today we explored to krabi area. krabi is famous for having huge limestone cliffs and beautiful scenic views. we tried to rent scooters this morning, but unfortunately we were only able to get 2, instead of the 3 that we would need for the 7 of us. now that we are getting more and more adventurous on the scooters, we started riding them w/ 3 people on a scooter. totally crazy! but we’ve seen the thai people fit like 4 or 5 people on one, so we figure we should be ok. heh.
we went to 2 national parks today. both were pretty cool. the first one had several caves to explore. the caves were pretty cool, and it was dope cause there were hella monkeys running around everywhere. the monkeys were so funny! they would play w/ each other, hop around, and try to steal food from people.
there were a lot of thai people selling food in the park, so we had a little picnic in the park by one of the caves. the food was good, although we found a bunch of chicken claws in our fried chicken. i guess the people here dont discriminate on what parts of the chicken they eat. at one point, one of the more daring monkeys started approaching us to get some food. we tried to shoo it away by stomping our feet and yelling, but it would just bare it’s fangs at us. i’ve never seen a monkey be this ferocious! then the monkey makes a run for our little area… we all jump up, the girls in our group start screaming and the monkey, with a truly evil look on it’s face, jumps on our food and starts grabbing stuff. at this point one of the food vendors runs up w/ a slingshot and starts shooting at the monkey! the monkey runs off and then the vendor gave the slingshot to us. from then on, whenever we even pointed the slingshot at the monkeys, they would scurry off. i guess they have learned to be afraid of them. heh.
the second national park was cool too. we took a boat thru these mangroves of banyan trees. it was a nice mellow boat ride and we got to see a lot of cool cliffs and finally, the boat swam under this awesome cave/cliff archway. lots of great scenery.
later that night, after hanging out at the hotel and discussing the merits of the welfare system (go figure), we went out to eat and had one of the better meals we’ve had in a bit…
-v
“we started riding them w/ 3 people on a scooter. totally crazy! but we’ve seen the thai people fit like 4 or 5 people on one, so we figure we should be ok.”
Vlad, do you remenber that conversation we had , how i said that a week of two into the trip you will no regards for personal safety and feel invincible. Well it looks like you are there.
-joey
Hahaha. Stupid monkeys. The slingshot thing sounds fun… I wanna go to Thailand and bust some Bart Simpson style monkey control! I’ll take those buggers out! heh
I was just reading random journals and came across yours. Now I’m dieing to go explore Thailand! Hope the rest of your trip ends up being as exciting as it has been so far.
~kim
dude, TOTALLY! it’s really true.. pretty much you think nothing bad can happen to you after a while. i’m down to undertake anything!
-v
thailand is the best! i thought it would be a blast before i came here, but its even better than i expected. check it out!
-v