Krabi Town/Koh Phi Phi (Day 1)

For the sake of just saying, the trip was wonderful. The company (a.k.a boyfriend) was awesome, the country of choice was awesome and not to mention, the food was absolute love. We had more italian food than thai food, which is really ironic considering we were in Thailand. Honestly, half the time, I couldn't believe I was in Thailand.

How could somewhere that's known to me as an extremely polluted and underdeveloped country be so beautiful? Well, this place changed my mind. Singapore's modernity and cleanliness could not be compared to the small Krabi town's quaint rustic beauty at all.

I shouldn't bore you with words though. Words do no justice to the beauty that I experienced in the past 4 days. This post is the first installment of my travel diary to Krabi/Phi Phi.

Do note that we spent the first day in Krabi Town because it was too late to get a boat to Koh Phi Phi island.

And I shall now start the post proper with photos and such:

I met up with the boyfriend at about 12.30 since our flight was at 1.50pm. It was pretty awkward at the Airport since our parents met up with each other for the first time ever since we got together 5 years ago. But all went well and we soon checked in. We flew with Tiger Airways since it was the only flight that flew directly to Krabi.

A monster that we made out of Secret Recipe's sucky bread and okay-tasting Lasagna. Hehe, cute much? Our creativity is unbeatable!

We boarded the plane after awhile since it was pretty boring stoning in the budget terminal with practically nothing much to do.

And soon, we bade goodbye to Singapore. I think I've mentioned this before but flying is really therapeutic. It's like being amongst a million cotton candies. And it's just one of the most amazing feeling ever to look out of a plane and see your country slowly disappearing behind you. It's almost as if you're leaving behind all your problems and issues and nothing will matter much for that few days since you've left that country.

After awhile, we abandoned all tranquility and decided for some food and drinks. Since the drinks on Tiger Airways were pretty exorbitant (read: packet drinks for $3.50), we decided to settle for some Gin and sprite since alcoholic drinks were only selling at $6. The sprite was $3.50... So we spent almost $10 just on drinks alone. :/ We also decided on having some biscuits to munch on.

We got bored after awhile and decided to play Monopoly Deal. I won one round and the idiot won one.

After 1 hour and 45 minutes of flight time, we reached Krabi Airport. We met up with our driver who was going to drive us to our Hotel, Krabi Cozy place. And soon, we reached the hotel.

That's our Hotel room for you. My only complain is that the floor was extremely sticky for some weird reason. Other than that, for the mere price we were paying, the place was extremely lovely with great service and all.

And this was the view we got from the balcony attached to our room.

After settling down for awhile, we decided to explore Krabi Town further. We got lost for awhile... But we eventually found a small market filled to the brim with food. And what would two hungry tourists do?

We bought a large amount of food that left us bloated throughout the entire evening. Just look at the amount of food we brought back. A bag of salad that was about 60 Baht, a crab looking thing that was about 50 Baht, a bag of green curry for 10 Baht, a bag of rice for 5 Baht, a bag of cockles for 20 Baht, a stick of meatballs for 10 Baht (eaten), a cup of corn for 15 Baht and some grapefruit as well as durian that we left in the fridge that couldn't cost more than 70 Baht in total.

In conclusion, our entire meal cost us less than 15 singapore dollars and left us bloated beyond words. The food was great to say the least.

Throughout our meal, we were patriotic enough to be watching the live broadcast of the National Day Celebration from Singapore through Channel News Asia in Krabi. It was pretty cool. Hahahaha. It felt like we were there but not there. (:

After another short while, we decided to explore again. As usual we got lost again and ended up in a thai pub.

It was a nice place though we couldn't speak any Thai at all and had lots of difficulties ordering just some Heineken. However, despite our language gaps, the locals were extremely nice and polite to us which was really heart warming.

We left the place after an hour or so of waiting for the rain to wear itself off.

After that, we decided to walk back to the hotel. Near to our hotel is a restaurant called Viva, feeling hungry (AGAIN -___-), we decided to eat something over there.

This is Viva. The food here is awesome. We had a hawaiian pizza for about 200 Baht. The pizza is about the size of a large pizza hut pizza and yet only at a fraction of its price. It was the best pizza I've ever eaten in my life. The crust was thin, the toppings were more than sufficient and it was just mouthfuls of orgasm. And I'm not even exaggerating.

After our late supper, we finally decided to head back to our hotel and slept our first day away. All in all, we had a fulfilling and amazing first day in Krabi. And that was just one of the four amazing days we had there.

Toodles.