Thailand: Krabi - Krabi Town

Krabi is my 25th birthday solo trip, i have 5 nights in the land and decided to spend 1 night in Krabi town, 2 nights in Koh Lanta, and 1night in Ao Nang.

To decided the route so was because Krabi town is the transit point to other places, like Phuket or islands like Koh Lanta, Phi Phi and Koh Lipe, and it close with the pier to those island (half hour from the town) which i can easily get mini van to pier to catch passenger ferry to the island. 

Ao Nang is pretty much a tourist place, imagine if there is a McDonald outlet there. But it close to airport, which you can take airport transit bus and reach in half hour, so its good if you make Ao Nang the last destination before you fly back home. 

Ok, as i mentioned in the earlier post, there are buses to Ao Nang and Krabi Town in the airport. You will see bus ticket counter after check out from custom, walk forward and let them know where to go, they will give you ticket and direct you to the bus. 

In case you wanna go to other place like island, you can get package ticket in the counter too, but you have to transit either in Krabi Town or Ao Nang anyway. If you have enough time, my advice is stay a night in Krabi town or Ao Nang before you go to other places, just to see the place and you have much time to prepare although transportation delay is rare in Thai. 

So i got the ticket to Krabi Town like RM 10 - 15 (i forgot), and get on the bus like below.     

The driver is super friendly although he cant speak English, but he was trying to knows where do i stay in Krabi Town so he could drop me off somewhere nearer.

The bus ride is less than an hour, like other places in Thai, people approach to intro place to stay when you get off the bus in Krabi Town station, just tell them you got a place to stay (if you really do, if don't, they are good to find you a place) and they will be happy to tell you where is your place's direction.

Like i said in the previous post, Pak Up hostel is 5 to 10 minutes walking distance from the station. Done check-in and i ask for the transfer to koh lipe.

I read from the forum that there is passenger ferry in Krabi Town to Koh Lanta, the fare is like 70% lower than the tourist ferry, but the hostel's stuff is unfamiliar with that, so finally i got the mini van + ferry ticket with RM45, which i think a bit pricy.

But the advantage is you don't need to walk all the way to the station, mini van will come and pick you up in the hostel, lead you to the pier and get up to the right ferry.

I will blog in detail about that in next post, before i gone too far, back to Krabi Town.

Krabi town is a very peaceful town with not-too-over develop, few main street but no tall building. There are few temple and a crystal lake nearby but i just wanna chill in the town so i didn't go any of the places. 

If you have more than one day stay in Krabi Town, you could ask for tour package in the hostel, i believe that is not too expensive and i heard from my roommate in Pak-up that crystal lake is stunning. 

Chaofa rd is one of the main road in the town, behind is pak-up hostel. Chaofa rd turn to be hawker street by evening time. 

Chaofa rd. You make take boat trip in the pier of this road too. 

As i said, peaceful place. 

Main street still happening, you can do some shopping  here. 

Not as busy as phuket, but lots of shop too.

And i found ultraman storekeeper hahahahahahahah

The sign of the town, ape traffic light. 

a develop town 

the famous night market is located not too far away from the ape night market. 

I never knew there is a temple in this town. 

I saw some people walk up and i follow. 

The temple. 

the town's view. 

Chao fa rd hawker street, cheap and nice. 

I departed to Koh Lanta in the next day, about 9 or 10am i think. So next post will be Koh Lanta, stay tuned. 

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
20120208, 1138am

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