Thailand - To Ao Nang

Day 6

13.12.2009 - 13.12.2009
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Ao Nang turned out to be a very popular beach resort town on the mainland just next door to Krabi. Lots more tourists here, the streets remained busy till well into the evening. The trip was a minibus ride (including 2 car ferries) for around 2 hours. Was interesting to see an elephant, a very large elephant being transported on the back of a small truck across the ferry. Arrived in Krabi and caught the local bus (a bigger ute) down to Ao Nang. There are loads of guest houses scattered around town so it was pretty easy to find a decent place (Jinda House) to stay for a couple of nights.

With a free afternoon we grabbed a scooter and went exploring, first abound town, then a bit further a field. There are some wonderful long flat beaches around Ao Nang, when the tide is out you can walk from the beach out to small rocky islands. The limestone cliffs are everywhere and amazing. Sheer faces rise up from nowhere then fall away just as spectacularly. Its an odd landscape. We followed a couple of touristy looking signs through the rubber tree plantations and stumbled across a very new nature walk - a boardwalk set above a crystal clear stream. When we arrived it was hot, it was so tempting to just jump right in. The only other people there were couples taking corny pictures of each other (with some serious camera equipment), not that we’d do anything like that, no. It was a really nice spot though, a beautiful stream rolling down out of the mountains and further down into a mangrove system. By the time we left, it looked like rain, so back on the scooter and into town. Dinner, a stroll around town, book in a tour to James Bond island tomorrow, then off to bed.

Off Ao Nang Beach