The long tail boats there are like the taxis of this part of Thailand. When we'd go places, like Railay Beach, even though it's not an island, you can't take a car to the part of the peninsula so you have to boat a lot of places and they were quite cheap. Most of my crew is on the right but I don't know the two guys in the front on the left.
We later booked a tour for Phang Nga Bay. This one is a little farther from Krabi so most tours typically leave from Phuket. This one had the Samet Nangshe viewpoint, which I'll post later, but I scoured the internet trying to find specific tours that would hit that one. Very, very difficult finding the tours from Krabi. Anyway, we had just been eating dinner in Krabi and while waiting for our food, I went to a booth that had information on tours and I worked out with a woman being able to do a tour of Phang Nga Bay that would include going to that viewpoint. It was crazy because for the nine of us, it was only something like $300 for all day. It required us getting picked up early in the morning and driving almost all the way to Phuket before getting on the boat. My dad had really wanted to go here ever since he had seen Man With The Golden Gun and my wife really wanted to see the viewpoint (as did I) and the viewpoint really isn't a normal part of any typical tours.
You start off in a mangrove and this is entering Phang Nga Bay.
This is James Bond Island from Man With The Golden Gun. This place gets totally packed and everyone's reviews are that it's a huge tourist trap with a million people. What I found was interesting is that there were very few American tourists that we saw. It was mostly people from Europe or Asia, occasionally Australia, and very few people coming from later time zones. This meant we would try to go out early whereas many people are adjusting to getting up earlier. Since I booked everything for early in the morning, we beat all the crowds, and when we arrived on James Bond Island, we were quite literally the only people there.
Our last stop of the tour, they took us up to the view point of the entire bay.
This is the Samet Nangshe Viewpoint.
Back at the AirBnb, this is two of our kids living their best lives.
We had plans to go to Khao Sok National Park, which looks incredible and people rave about and there are very few people there. But, alas, we had some issues. Our second to youngest split his knee open severely when he jumped into a small part of the pool that had jagged tile. It was cut open about three inches long and was gaping open, down the the patellar tendon. We ended up at a local urgent care that was able to close him up, but it effective concluded the adventure part of our trip.
We then ended up going to an elephant sanctuary and fed the elephants, but only my wife and three of our kids were interested in going. Not sure why everyone else didn't.
The one closest to the camera is the one that split his knee open. We had a great time here and the next day we returned with our other two kids and my parents.
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We later booked a tour for Phang Nga Bay. This one is a little farther from Krabi so most tours typically leave from Phuket. This one had the Samet Nangshe viewpoint, which I'll post later, but I scoured the internet trying to find specific tours that would hit that one. Very, very difficult finding the tours from Krabi. Anyway, we had just been eating dinner in Krabi and while waiting for our food, I went to a booth that had information on tours and I worked out with a woman being able to do a tour of Phang Nga Bay that would include going to that viewpoint. It was crazy because for the nine of us, it was only something like $300 for all day. It required us getting picked up early in the morning and driving almost all the way to Phuket before getting on the boat. My dad had really wanted to go here ever since he had seen Man With The Golden Gun and my wife really wanted to see the viewpoint (as did I) and the viewpoint really isn't a normal part of any typical tours.
You start off in a mangrove and this is entering Phang Nga Bay.
This is James Bond Island from Man With The Golden Gun. This place gets totally packed and everyone's reviews are that it's a huge tourist trap with a million people. What I found was interesting is that there were very few American tourists that we saw. It was mostly people from Europe or Asia, occasionally Australia, and very few people coming from later time zones. This meant we would try to go out early whereas many people are adjusting to getting up earlier. Since I booked everything for early in the morning, we beat all the crowds, and when we arrived on James Bond Island, we were quite literally the only people there.
Our last stop of the tour, they took us up to the view point of the entire bay.
This is the Samet Nangshe Viewpoint.
Back at the AirBnb, this is two of our kids living their best lives.
We had plans to go to Khao Sok National Park, which looks incredible and people rave about and there are very few people there. But, alas, we had some issues. Our second to youngest split his knee open severely when he jumped into a small part of the pool that had jagged tile. It was cut open about three inches long and was gaping open, down the the patellar tendon. We ended up at a local urgent care that was able to close him up, but it effective concluded the adventure part of our trip.
We then ended up going to an elephant sanctuary and fed the elephants, but only my wife and three of our kids were interested in going. Not sure why everyone else didn't.
The one closest to the camera is the one that split his knee open. We had a great time here and the next day we returned with our other two kids and my parents.
Continued below...
