Krabi day 3
Too many steps!!!
09.06.2006
35 °C
Last day in Krabi. Slept in because of the late night I'd had.
Finally got and had some breakfast, Went outside, way tooo hot. Even the Thais were complaining it was too hot. Quickly retreated back to fan cooled room and wrote some post cards.
Around 4 oclock headed off to the Tiger Temple (Wat Tham Seua) just outside Krabi.
Climbed up 1237 steps (equilavent to climbing up a 100 floors) to the top for some amazing views, monkeys were following us up for a good part of the walk. Started to wonder if telling the nurse when I was getting my jabs " oh no I won't be going near any wild animal". What I hadn't reckoned on was them getting very close to me. The stairs up to the top of the mountain were very steep in places, I think they might of been built by giants or something
After arriving at the top of mountain and getting my breath back the views were amazing. Got our picture taken with some monks. I think they were laughing at us for how tired we looked, they probably climb it lots of times a day to mediate.
By the time we left to go back down the mountain it was getting dark so we had to go down quite fast. You could hear the monkeys swinging about in the trees above you.
Didn't have time to visit all the bits of the temple because the monks were mediating and it was dark and we had to get back.
Had an early night that night
For more info on the temple see below
http://www.krabi-hotels.com/seedo/temples.htm
That was our last day in thailand, off to malyasia tommorow








Mediating monks? Wow, as well as spiritual enlightenment they now offer conflict resolution? Excellent!
12.06.2006 by eifion