We decided to book a half day kayaking this time instead. The last time we were here and booked the full day tour, the guide didn't quite know what to do after we're done kayaking at 12 pm, where we already felt tired and wanted to call it a day but since we paid it full day tour we followed him anyway. The guide took us with another couple to an empty beach and left us there for a while. It was quite strange. He then picked us up drove us to see "crocodile farm". A crocodile farm? There were only 2 crocodiles in there and millions of cat fish, so we fed the cat fish. There were so creepy. So, we made no mistake this time, we booked the half day tour kayak. We kayak around huge limestones and caves, mangroves jungle, and lagoons. It was magnificent! There was this cave where we got out of our kayak and climb up to see the magnificent stalactite and stalagmite. Our tour guide kept mixing up which were stalagmites and stalactites. My father-in law who studied geography all of his life told me an easy way how to remember the difference between stalactite and stalagmite. He said "StalagTITES and stalagMITES are like ants in your pants, the MITES go up and the TITES come down" :). He also explained to me how they're formed. I can't really put it in a smart and fancy way as he does but it's basically a slow process of acidic water drips and hardens and forms it to cones. Am I making any sense?
Anyway, back to to the cave. The cave called "The Skull" cave because on one side of the cave and if you see from a far it looks like a skull. We can sort of see the form of the eyes and nose. On a wall, there are some pre-historical paintings, that according to the sign is 3000 years old. Pretty cool!
After our fun and tiring kayak tour, we did one thing we like best (well the tree of us), massage! What a great way to end your "exhausting" day.
The next day, my husband had to leave for work :( but the three of us continued being tourist by taking a boat ride to snorkel to Ko Phi Phi Island. Luckily, my mom in-law and I got called first to get in to the boat so we got the best seats in the boat. It was the only two high seats almost next to the boat driver. We could see everything! Or so we thought. The rain came and the driver went full speed and with the wind and raindrops on our face, we put our sunglasses and closed our eyes. We stopped at few beaches and lagoons to snorkel but everywhere we go was soooo freakin busy and boats were everywhere and people were snorkelling below, kinda scary. The busiest spot was when we got to Maya Bay, where, they filmed Leonardo DiCaprio's movie "The Beach". Thanks to Leo, the place has gotten sooooo famous. Just when we enter Maya Bay, the whole beach was closed by lines of boats! I've never seen a beach that busy before, holy crap!
Before we ended our tour, after lunch we stopped at another snorkelling point where we had to jump into the water and the boat crew assisted my father in-law carelessly not knowing the distance between the boat and the corals, my father in-law jumped and hit the corals and cut his foot pretty badly. He got in the boat right away and people were being nice and helped him sanitized his foot but he still got an infected foot. Not the greatest tour for him I guess.
There was this lady who sells Thai pancakes just at the intersection road to our hotel. It is quite different than the pancakes I know, but it's sooo delicious, so delicious that I always stop by to buy her pancake, my favourite is banana chocolate! I want one right now...
We all agreed our highlight of the trip was the half day kayak tour and the Thai chocolate banana pancake for me! :)
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