Raily Beach, Krabi

I did stayed for the black moon party as well, and it nothing worth to write about, or maybe I just really had enough of parties and Ko-Pangan. Anyway, the next day on the 23/09, day which again started very late (and I really hated it), I decided to move on. Itai & Adi were leaving in the evening to Bagkok, David & Max to Ko-Samui for a night, Maxim staying in Ko-Pangan with Tamar and her friend. I packed my bag, went to the center and bought a ticket to Krabi, night boat and then couple of hours on a bus. My destination was Raily beach in Krabi, I heard so many great things about the place and was really exited to move. I wasn't sad to move like I was when I left Pai, I guess it means it was really time to go. I spent my last two hours in Ko-Pangan with Maxim, Tamar and Lior (Tamar's freind). Maxim escorted me to the taxi, we said Goodbye again, and I left! (I will and I already do miss him a lot).

The next morning, around 11:00 am after a long trip by boat and bus I got to Raily beach! From the boat you see white sand, blue water surrounded by height rocky mountains. There are Raily West and East beaches, they are 10 minutes walk away one from another, the west side is very expensive with beautiful 5 starts resorts. The east side is cheaper, but not much. The cheapest room I could find is 300 baht for night, a room with no windows, no hot shower, and no sink! It didn't bother me, I was so happy to be away from the crowed. I left the bags in the room and went to the beach to have a shake and look around. All the way to the beach I couldn't stop smiling, I was alone BUTvery happy and full of energy, I wanted to go everywhere, to see everything. I read in the book about beautiful Lagoon inside the mountains, about climbing and kayaks, etc'. I wanted to live the day and not the night as in Ko-Pangan and I was definitely in the right place for this. The landscape around is like a scene from an adventure movie. I spent great afternoon of the beach and just roaming around, admiring the scenery around.


About 05:00 pm I went back to the guest house to have a shower, and on my way... Who do you think I meet? Max & David, the two crazy travelers :-). We talked about going together from Ko-Pangan but I really didn't think they are serious about it. These two are party animals, in Ko-Pangan they partied every night and the next day slept late and were too tired to do things (but who am I to say it, I did the same in Ko-Pangan :-)). Anyway I was really happy to see them. Max told me about his plans to explorer the surroundings, we both wanted to see the lagoon and the caves, I was happy that I now have partners.
We had dinner together and went out for some drinks and pool. Since had big plans for tomorrow, around 02:00 am we called it an early night and went to sleep. The next day we had a beautiful day out!!! We climbed all the way to the Lagoon, unfortunately after you get up you need to go down, it was too slippery and in 90% down, I gave up on going down and saw the Lagoon from up, see>


Max & David did all the way, and I really admired them for it, and was really angry at myself for giving up.


After the Lagoon we continued to the view point, some more up on the other side of the mountain. We got the point and we went WOW!


Today the plan was to go and do rock climbing course, but it was heavy raining in the morning, I saw Maxim and David after breakfast and we decided to have a sleep till rain stops. Eventually we started the day around 01:00 pm (the rain stooped at least two hours earlier). Max & David decided to go for the half day course anyway, so they are climbing as I write. We agreed I will take the pictures, so I must got to document the historical moment.
As for me I decided to have an easy day, on the beach with a book, swim and maybe visit another cave and a view point on the other part of the beach.

The atmosphere here is the same like in Pai, in the evenings there are no loud parties, but there is music every where, nice places for a drink or a smoke. People are smiling and mingling one with another, there are fire shows, etc, I found PAI but with a beautiful ocean in addition!
I LOVE THIS PLACE!!! I LOVE IT!

Check out some more pictures http://www.flickr.com/photos/oksana-s/

Be well!

P.S I will probably move to Ko Pi-Pi in a day or two...