SNUBA at Koh Racha

We went SNUBAing at Koh Racha. It was the BEST experience ever! We have never scubaed, and in fact, only went snorkeling a few days ago at the Simba trip, so we were very new. But it was so much fun! SNUBAing is pretty much like scubaing, except your tank is floating on the surface, and you are connected by your air tube.

So that way, you have more freedom of movement, and perfect for beginners. We saw so many things! We even fed the fish bananas! It was so much fun! Definitely a recommendation.












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Phang Nga Bay

We also took a daytrip with Simba to Phang Nga Bay. It was also very cool, we went into a cave, went sea kayaking, and had lunch and toured a village built on stilts. We also visited James Bond island, which was full of tourists. We ended with a nice island with gorgeous white sand beaches to relax and rewind.










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Koh Phi Phi

Koh Phi Phi, the infamous Maya Bay (from The Beach). Gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. Yes, it was very very touristy, but it was still absolutely beautiful there. The cleanest, bluest waters ever, the soft white sands, the islands. It was wonderful.

We went to Koh Phi Phi through a tour from Simba Sea Trips. HIGHLY recommended. They took us to a lot of different islands, offered us snorkeling equipment, fed us a yummy lunch, and also had tons of fresh fruit and drinks for us the entire day. It was awesome.










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Koh Yao Noi

After Chiang Mai, we headed to Koh Yao Noi. This was a small fishing island off the coast of Phuket, but it's very untouristy - in fact, while we were there, sometimes we were the only people in certain restaurants, and walking around, there wasn't many tourists. It was a mainly backpacker type travelers here, because it's mostly bungalows. The beach was nice during high tide, but it was very rocky/muddy during low tide. Also, there was a ton of mosquitoes, but still, the peace and quiet was nice, and the scenery and having almost the whole beach to yourself. Priceless.















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Mudfest

So last weekend we went to Mudfest at Daecheon beach, we went with AdventureKorea.

And wow, Saturday morning was a big adventure. We had to meet up in Seoul at 8am for the AK buses, so we headed to our local bus stop at 6, but when it didn't arrive by 6:20, we were worried, because our bus from Anseong to Seoul was at 6:40. By 6:25, the local bus on our side still wasn't here, although the other side had 2 buses already, and no taxis either since our taxi stand was empty as well. And suddenly this lone taxi drives down the road so we flagged him down, and we tried to make it to the bus terminal but we weren't going to, since it was already almost 6:45 by the time we got there. So on the way we picked up our friend, and we made the decision if we should just cab it to the Seoul, since it wouldn't be feasible to wait for another bus to Seoul and still make it to the AK buses in Seoul.

So we took a taxi all the way to Seoul, and together spent like 90k. Ha! We spent like 70 usd on a taxi just to make it because of all this stupid local buses won't run like it's supposed to.

And then we got to the place in Seoul we were supposed to meet the buses, it was super confusing where it is, so we walked and ran around in circles from one place to another until we FINALLY found the spot. What a morning! And it was only 8:10am by then.

The rest of the weekend was okay. First we stopped at a Mud Beach at around 2 or so, and we stripped to our bathing suits, got some military gear, and headed to the mud flats. We played a little bit in the mud, and there was a race as well, but we didn't even finish it. It was VERY windy and the mud flats were full of little shells, and we even found a nice one to take home.












After the mudflats we headed to our accomodation, which was a minbak. It was an okay place, a small room with one blanket and pillow each, and a small bathroom. It'll do though. We fit 4 of us in the room reasonably well, but I don't know how some of the other people who had 5 in a room could do that. But anyway...

It was starting to rain and gust wind that evening, so we didn't really do too much. We walked around a bit, got a big pot of seafood noodles for dinner (which was delish), and just explored, but then since it was so windy and so rainy we just decided to stay in and play some games.










On Sunday we awoke to sun, so we headed down to the sand beach. We walked along the beach, stepped our feet into the water, and just enjoyed the nice weather. It wasn't too crowded in the morning, but as the day went on, it got very crowded, so I was glad we got to enjoy the beach when it wasn't as crowded.








Behind the beach there was a row of streets, filled with very similar restaurants. Every restaurant seem to have tanks of seafood swimming around, and we wonder how some of them make more money than others since it was ton of the same kind of restaurants everywhere. At the actual mud area, there was some mud slides, mud jail, other games etc. I do sort of wish I did more mudding, but on Saturday my bikini strap broke (I had a shirt on top, thank god, when that happened) so I wasn't able to do much mudding around, but there was always next year!

The rest of the day we sat in the shaded grass areas behind the beach and just relaxed. For lunch we found a Korean restaurant that actually didn't have any foreigners in it, and had some bulgogi soup.

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