More Phi Phi.

So, more Phi phi fun times. Yey.

The next day on Phi Phi some of the Warwick girls decided that it would be jolly fun to try and find a different beach. Becky and I agreed. We thought about getting a taxi boat over, but then some one realised that we could in fact walk to a very pleasant beach. Rikki, Rachael, Sophie, Becky and me decided that we could manage the walk, while Katie and Jade chose the taxi boat option. We got up super early (well, nineish) to start the walk, because we had to walk up to a viewpoint and then back down the other side to get to the beach. My goodness, it was tremendously hard work!! Sophie and I had to stop about a tousand times on the way up to the viewpoint, and that was just climbing stairs!! Quite a few stairs, mind you. It was super hot as well, and we were all looking very sweaty and gross. Ew. At the top of the viewpoint (when we finally got there) we took some photos and celebrated our achievement with ice lollies.

We htought that the journey down te other side of the big hill woudl be easier, because it was downhill. Sadly, we were mistaken. Wile on the way up there was a lovely track with steps that had been made especially, on the way down there was no track. Just sand, and leaves and stuff. And it was very steep downhill. A few times we got a bit lost as well, because it was not veery well signposted through the jungle. Bimes. There were also quite a few incidents where one or two of us fell over.

Finally, we made it to the beach. We were all soooo happy to finally get there. It was a beautiful beach, but I think the fact that we had trekked for two hours in the heat to get to it made it even more special!! By the time we got there it was majorly hot, so we sat in the shade for a while and got some lunch. After about an hour, Katie and Jade rocked up in their taxi boat. We started telling them about our mad adventure, but it turns out that they had had quite and experience as well. They had been told by Doris that you caould walk to this beach in half an hour, so they had started to walk to it. It turned out though, that the walk was way difficult, adn they had to go through jungle and over rocks and in the sea, and they had got halfway round when Jade slashed her foot open on a rock. It was way bimes. So they got a taxi boat for the rest of the way. The boat would have been super expensive, but Jade cried so that taxi guy gave it to them for cheaper.

We spent the rest of the day chilling on the beach. It was super fun. We got the last taxi boat back at six o'clock. I could ahve stayed on the beach for longer, but I was not prepared to walk back!!

In the evening time we had a happy meal together. I had sweet and sour chicken. We went out to the beach for free buckets after that, but some boys had pinched their cards so we couldn't play ring of fire. Gutted. No one was really feeling the drunken times anyway, so we went to bed pretty early.

The next day we planned a super adventure again. We wanted to see the Tsunami village, and there were signposts to it everywhere, so we presumed we could walk to it. Wrong again, we were. We began the walk, but we seemed to be walking fo rAGES with nothing around us. We kept asking Thai people, and they didn't really know what we were on about when we said "Tsunami village". We thought it was strange but we carried on. We kept having to walk up major hills as well. We had just go tto the top of an especially large hill, adn we were all very happy, but we looked ahead of us and there was like amountain in front that we were supposed to climb. We gave up and went back to get some lunch.

We all wanted to go to Bamboo Island in the afternoon, becauses omeone had told us that it was really nice. We started bargaining with the taxi boat people, but htey were all saying that it was way expensive to get there. We tried really hard to bargain, but it didn't really get us anywhere. Then we found out that even just t sit on the beach on Bamboo Ilsnad you had to pay 200 baht for a national park fee. We are poor backpackers, sowe gave up on bamboo island. We got a taxi boat to a happy little beach and chilled out there all day.

Int he evening time we went out for a nice dinner at an Italia place. I had bolognase pizza. Lovely lovely. But Becky wsn't feeling great so she went to bed afterwards. I stayed out with the girls adn we went to watch some Thai boxing. Oh, it was major fun times. :) People kept coming up to us with big signs saying that volunteers got free buckets, but we did not feel like joining in. For some reason, I'm not quite sure how, Rikki and Rachael got persuaded into doing th eThai boxing, and they went up against each other in the ring. It was soooo funny. Possibly one of the funniest things in the world. They were properly going at each other. It was brill. They won free buckets and we all got merry.

Then we went into the randomest bar in the world. It was completely empty apart from us, and we only went there to get free buckets. It was like in the ghetto of Phi Phi. Way funny. We were about to leave, but then they played Cheryl for us, so we stayed and danced. Then we went to the beach. We met lots of taxi boat drivers on the way. We randomly kept saying "cheap cheap" to them. And we tried to get a taxi boat to England for 20 baht. It didn't work. Then we thought it would be funny to get a tattoo (there are a bajillion tattoo parlours on Phi Phi), so we kept saying "tattoo for dessert". I don't know why. No one got a tattoo. Phew.

Then we went to bed. The next day a few people were feeling very poorly. I was fine, because I had learned my lesson about the Thai whiskey from the first night. We were on the boat to Krabi as well. Not fun times with a hangover. Oh dear.

I was very sad to leave Phi Phi. I loved it. Going back soon though. YEY.