September 24th, 2005 - Ko Phi Phi
Me on the beach
Things here are really good. I am on the island of koh phi phi right now, which is 1.5hrs by boat from Krabi- on the west coast of Thailand.
This place is lovely. The water is green, there are mountains made of limestone, the sand is silky and white. we are going on a snorkelling trip tommorrow which i am excited about, we get to go as well to the beach where they filmed the movie 'the beach'. There is one down side of this island though, and it is that it was hit very hard by the tsunami. You can still see the destruction everywhere. i can only imagine how beautiful it would have been before the tsunami. We are stayin in a guest house about 200m from the beach.
Only the top floor has rooms for rent because they are still renovating from the tsunami. The water was 10m high- went to the ceiling of the first floor. They clean the beach of this everyday- but if you go in the morning you can see it. Loads and loads of garbage gets washed in everyday. Sandles, clothes, bottles, lighters, you name it. You can see as well where buildings used to stand and a lot of places are still closed. It will be a couple years until this place is back to normal i think.
I am travelling with two lovely english girls at the moment- from manchester. There are good fun and we get on really well. Gonna spend a week here probably and then down onto malaysia. hope your all well xxx rachel |