KRABI

Chris at a thai restaurant down the street

After Siem Reap, The Trip Heard Round The World continues to a small beach town in Thailand: Krabi. Although my mother has been very CRABBY because she is disappointed about the town, Chris & I have enjoyed it. 

GETTING TO THE MORNING MINIHOUSE
We are staying in a nice little hotel, the Morning Minihouse, that certainly lives up to its name (although my bed is very hard). After our flight, neither phones cell signal was working, so we had a hard time getting our tuktuk driver directions for the first minutes of that trip. It was nighttime when we got there, so we went out to dinner, and here's how we did.

* OPTION 1: FULLY BOOKED
* OPTION 2: CLOSED ON MONDAY (It was Monday)
* OPTION 3: CLOSED
* OPTION 4: NO VEGETARIAN OPTIONS
* OPTION 5: OUT OF BUSINESS
* OPTION 6: OPEN

The Eastern Nice Beach

After, we were tired from walking to 6 different restaurants, and spent the rest of the 
evening relaxing.

LEISURELY ACTIVITIES
Most days we spent like this
7:30 Wake up
8:00-12:30 do school work, job work, be bored, or in most cases, all 3
1:00 eat lunch (we recommend the restaurants Govindas vegetarian, and Namaste curry)

About to start a long day of rock climbing

2:00-4:30 go to the beach
5:00-7:00 finish work, and read
7:30 eat dinner
8:45-10:30 hang out
11:00 bedtime

There are 2 nice beaches and a bad one in the middle, as Chris explained, and we usually went to the nearest nice one. We walk to our activities most of the time, while playing Pokémon Go (I'm sure you've heard of it.) The waves aren't good for surfing, and the water's too sandy for snorkeling most of the time, although there are millions of seashells on the nice beach (that we think is to the west), but the shells are smaller the farther east you get.

TRIPS
We took 2 trips in Krabi.

Penis Caves

The rock climbing trip was fun, although Jen didn't go. We got there by van, and then by boat. We spent until lunch climbing, (the best I could do there was 5-8 A, and Chris did a 5-9.) We got lunch at a place called Mom's Kitchen. The food was great, but there was a bug in my pad thai. After, we went to the beach and a place called the Penis Caves, where fishermen left statues of penises as offerings. Finally, we did some repelling, and went home after a long, but awesome day.
On our snorkeling trip, we went to 3 places:

1: We went to the same penis cave beach to pick other people up.

Careful!

We call it The Rooster Rock

Mount Flatchelor

Penis Cave Beach

Fish

Good modo

See?

Lowering down

Climbing the 5-8

Penis Cave Beach

Repelling down the cliff

2: A reef that was about 9 feet deep, had sharp rocks, but the coral was in bad shape. I got a headache from a rock climbing-related injury, and then cut my foot, and had to return to the boat
3: A sandbar and beach island that I could've really enjoyed had I taken a painkiller, but instead, I mostly lay down on the beach and missed out on the fun.

After, we went back to the penis cave beach to watch a beautiful sunset. My headache was wearing off, so we all enjoyed it! Then in the dark, off the beach, we put our snorkels on, and saw bioluminescent plankton, which was really cool. It was like a bunch of tiny flashlights in the water, and when you rubbed your hands together, you made 100 white sparks. Too soon, we were on the boat, heading home