today i decided to go to kho phiphi, a small island off the coast of phuket. according to my guidebook i needed to go to the pier in krabi to take the ferry there. so i catch the first taxi i see and ask them to take me to the boat to kho phi phi. there’s like 4 people driving the taxi, and only one of them barely speaks english. there seems to be some serious confusion when i tell them where i want to go, but finally we’re off. we end up in some totally random place where some other people tell us we can not rent a boat there. then the taxi driver tells me they can take me to krabi… but only for 1000B (25$) huh?<\/p>\n
finally i figure out what the deal is. krabi is not the region that i’m in as i thought… it’s actually a completely different city about 75 miles away from phang-nga. now i’m at a loss as to what to do and have no idea how much it would cost to go there other than this taxi. so i ask them to take me for 800B and they agree. now, 20$ may not seem like a lot of money for a 75 mile cab ride, but here that is an insane amount of money. so as we’re driving i look in my guidebook… and realize that there are buses that go from phang-nga to krabi for only 36B (95 cents).CRAP. so i try to explain to the taxi person that now i dont want to go to krabi, and that i want them to take me back to town. of course, due to the english barrier, my message does not get across.<\/p>\n
so now we’re off to krabi. this whole family is in the cab (the driver is the dad, and there’s 3 other kids), and then we stop to go pick up the mom from an illegal gambling casino. so, i definitely felt like i had wasted a lot of money, but the cab ride was kind of fun, with the one english speaking girl trying to show me the sights along the way. she even gave me a good luck charm and we toured the tiger temple on the way.<\/p>\n
now i’m in krabi. i went to a night market here and decided i’d buy some lychee fruit. i didn’t really know how much half a kilo of fruit would be, so now i have TONS of fruit. what am i gonna do w\/ it all?<\/p>\n
so basically, my day has been filled w\/ mistakes, misunderstandings, and mishaps. yet, it’s definitely all been an adventure. luckily, thailand is so cheap that even though i wasted money on the taxi ride, and on the fruit, really i only lost $20.25 altogether.<\/p>\n
oh yeah. did i mention that thailand bootlegs tons of movies illegally? right now i’m watching “two towers” in the internet cafe as i type this.<\/p>\n
-v<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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