Vagabonding : 2006 February |

This is getting boring

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Still very little good solo climbing to be found here in Railay east so Im thinking of a move to TonSai which is north of here. Its a strange little beach that you can only walk to at low tide when the water is knee deep, otherwise you have to hire a longtail boat to take you there. I can see it from Railay West. There are a lot of tourists and couples doing coupley things here so I am constantly wanting to pull my eyes out when I see them googley-eyeing and PDAing each other everywhere. Ive got to get my hands on something dangerous!

I did luck out and walk into the “Last bar”, a good sized pub at the end of the path with pool tables, and caught a free cobra show. They had a small boxing ring set up and a guy basically played with some very poisonous snakes for a while. They would strike at him, and he always managed to avoid it just barely….there were times when he had 2 snakes out at once and was kept very busy keeping them from crawling out of the ring or from biting him! He even brought out a bloody huge king cobra that was as long as the ring, 7+ feet? and harrassed it into a fury for us. The cobra would make a quick dash for the front of the ring where the crowd had gathered and people would jump back, spill drinks, and stumble on each other trying to get away from it, then once he had regained control, they would creep forward again. The brave soul in the ring actually charmed it by rocking his head back and forth and eventually got close enough to kiss it on the top of the head. That put his throat in the snake’s face….absolutely mad. A guy in front of me said it was fake, the fangs were removed, but there was talk of the last show where a guy did get bitten and died in the hospital after the ingenius staff administered anti-venom for the wrong snake! Even if they had no fangs, they never even gave the charmer as much as a dry bite so he was still very talented. Plus, they were playing DMX and other loud gangsta hiphop while he was messing with the snakes, which went with the adrenaline soaked atmosphere perfectly.
I did meet some very friendly English people and we played pool for money. I ended up down 100 baht but it was a pretty close game. Lots of people gamble on the games here, which would be a pools shark’s heaven.

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Arrrrrggg!

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The inevitable finally happened……but sooner in my trip than expected.

The bastards stole my IPOD. Sometimes music from home that had memories attached was the only thing that kept me going. Now I have nothing. boooooo!

Im going to go drown myself in the ocean now.

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Railay East, Thailand

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Why do I write so much? One word…air conditioning! The internet cafe has the best aircon and its the only time I get such luxury. Sure…its 3 baht a minute, but I also miss computers and being near one is nice again. Can I be put back into the matrix now please?

Got up early today and hiked with my English friends to a place with a hidden lagoon and massive view of Railay. It was actually a great class 2/3 scramble to the top of this huge limestone massif in the water, then a hike on top of it to the view. The whole time we had monkeys in the trees above us following and watching us. Fortunately no one brought any food. It was a great climb down to the lagoon, the girls chose to sit it out because they didnt have proper shoes. The climb back up was a real solo, vertical, but short. Very good practice though. The lagoon was too muddy to swim but it was an adventure finding it and there were huge 6 ft long leaves on tropical plants along the way reminding us that we were somewhere exotic.

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