The trip around the neighborhood took place on Thursday; the hotel provides a free ride to Ao Nang beach at 1pm every day, thus the first image is from there. Heavily overpopulated with western tourists (or "members" of KFC, depending how you look at it :P); nevertheless, a lovely place to swim (but not nearly as beautiful as some of the beaches/islands we got to see on the following day) and sunbathe, dine out and shop for all kinds of junk. From Ao Nang we took a long-tail boat to West Railay Bay - but for some reason the boat stopped at Ao Ton Sai beach (which is just before Railay) and we, of course, thought that was the end destination. Ton Sai is the third & fourth image. Only after the boat took off with 2 passengers left in it, it dawned on us that - ooops - this is not where we wanted to be. But we got a small adventure out of it anyway. Stayed put for an hour or so - love swimming :)
Went to inquire at the tourist information post how to get to West Railay - it turned out that its possible to walk there - just at the end of the beach there is a path leading across the rock - and at Railay you are! 15 min of hike, or so they said. Well, well - who are we if not super hikers/rock climbers... except the fact that I wore flip-flops... but I was reassured I could do the path barefooted. Off we go, then. The small climb was fun, there even were ropes laid out in certain places; it left as soaking wet and dirty (a picture of the path and Railay Bay on the next post).
The last image is of East Railay Bay. It takes only about 5 minutes to walk across the peninsula.
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