Lagoon Thrill Climb

We go for the view point and the lagoon today. It's a nice little walk and climb at first. And the view is awesome.

View from the viewpoint of Railay

Going down to the lagoon gets pretty scary. I actually think I will not go, but after 3 of us already went down, I dare. This is kind of sick though, as the mud is wet and all over the ropes that are partly the only thing to hold onto. So you have to rely just on the strength of your arms holding onto the slippery rope. I am so glad when I reach the lagoon. And so proud of myself that I did it. :) And it's great.

Getting back up is not that bad. Even though it's kind of sick, as it is like rock climbing without the rope to save you from falling down...

Climbing down to the lagoon

Getting ready to jump into the lagoon

One, two, three, bungeeeeee

On our way to the Krabi Bungee Jump 

We went for Bungee Jumping today near Krabi. I didn't jump though... I'm a chicken... :) And I'm still glad I didn't do it...

Hanging out at the Bungee Place

I think this is Nathan jumping off the 55 meters...

Kieshas Birthday and the night I lost my camera to

It's Kiiiiieeeshas Birthday today. So we celebrate for a while at the Highland restaurant.

Kiesh with birthday drink and birthday cake (well...panCAKE)

Dinner at Highlands

Later on we go down to the "Skunk Bar", playing pool and dancing a lot.

Ben playing at Skunk Bar

At some point almost everyone is gone so I go to the "Last Bar", where I meet Sanna. So we chill and dance there for a while, meeting new people from a lot different places.

The reeeeally yummy burgers next to Last Bar

I had so much fun this night, but I can't really describe it. It's just this feeling of joy inside of me :) Well, there would be the yummy cheeseburgers, the jumping into some other hotels weird soft floor pool, sitting on the street eating some rice topped with Chang and soya sauce while sunrise and wanting to get into a cave, but then running away pretty fast ...

This was the night that I lost my camera to...

Back to school

The kids welcoming us at their school

We are going to a school today. Everyone brought stuff from back home to give to the kids. When our truck arrives at the school, the kids are running up the gateway with a Canadian flag to welcome us. Yeah... I wondered where the German flag was... ;) 

And then there is this weird moment, where the Thai kids stand on the one side and us standing on the other side, just watching each other, not knowing what to do. Till the teacher comes up and makes us follow her to 3 rows of chairs provided for us.

The kids start singing and performing stuff for us and we are playing games with them. Some of them are totally new for me and some of them are slowly coming back to my mind as we used to play them at school when I was their age too.

The students in their school uniform
sitting perfectly in rows in front of us

Playing games with the kids

Having fun playing kid games again...:)

Later on some of us are throwing American football with them, playing basketball or frisbee and then there is this Canadian hand-clapping-game. It's fun, even though I do not get the sense of the song that goes with it. I wish I'd remember any games like that, to show them...

"stella ella ola clap clap clap singing es 
tigo tigo tigo tigo crack jack...es tigo tigo fa low fa low...
falow falow falow counting 1,2,3,4,5..."

Year Book Pic...well no, but group picture

I wonder if they think, we are some really weird Canadians (yeah, I put myself in there now too.... ) So happy to come and see their school and take pictures with them, even though we don't know them at all... 

# MUSIC Doo doo doo by Job 2 do

Always reminds me of Railay. This song burned itself into our heads and was present during the whole time of this trip. Awesome!

Railay in a nutshell

View from the restaurant of Highlands

# THE PLACE

Highland Bungalows are at the east beach of Railay. Well not at the beach, but a 5 minutes walk up the hill. Lovely bungalows and perfect porch to set up the hammock. A lot of noises outside make me and my roommate cuddle a lot ;) Yeah, I do have a roommate now: Nicole. :) I am so happy, not to have a room to myself anymore :)

My new roomie Nicole :)

The bungalows at Highlands

Hanging out at the porch of the bungalow

Railay itself is kind of a sporty place: Rockclimbing is just awesome here. There are some bars along our side of the island and even a tiny little bit of shopping.

Bars at the east beach

# THE BEACH

The East Beach is not made for swimming. But Pranang Beach is just great. It even has a penis shrine... yeah...that's what I said: PENIS SHRINE!

East beach of Railay

Pranang beach

The penis shrine ...

# THE ANIMALS

There are some cute ones and some gross ones. We even saw a black scorpion one day. Scary.

Cute monkeys on the way to our bungalows

Visitor of our bungalow one day

Spider near the reception

# GETTING A TATOO

My roommate Nicole gets her tattoo done here, as it is said to be the best place to do so. The guy doing it is pretty cool and chilled, so it takes a while till he finally shows up. But his work is just awesome.

Nicole at the tattoo shop

This tattoo took like 3 hours
(+1 hour of just drawing it the day before on her foot)
and costs about 3000 Baht (62 Euro, 94 CAD)

Rocking the Rocks of Railay

Nicole and me. First night. First morning. Out at the porch wanting to get back in ... locked out. That's just hilarious... so I went to the reception to get the extra key. While waiting for it, I look around and see someone sitting at the Coffee bar... I get the key and walk down to Bertus, who is playing the guitar to himself. He looks as if he had no sleep yet and he still smells like more than one bottle of Sang Som. He's just like "Well, I haven't seen my bungalow yet... just got back here..." No way, this guy is drunk for more than 48 hours already... WTF?!?

Rock climbing is the task of today. I am sooo much looking forward to it. And it IS awesome. There is nothing more to explain about it. Everyone should do this! I just did it indoor at some fake rocks before, but this is sooo much better. We battle about who will climb up the fastest. I beat my roomie in it and stay first place till Dave and Amara overtake. I'd love to go again, but after my 3rd climb I am pretty exhausted.

Rock climbing day

I just love to climb these rocks

It starts raining anyways so the second part of the climbing is moved to tomorrow and we are running back home through the rain.

Everyone tries to hide under the rocks, when it started to rain
(except Tiff, who was still climbing...)

The weather "forces" us to start drinking pretty early today... There is someone joining back in the group ... not wanting to drink any alcohol...his body starting to make him feel the last three days in another world...

Aaaand, he's back in our world...
unusual drinks in front of Bertus...

I go down to the bars with Dallas to find a place for pizza. We find a place and we order Spicy Chicken Pizza. Why the hell should I order something spicy? I do not like spicy stuff! Well, in my drunken brain, I thought if I asked the waiter, if it was spicy and he says no, than it would be fine...helloohooo...we are in Thailand! Thai spicy is not like German spicy. So we get this pizza, that I am looking forward to for hours, I have a big bite...and then I order a drink pretty fast... well I'm glad Chris came to share the pizza with Dallas. Hmmm...not too glad though, because that was when Chris deleted all my pictures...
(He got most of them back the next day. They are pretty crashed and the videos are gone, but I'm thankful for the stuff that I got back)

Last photo before he deleted my pictures... dearest Chris... 

# MUSIC Free Falling by Tom Petty

Reminding me of rockclimbing, when we went down the rocks and spread our arms...awesome time...

# MUSIC Fuck you I'm drunk ...

Dedicated to Bertus for his 3-days-drinking-odyssey, that he somehow survived ...