Staying the night at Phi Phi island was weird - I had expected it to be an almost deserted place with just a few bungalows on the beach... Instead, it's a bustling resort town, which seems to have recovered quite well after being hit hard by the tsunami a few years ago. There are, however, absolutely no cars on the island, which was cool to see. The problem continued to be the weather - by the time we arrived on the island at around 6PM, it was pouring rain.
So, early the next morning, I figured the best way to avoid the rain was to get under water. This is where it felt surreal as we were right back to the very same spot where I had gone snorkeling from Phuket just a couple of months ago... which incidentally got this whole diving thing started. The diving wasn't quite as specacular as Fiji or Borneo, but we did see a leopard shark (it really is spotted like a leopard) - in fact we saw it in a distance once, then a few minutes later, it came back to give us a better look. Later also saw a big fat Black tip reef shark...
After, it was back on the boat for Krabi, and an overnight bus to Bangkok, where, once again, I actually knew where I was going! The bus trip was only memorable for the two terrible movies we saw: D-Wars (the worst movie I have ever seen) and Urban Justice, a Steven Seagal/Eddie Griffin vehicle, which was simply bad... Seagal just doesn't pull the badass off nearly as well now that he's old and chubby!
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