On Ko Lanta we tried to find a cheap transfer to our next destination: Ko Libong.

The guy of the cheapest agency we found, got a bit confused and communication was not the easiest but after some changes to our plan, we went with a taxi to the mainland and then all the way direction Ko Libong.

On the ferry, there was a Thai very proud of how much fruits he was able to load on his pickup truck. He told me it was three tons. Maybe it was a translation mistake because three tons of fruits! It would be ridiculous. But on the other hand, that truck looked absolutely loaded. Even with huge leaf spring packs.

After the taxi, we took a short ride with a long tail boat and …

… arrived at our beach.

Especially on high tide, it was a wonderful and calm beach and our accommodation was very nice as well.

The last funny swimming goggles photo for our collection.

We gathered some other tourists in a big group and did a super nice snorkeling trip to a group of isolated, remote islands.

The trip took some time, …

… but then we arrived, …

… and Racki went off for her first proper snorkeling experience.

We had a good time.

The water was beautiful.

And although there were other tourists groups around, it was never too crowded.

After hanging around, we had …

… a snack and went back.

Everybody was very happy with the trip and in the end some had seen a shark, some a stingray, and some a sea turtle.

Nice moon eclipse at the beach.

In contrast to Ko Lanta, Ko Libong was very calm and peaceful. Being closer to Malaysia, more locals were Muslims. Alcohol was less present, but available, and even Marijuana which has been really everywhere on the other islands, was very less around.

We enjoyed this calmness a lot.

And had such a good time together.

The trash had to get sorted and then driven back to the mainland. No clue what they were doing with it then, but the islands were all very clean.

And after some days on Ko Libong, we took a speedboat to our next destinations: Michele went to another small island and Racki and I continued to our final Thai climbing destination: Tonsai!

We picked up Michele, one of my best friends from Germany at the Krabi Airport and went for a snack at the night market: Mango with sticky rice and coconut sauce!

All these different things to try… During our time in Malaysia and Thailand, I ate meat again just to be able to try different things, but still most of my food was vegetarian. Racki had no problems resisting and sticked to her decades-long vegetarianism.

Nice road shop.

Our accommodation for the night had some funny feature: Toilet paper came out of this camera.

Our view from our room. But the receptionist was very nice, friendly, and helpful.

Racki found a super beautiful, handmade dress in the small shop of an extortionary cute women.

Almost the same hair cuts.

And off we went with our first ferry boat.

Already seeing the rocks of the world-famous climbing areas Tonsai and Railey in the distance.

The first long tail boat heading for Ko Pu.

On Ko Pu we found our first scooter taxi.

The scooter had a hard time with the four of us and all the luggage, but the driver was all positive that it would make it.

We made it to our first bungalow resort but were quite confused because the location of the resort was far from what they had advertised on booking.com Instead of a pretty remote beach, it was on the main road. We contacted the resort and talked to the receptionists about that but quickly surrendered.

Nevertheless, we made the best out of it and found a nice spot at the beach.

And a nice cocktail bar.

And our first hippie-style bar. I love these bars with their pretty individual construction-style.

One day, we rented scooters and drove the the trailhead of a nice hike to a small hilltop to have a view over Ko Pu.

The hike was pretty nice and some parts were quite steep. Here it is on komoot.com.

On the way, we met another tourist who had decided to do that hike barefoot. Not being very experienced with going barefoot, there might been some Marijuana involved in his decision.

But we made it all to the top.

And back down.

We took our scooters around the island and found lots of nice places.

An nice evening with cocktails of questionable ingredients and quality but a lot of fun.

Michele and I practiced a lot with my guitar.

And my favorite party night in the Rock Bar.

The owner of the Rock Bar and his reggae band played longer than four hours and we were dancing all the time. It was awesome and especially their interpretation of the songs was super funny and uplifting.

This nice local was all the time dancing with a winter hat.

Michele bought some sexy swimming goggles.

And then it was time for boarding the ferry to the next island. On the way, we passed this well parked sailing boat.