Shauna & Danielle Take Southeast Asia!!!! : Snorkelling and THE Beach

So it's been a little while now and we haven't moved at all! Still on koh phi phi!!

Ok where do I begin???

Spent one of the days on the beach - not too eventful other than a few fruit shakes and sun burns.

Next day we went on this really cool tour of beaches and islands!! We hopped on a little long tail boat with 20 other people. Our first stop was to snorkel. We jumped in the water and were surrounded by all these colourful tropical fish!! Spent about a half hour there then headed to bamboo island. Doesn't appear that anyone lives on the island but is a popular spot for boats to drop off tourists to enjoy the white sand and the clear blue water. Our guide handed us our lunch (a small container of fried rice) to eat on the island. We had our small lunch and went for a swim! Amazing place!!!

After that we went snorkelling again in a different location. This time the reef was larger so we could take a better look at all the fish!

And then the most anticipated beach of all!! Leonardo Dicaprios beach!! Ok ok it's actually called Maya Beach. This is the one that they filmed the movie "The Beach" at. So it was a bit of a trek to get there. Our boat stopped at the opposite side of the island and told us to swim (around these jagged rocks, I may add) and then climb up these very steep slippery stairs to walk to the other side of the island to get to maya beach.

We managed to get to the beach with minor injuries. But we were a little disappointed that Leo wasn't waiting for us at the other side hahaha. We had very high expectations about this beach and were sadly disappointed. The beach and water was quite dirty (despite the entrance fee we paid to keep the island clean). We spent about an hour there. It was quite the mission getting back on our boat. Danielle made it back quite quickly, while I was a little less fortunate. I ended up getting stuck in a little lagoon hitting rocks. One of the guides had to come help me get out. As I climbed back on the boat noticed a lot of cuts on my arms and legs but luckily they were very deep.

We then went to check out monkey island. Guess what!! It's exactly how it sounds!! Our guide fed the monkeys (even though there were signs everywhere saying do not feed the monkeys). I got a million pictures of that!!

The sun was starting to set and we headed to a very inconvenient spot to watch it. We were situated right behind a mountain so if there was a sunset -we didn't see it hahahha. Went for a quick swim and headed out for dinner with Aren and our new English friends, Sophie and Dave.