Railay Firedancing

Feeling quite a lot better this morning, we decided it was time to venture to Railay (or Rai Leh), an isolated beach area a boat ride away from Krabi. We went to the long-tail boat harbour at 11am and had to wait until there were 6 passengers, about 90 minutes. But it was nice to just sit and watch the world go by.

Captain

On our longtail boat Krabi to Railay

Charly struggling up the steps to our bungalow

We took the boat along the coast and came up to East Railay with amazing limestone cliffs surrounding a very mediocre beach.

Nice view from beach

We disembarked and took a walk along to the end and up some steep steps to find Railay Garden View resort. Chris had already researched and found this place on the web with great reviews. Chris went to have a look and the chalets were nice but they wanted 600Baht (£12) a night for them. Chris, using his best skills, managed to negotiate them down to 350Baht (£7) which was within our budget.

Beach at low tide

Mudflats and mangroves

Long Tail Boats on East Railay

Very scenic

Cliffs around the Beach at East Railay

Interesting new boat?!

High tide

An American couple who also took a chalet joined us and we all went out later for dinner and to watch the 11.30pm fire dance that actually started at 1.30am.