Day 11- Phi Phi Island- Paradise Pearl Bungalows

We left Krabi Town in the morning and took a ferry for two hours to Phi Phi Island. This is a beach island. At the pier on Phi Phi we left the ferry and then transferred onto a long tail boat for a 10 minute ride to our accommodation at the Paradise Pearl Bungalow Resort. The water is a brilliant turquoise and I noticed convict tangs swimming in the …

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Days 9 and 10- Khoa Sok National Park- the Raft ho

After breakfast we left our treehouse and our driver drove for about 1 1/2  hours to the lake. We picked up our lake guide, Yu, along the way. At the lake we boarded a long tail boat to take us to the rafthouse. The name long tail comes from the long propeller shaft that can be over 10 feet that stretches from the motor mounted on the deck at …

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Day 8- Khao Sok- Monkeys, Snakes and Thunderstorms

The jungle sounds never stop. We slept well and had breakfast at the restaurant overlooking the limestone cliff and river. The guide drove us to another area where we started a private guided canoe tour down the river. We quickly spotted a troupe of long tailed Macaque monkeys. They were as curious about us as we were of them. They hung in the branches over our heads, so close …

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Day 7- Khao Sok- our little treehouse in the jungle

This morning we said good bye to Chiang Mai and headed to the airport for our flight to Surat Thani, a two hour flight into central Thailand.  A driver met us at the airport in Surat Thani and we drove about an hour and a half to our accommodation in Khao Sok National Park. The weather was overcast and the landscape is green with round top mountains, lush with …

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