Samui - Getting Out

We woke up at 5:30 as planned, quickly brushed our teeth and walked in front of the main building, where a taxi was supposed to pick us up between 6 and 6:30. We waited and waited and nothing happened. Something had always felt a bit fishy with the place so this wasn't a huge surprise. At seven a cleaning lady came and we asked if she could call someone and ask about the taxi. She was kind enough to do so and after a while she handed over the phone to me. I didn't understand most of the stuff the man on the other end was saying but finally at 7:15 a fully packed minivan arrived and we hopped on.

I hope you didn't think that the problems would end there because you couldn't have been more wrong. When we arrived at the harbour a man handed tickets to us. Of course a while later he comes back at us telling that we got the wrong tickets. For a while we were just standing there without any tickets at all and we knew that the boat should leave really soon. In a while we got new tickets, put our packs to the bus and went in.

We sat in the bus for maybe five minutes until I noticed that some people were apparently in the wrong bus, and the very same people threw out my backpack when they were taking theirs out. Of course the morons didn't put it back so I had to get out to do it myself. When I opened the cargo door, it broke. The bus driver started yelling at me furiously and I had no idea what I should do about it. A lucky turn of events happened when someone came to Inna and told that we need new tickets once more and we need to change the bus. Now the only problem was that I had lost my damned sticker, which was part of the ticket too. I searched for the sticker and then I noticed one on the ground, but it was stuck in the asphalt and we were in a huge hurry it seemed. I gave up with the sticker on the ground but after a while I had to get back to it and somehow was able to get it off. It didn't have any glue left at that point but I couldn't have cared less.

I started running with my backpack in my hands, trying to catch up with Inna and some random man. Soon we were sitting in a new bus with our backpacks inside, wondering if it was the right bus at all. At least I didn't have to deal with the broken one! In about twenty minutes the bus drove to a ferry and we were on our way to the mainland. In mainland we had to change the bus in Surat Thani once more, and again this change included a lot of waiting and promises about the bus coming "in ten minutes".

A tasty lunch

When we finally arrived at Krabi we found out that the center of Krabi has pretty much nothing to offer, and that everything interesting would be about twenty kilometers further by the sea. We also found out that accommodation in the center is a lot cheaper so we decided to stay there and drive those twenty kilometers with a moped. Quite soon we were unpacking everything in our hotel room, which cost 300 bahts a night.

Find the Buddha.

The first priority after eating was to find a bike and after asking around a bit we found a nice place where we rented a brand new 135 cc Yamaha scooter. For the rest of the day we just drove around Krabi and enjoyed the simply astonishing views all around. Pictures will tell more than a thousand words but you still have to see the rock formations covered in jungles for yourself to understand how beautiful they really are.

Rocky jungle

Just before sleeping we visited a night market in Krabi to get some food. Service there was horrible and we had to wait for our food for at least thirty minutes and even then Inna didn't get the food she ordered. And of course the food was more expensive than it was supposed to be. We didn't feel like picking a fight so we paid and left and made sure that we won't order our food from those people anymore.

Someone's house in Krabi

More rocks in Krabi

The western coast of Thailand