town or fifty-fifty from Phi Phi) during the day. Also at Railay West nosotros saw plenty of supplies beingness unloaded past times manus from longtail boats. Plenty of function goes into that 20 Baht bottle of water!
(above) Unloading supplies at Railay Beach
(above) My man child could run only about at Railay Beach all twenty-four hours I think! We pick out to come upwards hither again. On this trip nosotros had express time, equally nosotros needed to live on dorsum inwards Krabi Town past times nigh midday or 1pm to banking concern fit out of the hotel. From West Railay, to acquire to Phra Nang Beach you lot pick out to walk dorsum to East Railay as well as and then plow correct until you lot honor the path to Phra Nang. Not a long walk, only a few minutes. Heading to Phra Nang Bay you lot walk past times caves as well as stalactites for a duet of hundred meters. There is a sign to a viewpoint that we'll pick out to explore adjacent time.
Phranang Bay is perhaps fifty-fifty to a greater extent than beautiful than Railay, but smaller. It's hemmed inwards past times high cliffs as well as equally you lot tin estimate the exclusively access is past times foot, addition nosotros saw that some tour boats drib people straight hither rather than Railay. It was nigh 11am when nosotros got to Phra Nang as well as it was noticeably busier than Railay West. But anyway. Wow.
(above) Phranang Beach - click photograph to run across a bigger version (opens inwards a novel browser window)
Phra Nang is for sure a house nosotros could rest for a while, convey a picnic, swim a chip ... it's on the listing for adjacent time! There are several points of involvement hither aside from the beach, the body of body of water as well as the views. Right past times the beach you lot tin honor a cave which features an extremely odd shrine. Offerings are made hereto the princess of Phranang cave inwards the flat of lingams. What are lingams? They are phallic symbols resembling the manlike soul organ (ha ha, won't acquire me to country penis here!) The offerings are said to convey skillful luck, wealth as well as fertility to the local people. It seems these beliefs are withal held today, equally in that location are plenty of novel phallic offerings.
(above) Our fille checking out the shrine at Phra Nang Cave
(above) Looking out from a cave at Phra Nang Beach (not the willy cave, it's the adjacent one). There are a few caves hither as well as I saw someone crawling upwards a narrow passage, but where to? Gosh nosotros actually produce demand to come upwards dorsum as well as explore more!
(above) Lots as well as lots of lingams. Yeh, you lot don't acquire this on whatever other tourist beach!
Phra Nang (and Krabi inwards general) is also good known equally a house to acquire stone climbing. Krabi is a skillful house to learn/try climbing, as well as in that location are plenty of cliffs if you lot are an experienced climber. We constitute a charge of climbers adjacent to the beach. Some looked similar novices, others were climbing higher.
(above) Rock climbing at Phranang, Krabi
Our longtail boat driver was waiting for us at East Railay as well as it was already midday past times the fourth dimension nosotros walked dorsum from Phra Nang. I am glad to country this surface area has surprised me. I am sure it tin acquire crowded at times, but there's a lot of natural beauty hither as well as immediately we're planning our tertiary Krabi trip as well as volition pass to a greater extent than than a duet of hours at Railay as well as Phra Nang!
More nigh Krabi
Krabi Hotels (Booking at Agoda.com)
Krabi Tours amongst my friends at Easy Day Thailand
Tiger Cave Temple
Emerald Pool
Our Trip to Krabi inwards Apr 2017
Our trip to Krabi inwards July 2017
Railay Beach as well as Phra Nang Beach - Location Map
Sumber http://jamie-monk.blogspot.com