Koh Mook

After looking at three thousand islands, and not seeing it clearly, some are very expensive, others overcrowded, contrary opinions on the net … we are guided by the word of a couple at the Krabi town station … We are going to Koh Mook !! !!

To get to Koh Mook you have to go by bus to Trang (3 hours, 90 Baths / person), go to the port by taxi and take a ferry to the island (250 Baths / person taxi + ferry), although I am convinced that there is a cheaper formula. At Trang we arrived at night, so we stayed for 200 double baths. From the bus station we walked to the center of the city … sometimes the pot goes away, 4 km + mochilón … we call it “our exercise of the day” hehehehe …: D, everything to avoid a taxi …

We arrived at Koh Mook, a beautiful island, with tourism but still quite wild, composed mostly by jungle, where to find poisonous snakes or spiders like a fist anywhere, beautiful! There is the beach of the jetty that goes to the beach of the resort Sibalai, and Charlie’s beach (name of a resort). There are other beaches but they can only be accessed by boat or kayak.

To find accommodation, of course, we are motivated cracks, we kicked all the sites looking for the cheapest, 3 km under the sun … eh !? What did you think … As February is high season, it was all over, or very expensive, until we found a shabby room but enough for 400 Baths in Cashew Bungalows, run by Yai, a very nice Thai. You can also find tents for 300 Baths.

The stay in Koh Mook you can imagine … beach, beach and beach, especially in Charlie’s beach, quiet beach with fine sand, with palm trees in the background and clear water. At the end of the beach there is a restaurant on the rock, with incredible views, the perfect place to eat a good curry with coconut milk and celebrate my birthday !!!!! Hip Hip Hooray!!

It is mandatory to rent a kayak and skirt the rocky coast, where you can see beautiful cormorants perched on the rocks. On the way you find the Esmeralda cave, or Morakot. A dark cave in which you can enter with a kayak that connects 80 meters to a beach located in a deep hole in the rock, where it is said that the pirates hid their booties. A beautiful place, full of vegetation … and sometimes tourists … but if you wait for the relay, at some point you can stay alone … wonderful … this is life !!!!! Following in kayak, we arrive at a beach that we do not remember the name, without access by land, virgin and beautiful, the only drawback is this full of plastics dragged by the tide … sniff sniff …

The next day, we toured other beaches without tourism. We went with Martinique, a German girl we met in the bungalows. The beaches are beautiful, with water trees, small coves, but full of rubbish … a pity … we are some dirty! In case someone does not take for granted … yes! you too!!

In the mornings, at 8 am, we went with Yai to the port to eat the local breakfast, very cheap, made up of snacks made with glutinous rice, banana, coconut and boiled egg … they were very good! And it cost 5 Baths each piece, plus about 15 Baths for tea.

After 4 nights on the wonderful island of Mook, we decided to continue our journey to another island, Koh Tao, where there was a friend of a friend with a diving school … Here we go !!!! In a tourist agency on the island we bought the trip to Suratthani for 250 Baths / person.

Koh Tao

From Koh Mook, we went to Trang the same way we arrived, and took a bus to Suratthani. There we bought the ticket for the night ferry to Koh Tao, 500 Baths / person, but we were surprised how well it is mounted, and clean, you sleep in a bunk with plugs and everything!

Once on Koh Tao, we went to Chalok Baan Kaok, the beach where you can find cheaper and better accommodation. Bargaining we got a bungalow near the beach for 250 Baths, great !!!! The truth is that Koh Tao is overflowing with diving schools, the beaches are perfect for snorkeling, an underwater paradise. However, we did not go diving, and the days we were there was a storm and the water was very cloudy … on the island there is also a Buddhist temple and a viewpoint that we did not visit. For our taste, the island is too crowded by tourism.

The best part of the stay was the people we met, first Albert and Ànnia, a very nice couple from Girona who are traveling around the world, you can not miss your travel blog, it is very useful, we had already consulted before to meet them !!!!: Menjant-nos el món.

Then, in the bungalows bar we met Vanesa, Nacho and Jordi, great companions with whom we shared travel experiences.

From Koh Tao we went to Chiang Mai, but first we arrived in Bangkok, for 760 Baths / person.