Krabi, Koh Lanta und Koh Phi Phi - Thailand's West coast

Close to Krabi, I took a look outside of the bus and couldn’t believe where I am. I felt like stuck as an actor in the movie “Avatar”. Everywhere, steep green overgrown rocks reached up to the sky which is typical for Thailand. I doubted that they would be there after one day. But they did. I met Ines in Krabi Town again, but first of all we went to the food market. Fruit shakes, exotic fruits, fried noodles and rice, delicious curry, fried vegetables and heaps more were sold by many small food stalls. One highlight was also the big night market on friday. The narrow alleys were filled with people, everywhere it smelled after fresh made food, lots of outfits for a low price you can find here, souvenirs from Thailand were sold in every corner und on the stage, break dancers, musicians and dancers tried to entertain the crowd.
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Steep, green...
...rocks. So nice.
Highway to hell
With the scooter we went to the Tiger Cave Temple nearby Krabi. But just to take the motorcycle wasn’t enough. The actual temple is 1260 steps higher and who is thinking that every single step is similar to the next one, he or she’s wrong. The smallest wasn’t really a step and for the biggest one, we had to jump to get over the almost 50 centimetre step. Also we as tourists were in the minority. Gangs of monkeys tried to scare the shit out of everybody. Don’t drop anything because you will definitely lose it. Every effort to get it again, it will be answered with a loud hiss. After 2 litre sweat less and 1260 steps higher, we reached the summit where we could find a big golden Buddha statue.
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Start point for the Tiger Cave Tempel
Beware of the gangs of monkeys
1260 steps higher. 
We already knew about the Railay Beach because almost every Tuk-Tuk or taxi driver asked us if we need a ride to that place. Instead of taking a taxi, we rented the scooter again for one day and followed the road which leads us along the steep rocks to this beach. It is paradise for rock climbers. But if you don’t like rock climbing than you can also take a sunbath on the beach and watching little monkeys.
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Night market
So sweet 
National park on Koh Lanta
Koh Lanta was another island on our bucket list. Everybody who likes parties should avoid this place. Here are just a few people in the low session which gives the locals the opportunity to have vacation or to build some more bungalows. Our discovery started with a tour to the Southern point from the island to a small national park. There, we walked along a small natural trail which was over after one hour. We didn’t know that stairs and steps are natural. Some other very nice places were Old Town on the other side and the Tiger Cave, which we couldn’t find.
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A little restaurant 
Food market
A nice bar next to the beach
If you like the movie “the beach” than you should definitely go to Koh Phi Phi. The small island “Koh Phi Leh” was the scenery for that movie. But this was not the reason for us to come here. We wanted to visit another place which is below the surface and completely different. The reef was very healthy what I didn’t expect. We also did a kaiak tour to 2 different beaches. On our way back, the wind got stronger and we got this brillant idea to make a sail. It worked pretty well and everybody was cheering during they passed us. But one hard gust and we lost our balance. We felt into the water with all of our belongings. During Ines collected everything that swim on the surface, I chased the kaiak down. No chance at all. The wind was to strong and pushed the kayak a way to fast. Some friendly guys with a long tail boat picked us up. They are maybe still laughing about the 2 stupid tourists. 
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Sunset on Koh Lanta
Heaps of long-tail-boats
Koh Phi Phi
Travelling is very exhausting but lots of people will not understand this. We applied as a volunteer in a hostel in Kuala Lumpur/ Malaysia and were approved. The Yellow House, so its named, is not a normal hostel. It’s more like a community which works together all the time. Additional, the people are helping out disabled kids and adults and also homeless people. We will see how it is.
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