KO PHI PHI

The next day we took off for Ko Phi Phi. We discovered on the ferry ride over that it's a very popular destination for tourists. It actually consists of two islands, Ko Phi Phi Don and Ko Phi Phi Leh, the latter being where the movie The Beach was filmed. There are no places to stay on Ko Phi Phi Leh, but day trips there are extremely popular. Ko Phi Phi Don has a little "tourist town" located on a thin strip of land that connects two mountainous parts of the island. Both islands, as with a lot of the islands in the Andaman Sea, are made up of huge karst rock formations, massive limestone cliffs that jut hundreds of feet up out of the water, it's awesome. The top picture is a view of Ko Phi Phi Don from a viewpoint that we hiked up to. The bottom picture in the collage is of Ko Phi Phi Leh that I took from the ferry. You can also see the thin strip of land in the collage where the tourist town is. This part of the island got destroyed by the tsunami in 2004. We got to Ko Phi Phi and decided that we needed to find a less touristy part of the island, so we began our hike to Rantee Beach...