Travel by Photo – Phi-Phi Island, Thailand (Part 1/2)

Congratulation to all of you who have participated in my travel photo quiz of camel rock! You are all correct! That camel resembling lime rock island is one of the smaller islands of Koh Phi-Phi, or Phi-Phi Islands, south east off Phuket Island of Thailand. I fancied more to the bigger rock (island) next to it… 🙂

Day tour to Phi-Phi Island was our 2nd morning of our vacation travel to Phuket. I’ve skipped the stories of our first afternoon, evening and night at Patong for this post because it’s been 2 weeks since the photo quiz published and I need to announce the answer…

We were picked up by Rat, our paid taxi driver (as part of our sightseeing tour package signed up at arrival to Phuket) at 8 am. We had the local instant noodle cup as breakfast in our hotel room before that. After about 45 minutes, we reached the Boat Lagoon Marina near Phuket town. Many speedboats to Phi-Phi Islands were parked here. Tourists are gathered at the quay before departure at 10a.m. So, we had to wait for like 30 minutes or so, and it was my time to shoot the surrounding scenes…

At Boat Lagoon Marina, I liked this scene of many boats parking at the quay.

This is a Thai Buddha figure (for safety on seas) with all sorts of offerring laid around it. I love these 2 little kids in the photo. Look at the baby girl, sooooo cute!

At 9:45 am, visitors started to board. Look at the girl holding a camera and standing at the far end of this photo. She was snapping photos for all passengers and going to sell our photos back to us when  we reached back home here in the evening.

I snapped this speedboat thinking that it was our boat but in fact it’s not. We had a more powerful 3-Honda-Vtec-Engine-powered speedboat next to No.19. It was No.2 (couldn’t read from the photo, just spot the 3 engines).

Our speedboat roared to start. It sailed through a series of guard poles as exit way out to the Andaman Sea and headed South East, where the Phi-Phi Island is. Look at the curvy trail! Excited to follow the speedboat trail…

After 45 minutes, we were already at Phi-Phi Islands. We slowed down at the Camel Rock to take photos at first then came to our first stop at a cove before the Monkey Beach and had our first snorkelling session… get into your life jacket please! Ready? Jump!

I didn’t snorkel this round and decided to shoot photos first before the noon sunlight. Look at the fish! They are plenty! In fact fish feeding is lots more fun than snorkelling here. Corals reef were less attractive here. We couldn’t see any colourful corals. I love the turquoised colour seas and those bright colured fish very much. Following photos are what I love most… 🙂

Clear water, turquiose colured, coral reefs and snorkelling. Perfect!

Less action from the fish? Try throwing in some breads and see… Spot where the bread is and those fish swimming direction…

Another shot I love.

Great fun to have fish all around your body…

… but don’t feed them too much. 🙂

Monkey Beach was not too far away from where we snorkelled from boat.

Next stop, Monkey Beach at Phi-Phi Don Island. We could only shoot photos from far far away and mustn’t feed those wildlifes. They are macaques and we have more here in Kuala Selangor, Malaysia. I haven’t got any 400mm tele lens fitted onto my Nikon D60 to close them up, so I snapped my fellow tour members instead. 🙂

Our next stop? The Maya Bay! Leonardo DiCapro! I’m coming!

UPDATED: Click HERE to view original high resolution file of the above photos in Flickr.

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Cecil Lee

The author is an avid traveler and photography hobbyist who loves to share with others his travel and photo-taking experience in many popular tourist destinations around Europe, Asia and Australasia. Read the exciting stories with many photos captured on his journeys.