Day 2 – Full Day Island Tour
Where we stayed, Timber House Ao Nang.
We booked the day tour when we arrived at the hotel the day before. The tour guide June passed us a list of day tour which include water sports to jungle tour, price range from THB700 to THB 1500. As usual, as we were in a group of 4 persons, there is some discount given. We booked 2 day-tours for second and third day and paid only during the last day when we were transferred to the airport.
After the breakfast at the hotel cafe which was included in the hotel package, the tour guide picked us up from the hotel at 8:30am with the local tourist transfer vehicle which is call songthaew. Our hotel was the first station and following that, we went to other hotel to pick up other tourist too.
A sticker is given to us to indicate which group we were in.
For the full-day tour, we chosen the 4-island hoping tour which include Tup Island, Poda Island, Chicken Island and Phranang Beach. The tour guide for the day was explaining to the tourist for the journey. As Krabi is a new travel destination, there are a lot of local tourist as well.
Phranang beach is our first station. It is a secluded peninsular which is only accessible by boat, 15mins from Ao Nang or 30mins from Krabi town. There is a Phranang cave which famous for rock climbing. Opposite Phranang beach is the Railey beach which famous for world rock climbing.
Phranang Beach
Phranang Cave has unique limestone natural setting.
A cafe at the cave
Next destination is Chicken Island. It is named after the shape of it’s unique limestone which looks like a chicken. It is excellent for snorkeling.
Chicken Island, better known as Koh Pai
It is my very first time for snorkeling. Next will be Phuket this March!
After that, we had our lunch at Chicken Island at 1pm local time. Next station is Tup Island. But this time, we are not going by boat but we were going to walk through the sea to reach Tup Island!
Shene was standing on Chicken Island. Behind where she stood, you can see the white sandy causeway that joins to Tup Island.
We walked through the water towards the beach behind us. The water was at our waist level. It looks deep as we were jumping our step instead of walking.
Long tail boat
As you can see, people was walking in the water. This photo taken from Tup Island.
Group photo taken at Tup Island. The rock behind us forms beautiful background.
Our final destination, Poda Island
Recall what happened in 2004, Tsunami has caused big hazard to this island too.
She was excited for the fish by the beach of Poda Island!
Here come the evening that fill the fullstop for the island hoping trip.
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