Monday, December 25, 2006

Monkey Boy Meets Monkey Girl on Limestone Cliffs

Sunday morning (Christmas Eve) started with a delicious breakfast of fried eggs, toast, oj and thai coffee. We then shared a longtail boat with a bunch locals carrying supplies from Au Nang for Railay (beer, soda, bread, water, rice, etc). The trip was as scenic as ever in the morning sun and quite a unique experience! The next four hours were spent scaling the limstone towers (at least they felt like towers) near the Diamond Caves on Railay East. We did four climbs of varying heights, the last of which killed us! We met several tourists from all over the world, the most interesting of whom was Nora, an eight year old girl from Norway. She was fearless and on her second climb, she put our climbing skills to shame! Our teacher Champ, was a young Thai from Bangkok who spoke broken English but was dope nonetheless. The afternoon ended with a delicious lunch at Ayavadee Resort of papaya and pineapple shakes, thai seafood curry with rice and fish sandwich. We left Au Nang at 3:30 on a ferry headed back to Phuket...

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