After 2 1/2 fun filled weeks at Clayzy House on Koh Lanta, and 2 unexpected, adventure filled days in Krabi (a small city in southern Thailand), with 2 girls, Astrid and Emily, who were volunteering with at the "Happy Hippie's Village", we're now heading to Koh Phangan (an island off the east coast of Thailand). My cousin, Safir, coincidentally is living there at the moment, so we'll be meeting up with her :D !!!
Our time at Clayzy House was a wonderful experience! We worked hard, had loads of fun and sun, painted beautifully, relaxed well, sang a lot, and made connections that'll last forever. It is a very interesting place, and Neng Neng has created a unique environment, trying to enforce community unity and relaxation to the max. I was sad to leave, but I don't doubt that it was the right time to move on...
Yesterday, Kelsey, Emily, Astrid, and I woke up in our room here in Krabi, rented 2 motorbikes between the 4 of us, and set off with the intention of going to the national park, and emerald pond, and tiger cave temple...but, as all good days start, we ended up changing our plans... On our way up to the national park, we saw a tiny sign reading "To the cave, To the top --> ", so we stopped and explored some :) .
The cave wasn't huge or scary (from what we saw) but the rock formations were incredible! We then decided to heck out "the top", and so started our jungle trek up the face of what felt like a cliff. We bush whacked, and followed the sometimes visible path, and climbed up steeeep faces where someone had thankfully attached rope that we could hold onto. There were a few times that we stopped and considered whether or not it was worth the difficult and dangerous climb up (and more dangerous yet, down), but we pushed up to the top where we sucked up the amazing views, and a refreshing watermelon I had carried up! Kels and I have seen many incredible views from mountaintops, but this was our first with surroundings like these...!
We all made it down with no more than a few scrapes and scares, and then headed to the national park where we found a nice, refreshing, waterfall. The nice thing about our first adventure of the day was that noooo one was around...not even any Thais, and it had most likely rarely been done by a tourist. But arriving at the park, we were brought back to the reality of annoying crouds of tourists, and Thais on tour, taking away from the raw beauty and of our surroundings.
We then hopped back on our bikes and were driving toward the beach when we had another little, unexpected occurrence of a flat tire (which could have been - but wasn't - dangerous). The chain of events to follow were so ridiculous and frustrating, and when we finally all found each other again, drove to the beach, and were sitting in the sand watching the sunset, with a much neeeeded beer in hand, we were able to laugh at all of it!
More adventures ahead...!
P.s. I'm sorry about the lack of pictures on the blog :( my Blogger app has failed me continuously, and simply won't post oictures. And as I lack access to a computer, I have resorted to posting my pictures on Facebook ( Iolani deRis ), or I can email them to you upon request :)
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