Day-2:
Even though we hit the bed early last night, had very little or no sleep. Son had slight fever and gave him Crocin syrup before the sleep. I was worried about upcoming boat tour and keep checking his condition all the through the night. Luckily there was no recurrence of fever. I woke up from the bed at 6.30 AM and started packing for the day tour. By 8 AM we are in restaurant and finished quick 15 minutes breakfast. In no time we are in the lobby waiting for tour pick-up.
Swissotel Lobby
Toyota van came at 8.15AM and headed for pier. After one hour drive we reached and waited for another 30 minutes for remaining tour participants to join us.
It was around 9.45 AM and we are ready for boarding.
Headed to Phang Nga bay
Our first stop was a Lawa island where we spent some 45 minutes playing on the pristine beach.
Second stop was the famous James bond island, where the movie “The Man with the Golden Gun” was shot.
I read lot of bad reviews about this place being untidy and crowded. Fortunately we were first batch of people to arrive on that day, another reason could be yesterday’s cloud burst.
We spent good 40 minutes roaming around the island and clicking pictures.
It was still cloudy and sun has not come out of the clouds yet. My pictures are not doing justice for the beautiful surroundings.
Departed from James bond island
There were lot of beautiful hills around.
Our next activity is canoeing. After couple of minutes drive, we started spotting huge island mountains.
Suddenly we spotted many little canoe's and my kid is super exited.
This is the canoe station/ship from where we are about to launch our adventure.
My son with our tour guide
We are going to pass through this natural tunnel
Here is the floating coconut shop. He would do good business on a hot sunny day.
Another view of the natural tunnel
We spent good 30 minutes in canoeing and returned to the base station. We started feeling really hungry due to fruits only breakfast.
Our guide announced that next stop is indeed lunch @
Koh Panyee: The floating village.
In less than 20 minutes we spotted the village, which is really on stilts.
Chain of restaurants serving lunch (we had lunch @ third building with blue color roof from left)
Having lunch @ Panyee Restaurant. Again I had just fruits for lunch. There is hardly anything for vegetarians.
My kids shoes gone kaput and he want new ones immediately. So bought new ones in shopping center, which is attached to the restaurant.
We three in the backdrop of Koh Panyee
Our next stop is ice cream cave. This is how it looked when approaching.
It’s completely dark inside and we were given torch lights to explore the cave. True to it’s name, this is what we spotted
There are lots of bats in the cave and this is other end of cave.
A parting shot of the cave with flash
Tour experience is very good and they served unlimited water, fresh cut fruits and bottled juices on board. We reached back pier by 3.30 PM. We said bye bye to fellow tourists and arrived back at hotel by 4.30 PM. It was an amazing day tour and strongly recommend.
We ventured out around 5.30 PM from hotel and took a tuk- tuk (Auto in Thailand with 4 wheels) to Patong beach for 300 THB. We roamed on famous Bangla road for some time and had dinner at Navarang Mahal. They served good Indian food at reasonable price and most importantly my son liked it. Purchased ferry ticket to Phi Phi Island for all @900 THB including pick-up from hotel. We reached back hotel around 9.30PM and hit the bed immediately.