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We have driven to Krabi from Phuket
many times over the last 5 years and its a lovely drive of about 180 kilometers.
Phang Nga town is in a valley among huge rocky limestone mountains
covered with greenery and the entrance to town is very pretty with
parks and gardens.
From Phang Nga town we decided to go back a bit to the turnoff to Phang Nga
Pier, soon we are driving past mangroves, then someone runs out onto
the road and stops us, my god, he is trying to sell us a tour to
James Bond Island (rock) a few meters down the road and another one
runs out and stops us, same thing. Gary has had enough, he has that look in his eyes that says Road Kill coming up, so we turn around and head back to the main road. I’m sure if we had kept going to the end of the road to the pier we could have gone to James Bond Island (rock) nearly for free with a set of steak knives thrown in.
Off we go again, we are on the Krabi road, it’s a great scenic drive through lots of little villages, and there are lots of stalls set up on the road selling food. One little village called Ban Klang had numerous stalls near the road cooking chickens on a rotisserie and each stall had a cord with a light bulb, some of the lights were on, we figured this was to let passing traffic know that the chickens were cooked and ready to buy.
The beaches around Krabi are so pretty and quiet, no crowds, no jet skis, parasails or sun lounges on the beaches, no tailors or tuk tuks annoying you - heaven.
I
do not have much info on shopping or nightlife on these pages.
Everything is available here, same as Phuket but on a much smaller
scale.
Its fantastic driving yourself to different places, each trip we
average just over 5000 kilometers.
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