ï»¿{"id":254,"date":"2001-07-19T11:29:45","date_gmt":"2001-07-19T09:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/?p=254"},"modified":"2012-01-20T14:11:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T12:41:26","slug":"ko-phi-phi-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/2001\/07\/19\/ko-phi-phi-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Ko Phi Phi, The beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <div class=\"ngg-gallery-singlepic-image ngg-left\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\n\t\t        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-content\/gallery\/thailand\/ko_phi_phi.jpg\"\n           title=\"Ko Phi Phi, The Beach\"\n           data-src=\"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-content\/gallery\/thailand\/ko_phi_phi.jpg\"\n           data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-content\/gallery\/thailand\/thumbs\/thumbs_ko_phi_phi.jpg\"\n           data-image-id=\"1820\"\n           data-title=\"Ko Phi Phi, The Beach\"\n           data-description=\"Ko Phi Phi, The Beach\"\n           target='_self'\n\t\t\tclass=\"shutterset_943194b3f1749e8075c4dc7bc1b1feb1\">\n            <img class=\"ngg-singlepic\"\n                 src=\"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-content\/gallery\/thailand\/cache\/ko_phi_phi.jpg-nggid041820-ngg0dyn-320x240x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n                 alt=\"Ko Phi Phi, The Beach\"\n                 title=\"Ko Phi Phi, The Beach\"\n\t\t\t\t                    width=\"320\" \t\t\t\t            \/>\n        <\/a>\n\t\t    <\/div>\n\t\tAfter a last walk on the beach of Ao Nang I went back to Krabi and took the ferry to Ko Phi Phi at 2:00 pm.<br \/>\nAfter my arrival on Ko Phi Phi I took a taxiboat to &#8220;Long Beach&#8221; . Not knowing what to do I decided to walk back to the main village. It took me about half an hour to get there (10 minutes if you take the boat.). It&#8217;s just a small path and you even have to do some &#8220;climbing&#8221; (sort of&#8230;). I stayed in the village for about 4 hours, had dinner and watched the movie &#8220;The Beach&#8221;. After that I had to walk back to Long Beach, which turned out to be a real adventure. I left my flashlight at the bungalow, and when I started to walk back it has already been dark. I was hardly able to find the road, and sometimes I just bumped into a tree or a stone. It took me nearly 1,5 hours to make my way back&#8230;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>18th of July<br \/>\nThe 13th day of my trip, which I think was the best day so far (right 13 is my lucky number!!)<\/p>\n<p>I decided to join a snorkelling group to Ko Phi Phi Le. Perhaps some of you know that parts of the movie &#8220;The Beach&#8221; were filmed at Maya Bay on Ko Phi Phi Le. (There are two islands: Ko Phi Phi Don, which is where all tourists stay, and Ko Phi Phi Le, which is a national park). Usually, all the tours start at 9:00 am, but I took the one which started at 12:00 am.<br \/>\nWe where a small group of six persons and Andrew, our guide. Snorkelling around Ko Phi Phi Le is amazing: You see a lot of fishes and different corals. Usually Maya Bay is crowded with boats, but when we got there it was just us and &#8220;The Beach&#8221;. I was even able to see sharks for the first time in my life. A big female and a little baby. They are not dangerous at all (but they DO look dangerous).<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately Ko Phi Phi gets more and more crowded these days, and some of the tourists just don&#8217;t care about rubbish and pollution on the island. If you go to Ko Phi Phi you will understand what I&#8217;m talking about.<\/p>\n<p>I think that&#8217;s really sad. But there are also people who care about the island. Like Andrew, our guide. He doesn&#8217;t use plastic bottles or plastic bags. I think that&#8217;s very important on an island, cause every plastic bottle, every plastic-bag, even every can has to be removed from an island. And that&#8217;s expensive and someone has to pay for it. The best thing is to AVOID rubbish. Use your own bottle and bring your own cotton-bag.<\/p>\n<p>19th of July<br \/>\nMy last day on Ko Phi Phi. I had to take the ferry at 1:30 pm back to Krabi, to get on a Bus to Bangkok. What&#8217;s next? I meet up with my travel-mate Martin in Bangkok and then we are going to Chang Mai!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a last walk on the beach of Ao Nang I went back to Krabi and took the ferry to Ko Phi Phi at 2:00 pm. After my arrival on Ko Phi Phi I took a taxiboat to &#8220;Long Beach&#8221; . Not knowing what to do I decided to walk back to the main village. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/2001\/07\/19\/ko-phi-phi-the-beach\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ko Phi Phi, The beach&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-backpacking","category-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}