Boat trip through "Little Halong Bay"😜

Good morning to Germany, gäääh, I'm so tired🙉. Yesterday we also had to set the alarm because we had booked a tour 😖! The delicious breakfast was gobbled down in no time and we were picked up.

Our guide this time was a German-speaking Thai woman! She looked like Cindy Lauper and gave us the impression that she stayed somewhere in the 80s 😜! She was still very nice and fed us a lot of information👍.

It went through the hinterland of Khao Lak. Here were huge plantations with pineapples, coconuts, rubber and bananas. We could see the farmers working on the plantations. Many vans were already loaded with pineapples, coconuts etc. ready at the roadside.

After about 1 hour and 20 minutes we reached a small port. There our long boat was already ready for us 😊. It was a great drive through the mangrove forests. Again and again we drove through narrow overgrown streets. That was impressive 😊! The roots of the trees sticking out of the water looked totally bustling.

We continued on the open sea to a large pier. The kayaks were already waiting for us there😬. Unfortunately we were not allowed to paddle ourselves. Each boat had a guide😖! Our paddler let out a really bad Prince Charming. Just stupid sayings 🙉. I said to Daniela, one more sentence and I'll knock the worm off the boat with his paddle 😬! It was said before that if the paddlers don't talk much and don't ask for a tip themselves, it's up to us whether we give something 👍! I already had money ready, but after the show 😖. Then the one just in front of the investor said "I GET 100 Baht"! That was really the crowning glory 🤴🏾! When we got out of the kayak, we gave him a nice wave 👋! He was totally hooked......! 😬!

Now we went back to the longboat and we were driven to a very specific rock 😜! The so-called James Bond Rock 😬. Hm, I couldn't remember the film at all, the rock was still spectacular🙉! He was bypassed once for appropriate photos and then the tour continued to a floating minority village 🙃!

The sea became more and more restless in the meantime, so that the trip with the longboat became a very unstable affair 🙉. Tablets against seasickness were diligently distributed 😬! But it went well without any special incidents.

There was a very tasty lunch on the floating village, I was pleasantly surprised 😉! A villager had caught 🦀 from a pool and walked past our table with his basket. Something big black was sitting on his back 🙈. I wanted to scream hysterically again because I thought it was a tarantula 🙈! But then I saw that he had cancer 🦀 on his body 😂. Phew, luckily I hadn't screamed 🙉😬!

After the meal we were shown around the floating village. Hmmmm, freshly caught fish 🐟 was dried in the sun 🙈. It smelled terrible, but one species felt right at home on the fish! Zig flies cavorted on it 😄! I asked directly what happened to it 😬?! It would be sold after drying 🙉🙈! Baaaah, what a disgusting idea 😖! Luckily I don't eat such a sh...💩😬!

The village was divided into rich and poor 🙄! Where we had eaten stood the great huts of the rich. Almost all had a speedboat in front. Our guide said that tourism made them rich. Behind it were the littered barracks of the poorer villagers 😳. Unbelievable how people can live there at all 😮. Her chickens ran around in the huts and there was dirt everywhere!

Well then, we took the boat 🚣 back through the mangrove forests to the jetty! Our driver was waiting there to take us to a stalactite cave. So many monkeys were running and jumping around the cave 🐒. I thought that was great. A small vegetable/fruit market was set up at the roadside and again and again you could see that some monkeys were stealing bananas from the stands🐒👍😬! It was difficult for me to part with the monkeys, but the visit of the cave was coming up😁. It had fantastic stalactite formations and even cuter residents🤗! Bats flew around us 😬🦇 !

At the end of our tour, a waterfall was visited. It had a lot to offer due to the rainy season 😁! A little boy from the group jumped into the water there 😁. We didn't feel like swimming 🏊 because we were already knocked out. But we got a free spa treatment. Nibble fish bit our toes 😂! After that the tour was over and we were taken to our hotel😊!

Now it was time to get ready for the "party"😜!

It was full moon 🌕 and that was called full moon party 😉 on the beach 🤗! We walked towards the beach and a street dog followed us. He was nice and looked very hungry 😒. We are in a small store, I wanted to get a bone or something for him there. I wanted to get rid of him with it! But the store had nothing for animals 😒! Daniela was totally shocked. She said we can't get rid of him! He was still in front of the door when we left 🙉. He went over with us a little bit, but then said goodbye 👍! Finally arrived at the beach there was no full moon party 😮! Very strange, we thought the entire beach consists of a party zone, but nothing was 😳. Hmmmm, we then had a drink in a beach bar😬!