We had a quick pitstop at Ao Nang, a seaside town on the mainland. From here we would split up and take busses to separate parts of Thailand, Grace was headed east to do her diving course and I was headed north to Phuket airport and onwards to Vietnam.
It wasn’t quite as plain sailing there as I’d of hoped, as I arrived to find my flight to Thailand and my flight home to the UK had been cancelled so I spent the first half a day in Ao Nang contacting airlines and chasing refunds so I could rebook my flights. but after a tense few hours I managed to rebook everything. The rest of the afternoon we spent chilling by the pool and we headed out for one of our last few authentic Thai curries in the evening, then on to a bar where they tried to sell us magic mushroom milkshakes and weed, but we settled for a few rounds of beer pong with some people we had met instead.
The next day we decided to visit the famous Railey beach a small peninsula only accessible by boat with interesting rock formations and beautiful beaches. We got into a boat taxi which was a merge if a traditional boat with an engine on a stick propelling us through the water. Unfortunately for us it rained most of the time we were there, but in-between we still managed to walk to all four of the famous beaches and we spent a good hour watching people rock climbing up the side of a cliff face.
We returned back to the mainland and then packed ready for our busses the next morning.
We started off on the same bus taken to the local depo and then had to wait for our separate busses which ended up taking about an hour. In that time I managed to accidentally lure in about 10 cats by opening a bag of crisps and then had to spent the next 5 minutes fighting them off, much to the amusement of the other people waiting. Eventually we said our goodbyes and got onto our busses ready for the next part of our adventures. This part I’d be without my chief navigator so I had decided to book onto a tour.
I’ll tell you all about it soon, lots of love, Alice x
Leaving got surrounded by cats who wanted my crisps