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  Monday, Nov 23, 2009 11:36PM / Standard Entry / Members only
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  Within the phang nga region, u can find 'Wat Tham Suwankhuha' (the monkey cave), named after the hundreds of small monkey inhabitants, and they wait anxiously for the daily arrival of tourists, as they are fed on peanuts sold at a small stand. Here u can also find a 15 meters long, lying buddah statue - it even claims it can create universe in five days :P this picture is a mere depiction of commercialised exploitation of religion... intense, i know. 

  

  Back to leisure sight seeing; beyond the temple, is an attractive cave interior. It doesnt stretch very far, but adequate for a photo or two, plus, hundreds and hundreds of whispering bats.

  

  longtail boat ride, cutting our way through a mangrove forest, to our destination james bond island, remember sir roger moore in 'the man with the golden gun' ? no? neither do i lol

  

  voila, limestone mountains rising out of sea in all sort of shapes, some with hidden lagoons or mangrove forest delta with twisting channels

  

  natural entries like this can be found in limestone stacks quite often in phang nga bay

  

  whether or not these pearls are found and processed by locals in phang nga, is hard to say, the bargain simply drops from 1200 all the way to 600/500 baht... without me saying a word, knowing things can go ugly, i couldnt help telling the vendor i m a dealer myself

  

  again, cant resist the funny shaped rocks... during a half hour drop off session on the island, with nothing else to do

  

  at james bond island bay area, its typical touristy picture time with the famous nail rock (even though they are all over the place)

  

  nail rock, lime stone mountain, bond's stack (!), u name it... they even have captions of the movie practically engraved on the rocky walls. seems too much to me, to be honest

  

  this is what u see if u look up from the lagoon, all sorts of vegetations, in one of those giant sized nail rocks, we were, of course, rowing on a canoe

  

  some exotic species grow on the narrowest of cracks, cactus looking; at one point, the guide even pointed out cave man drawings, claiming it to be at least 3000 years of age - looks like my kindergarten crayons

  

  mangrove, they are every where, quietly still, listening to men's conversation, thinking why they could never stop talking 

  

  the following day, a little more island jumping to phi phi, this picture is just here to blow your mind, and resemble a couple scenes from the dicaprio movie, the beach... it is shot some where around here

  

  the inner part of phi phi island, no ganjas to be found lol

  

  a typical longtail boat in the area, these can fit up to a dozen

  

  awwww, monkey accepts food from human, how sweet... with the guide warning us of a single scratch of this creature can lead to severe rabies infection, we just stare at it from afar. so much consequences with nature, damn...

  

  a little resort resting on phi phi island coast