Koh Phi Phi

Ko Phi Phi is one of the places that was really badly affected by the 2004 tsunami but you would never know it now, we decided to pre-book our diggs on Phucket at a place called “snowwith resort” along with the boat tickets. The boat ride over was really nice and comfortable and as we got nearer to Ko Phi Phi it all very beautiful, as we pulled into the bay the water was so clear and full of colourful little fish, ive never seen anything like it despite a shitload of boats its almost too clear! But we hopped off the boat and a man with snowwith resort written on a table tennis paddle thing and a big two wheeled wheelbarrow took our bags for us and trotted off and because we had no bags we skipped along behind him through markets and streets with a million girl distracting shiny things and amazing food smells until we got to a massive hill which was as much as we could manage without our bags let alone the poor sod pushing 4 up the bastard… He triumphed and we arrived at a gorgeous rattan longhouse with amazingly big bathrooms on split levels and mattresses on the floor and outside a long porch streching along 4 bungalows and haging from the cliffs above were loads more rattan huts in amost the thick covering of trees a good hundred feet up, fuck that climb! The rooms themselves were pretty, cheap and comfortable but after one drunken stumble up the hill we checked out the next morning…
Before we checked out though we went down the hill to a bar called sunflowers which is an amazing bar made from what looks like mostly recovered wood from after the tsunami and old smashed boats cut up to make seats, along the path to sunflowers is where the evedidence of what the tsunami did is most clear and because the people are so focused on looking forward there is a really good feel to the place. We had some drinks and food and chatted away to one of the owners then sat on the beach with a beer and watched the sunset, one of the best we have seen…
After that we headed into town to the Tiger bar for some more of those buckets of fun which apparently are everywhere in Thailand, and while we were there we saw a sign saying staff wanted and seeing as we intend to be here for a few days Georgie enquired… free drinks all night and 300 baht to hand out fliers on the street outside for a few hours… so Georgie and Laura went for it and we moved onto another bar called the reggae bar, which played fuck all reggae but did have a boxing ring inside, they put on a few fights between the local thai boxers which are amazing but staged, then invite people to knock seven bells out of their friends for a free bucket and even though they all get in the ring with the best intentions and their friendship in mind after the first person land a whopper it on! They are the fights to see, its basically a pub fight with gloves on…in a pub!
After probably too many buckets we all staggered back up the hill to our hut and watched a movie…