When not to go to Phi Phi

When you admire beautiful photographs and, of course, watch a movie with the incomparable Leo about how a bunch of young loafers bathe in a beautiful turquoise bay with white sand, you certainly want to see this wonderful place, take pictures, swim, sit on a sand and enjoy the beauty, all the more from here, from Phuket, to the "beach" at hand.

But you do not think that only you want this ???

I made that mistake twice. Yes, yes, twice !!! With a difference of 8 years, hoping that something has changed there ... It has changed, but not for the better ...

But let's start in order. So you got together and chose a tour, took, of course, a high-speed boat (well, do not drag along for 2 hours on a slow trough!), Which in full steam carries you to the paradise bay. And then your boat swims between two huge rocks and you get ... where ??? In an incomprehensible place !!!

"Is it really he is, is it really that same" Beach "???" - you think, while your boat is slowly trying to swim over the heads of bathing turiks to the shore in search of a free spot to moor and drop you ashore. The whole bay is packed with dozens of the same fast boats, and on the beach and in the water ... crowds !!! It seems that all of Phuket today came here to the beach !!!

But there’s nowhere to go ... The boat sailed, you were disembarked and given about an hour and a half free time. "Relax, gentlemen, tourists!"

And now you find yourself on the "beach" ... Here the comments are superfluous, here, and from the photographs everything is perfectly visible!

Solid boats along the coast !!! and people !!! and the Chinese !!! Everyone walks, everyone takes pictures, everyone takes a selfie ...

Aside, you notice small boats. On such tourists come here who rest on the islands next to it. Phi Phi is not just one island, but a whole group of islands full of hotels. It turns out that you can live on Phi Phi!

And on the sidelines you find a place for "swimming" in which there are no boats. But there are people here. Many people!!! A lot of people!!! Everything is complete with selfie sticks and cameras. And swimming here is almost impossible, very shallow, and the bottom is terrible! So it is better to enjoy this water from the shore, and even better on TV.

To take such a photo, you have to choose a place for a very long time and expel other people from the frame (at least from the foreground), and then for a long time and hard to “clean” everything and everyone in Photoshop ... It’s good that you can do it.

So do not believe such a photo here - this is a hoax!

That's all, you “enjoyed” the beach, took a cool photo and want to leave as soon as possible, all the more in the program you promised another “monkey island”, “snorkeling” and lunch with relaxation on another beach (maybe there will be less people there?).

On the "island of monkeys" you looked at a couple of dozen macaques sitting on a rock, and sailed on. And in the distance you can already see large islands with hotels and deserted beaches, and you think: "Hooray, now I’ll lie down calmly and go for a swim!" But it was not there. You are not being taken there. The boat stops, they give you a mask (and you have to pay for the fins) and say: "Swim!".

And here the picture is the same as on the "beach", only now all the people in the water ...

Do you need it? Unlikely. We’ll sit in the boat and see how others “snorkel”.

Finally, "snorkeling" ends, you are landed on a large island and fed dinner. This is probably the most enjoyable part of this excursion. They are fed without frills, but quite tasty and satisfying! You quickly eat up and go back to the sea, hoping to sunbathe and swim ... Here, of course, not everything is as cruel as on the "beach", but still you have on Karon, or on Kat, or even on Patong Beach all is better !!! And there are no these ubiquitous boats that impede calmly entering the water ... Yes, and the sun is beating (right now it's just one o'clock in the afternoon, it’s very hot), and nowhere to hide, all the shadows under the trees have been occupied for a long time.

Another hour passes and you return to your boat again. Now, according to the program, you will be taken to another island with "white sand", where you can already "sunbathe and swim" until the evening!

And you are brought to this island. Only this island is the size of a pea, and they brought here not only you, but all those who also went to the “pee pee beach” today ... And the peculiarity of this island is also that there is no natural shadow, in general ... There is a large sandy beach, a bunch of outdoor cafes and hundreds of sitting sun loungers that sell for an hour at the price of a whole day. And the sun is burning a lot, but you can’t hide in the water for 2 hours, especially since 80% of the coast and water are again taken by boats ...

So there is nothing to do, you get a denyuzhku and buy a "place from the sun." And stupidly dozing here all the remaining time ...

Here is such an ambiguous "tour".

There is nowhere to swim, there are no such species so that “ah”, people are everywhere dark, and even for rest in the “shadow” you have to pay extra ...

And do you still need it ??? Rafting better on the James Bond, believe me, this is an order of magnitude cooler than the boiled Phi Phi !!! Similans? I don’t know, I wasn’t ... but the prospectuses are too beautiful there ... like wee)

And if you still want to go to Phi Phi ... Come here to relax in the hotel for a few days, or maybe for the whole vacation!

And then you can take such a boat here at a time convenient for you and sail to the "beach" and to a more beautiful and secluded place, which (I'm sure) is definitely abundant here !! And I would go to the “beach” early in the morning ... or late or late in the evening) But you have to be very, very close to have time to do this before the first boat from the mainland. And you will be happy ... and beauty !!!