After leaving Ko Lanta we caught the ferry to Krabi for a night so we could catch the early morning flight to Bangkok the next day. There really isn’t much of note as far as tourism in Krabi, so we meant to take a day trip over Railay to see the rock climbing scene that my brother was at during his stay in Thailand, but we ended up taking an afternoon nap instead.
One thing Krabi does have is a really nice night market for food. Lots of places have night markets, but they tend to be overwhelming and often full of the usual junk and trinkets that I don’t care about, but Krabi felt like it was setup more for the locals and just has lots of good, uncrowded, inexpensive food vendors. We ate noodle dishes, mango and sticky rice, a curry, some dessert pancakes, beer, coconut shakes and probably stuff that I forgot about in my food coma.
Our flight back into Bangkok got us there about 8 hours before our flight back home, so we stashed our luggage at the airport and took the train back into the city to get lunch and get one last Thai massage from our favorite massage place. I’m really going to miss those awesome, inexpensive, frequent massages back home.
For me the flight back felt shorter than the flight there, mostly because I slept more during the long leg between Hong Kong and San Francisco and because we broke up the last leg of the flight from San Fran to Portland. Which means that we’re now in San Francisco for a couple days to see the city and try to readjust to the time zone. Funny story about time zones – our flight from Hong Kong left at 1 am on the 16th, but arrived in San Francisco at around 7pm on the 15th. However, the itinerary fails to mention that the arrival date is earlier than the departure date, so Kim booked us a hostel for the 16th but not the 15th. Fortunately, the hostel had one open room left when we arrived, so we were able to stay both nights there and have one more day to see the city than we planned.