Rai Lei - the only non-climbers there!!

So we made the flight in Bangkok after a long and painless drive, but as it was delayed, we missed the last longtail boats to Railei beach and had to stay in Krabi for a night...as it was now 9pm, we were not left with many options, so we stayed in a funny little room above a Rasta-bar for GBP2.50!! Okay, so not our finest moment and I do not think it was a bed, more like a table with linen on it, but it kept us off the street and got the budget back on track!

We got the early boat the next day to Reilei and a very hot search for a bungalow....I lost the toss and left Simon at a cafe with all of the bags. Let's just say I had not showered in 48 hours by this stage, it was about 36 degrees (at 10am) and all I saw were expensive resorts...then, up the hill near where all the rock climbers 'hang-out' I found fab, cheep, cool bungalows and the first thing we did was take a cold shower - 2 brownie points to Cath!!


Longtail

Reilei is SO beautiful. It is made up of 2 'beaches', we stayed in Reilei east which is more of a mangrove swamp but a 5min walk away was Reilei west...we basically spent 4 days sat on this beach. You understand why!


Railei west

There was another cute little beach between the 2 that we visited for an afternoon, loads of climbers just hang out here, bouldering. The other draw is that there are some cheeky little monkeys who hang around the rich folk at the fancy resort there looking for food. They are quite tame indeed and will even hang down for a spot of nosh!!


sizing us up


getting ready for the lunge


bullseye!!

Amazing water for swimming, pineapples served on the beach, reading lots of books, chilling at the 'Stone Bar' in the evenings. No climbing. Nothing much more to report really.


Cool sunset


Chilling in the evening - with a Chang