The Best Sunset in the World…

| June 7th, 2008 | Krabi

This morning started with bleary eyes and dry mouths as we were woken up the morning after the night before by the bangs of conker like nuts of some sort falling from a tree that towers above our penthouse hut onto our tin roof then bouncing onto the block next to us and back again all the way down each roof on each side on every one of the three floors. Midday was not too far away so we went for breakfast and read for a while before heading to the beach to cool off if the heat, much the same as usual… strolling, paddling, bobbing and reading until before we knew it, it was time for dinner.

While we sat next to the mangroves at Ya Ya’s resturant I noticed that with the tide out the muddy east beach went along much further than we thought so after dinner we went for a stroll not expecting much but having been told about a cliff top viewpoint we decided we would at least go and see where it started, we followed the path between a fucking posh resort and the cliff and at times the path is under the cliff and stalactites hang down around you, it makes you feel really small under the massive overhangs and trees cling onto the sheer faces and vines dangle down to the floor in places they must be 100ft long… After the most interesting 5 minute walk I’ve ever had we hear waves crashing and the cliff and resort part to reveal a beautiful quiet beach with only a handful of people on it, probably due to it being low season and that the only way there is the pretty well hidden path or the gates leading to the extremely flashy resort. We were completely taken aback by it as although we had both seen maps and read the guidebooks and are pretty familiar with the place we were not expecting a beach, let alone one better than any other here! And very probably any one we have seen yet!

It is literally breathtaking… I mean it was on a par with Railay west and Bamboo island and even Ko Samet but we sat on the sand and watched the most amazing sunset we have ever seen and I’m pretty sure will ever see! For nearly 3 hours the sky changed from one gorgeous colour to another completely turning the light on the beach bright vivid orange and an electric shade of pink at times, as the tide rolled out we sat on a patch of sand exposed by the low tide with nothing but sea and cliffs in view and watched the sun disappear over the mainland in the distance. There is nothing around but scenery and maybe 20 other people along way down the other end of the beach and it didn’t feel like we were watching a sunset more that we were in a sunset, the clouds felt so low and the colours reflected off the water and the sand as vividly as the sky it really was all around us. There are pictures and even videos but of course they cant come close to it, after a while we gave up trying to capture a picture of it and just laid in the sand until it was dark…