{"id":1132,"date":"2014-12-22T03:43:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T09:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theagostins.com\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2014-12-22T03:43:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T09:43:24","slug":"krabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/?p=1132","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Beaches around Krabi"},"content":{"rendered":"

You\u2019ve seen the pictures of gorgeous sunsets, and the famous Thai beaches with white sand, crystal water and limestone karsts jutting out. Let me tell ya, it\u2019s harder to find in Krabi than you would think, but when you do finally, it\u2019s spectacular.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s my travel advice warning before you get carried away with these incredible pics: I still don\u2019t recommend staying in Krabi or Ao Nang. They\u2019re really overdeveloped, haven\u2019t been taken care of and, frankly, the food and service sucks. But there are pretty day trips from there\u2026 but you could take those same day trips based out of somewhere far less trashed out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ok \u2013 so on to the beautiful pictures to make you all jealous while you\u2019re bundled up in winter clothes!<\/p>\n

\"Sunset<\/a><\/p>\n

Our first night we got to enjoy the most beautiful sunset I think I\u2019ve ever seen, just off Ao Nang beach. Choosing which pictures to post for this is really hard \u2013 and really they don\u2019t even begin to capture it!<\/p>\n\n

The next day we went on the \u201cFive Island Tour\u201d on a longtail boat.<\/p>\n

\"Longtail<\/a><\/p>\n

We started off at Railay Beach \u2013 the perfect \u201cplay in the water\u201d beach. It\u2019s not an island, but you do have to take a boat to get there because it\u2019s cut off from any road due to the rock formations.<\/p>\n

\"Cave<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Railay<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s known for it\u2019s rock climbing and a cave that you can only get to in low tide.<\/p>\n\n

Then went to Poda Island<\/p>\n

\"Poda<\/a> \"Poda<\/a><\/p>\n\n

Then we stopped at a couple spots to snorkel. There were a ton of fish, but it didn\u2019t have the coral or variety we were hoping for. But it did remind us how we had wanted to learn to Scuba drive (\u2026 foreshadowing for future blog post<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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Then we went to Chicken Island\u2026 can you see why it\u2019s named that? The couple Americans on the boat agreed Turkey Island would be better, but they don\u2019t really have turkeys in Thailand.<\/p>\n

\"Chicken<\/a><\/p>\n

Chicken Island is attached to a few other small islands at low tide by giant sandbars that, so you can basically walk between them. So of course we did\u2026\u00a0Childhood flashback to Land Before Time and the land bridge to The Great Valley\u2026 except our land bridge took us to the only island where you could buy beer! Didn\u2019t exactly save us from extinction, but we were excited nonetheless!<\/p>\n\n

We enjoyed swimming around and playing on the islands the rest of the afternoon.<\/p>\n