Thursday, 13 January 2011

Railey, Mud, Elephants and Pirate trousers

Classic scene, normally to be found with blue sky backdrop


Railey was not super impressive, compared to the quieter islands we had come from this was much more tourist territory, folks arriving on two week packages.



It was lovely scenery despite the poor weather we had, we literally had to go through a curtain of rain to get to the island! Again I left Ed and ran round the island trying to find accommodation, not quite sure how I landed up with the short straw-maybe i’m slightly fussier on accommodation, anyhow, soaked to the bone I found a nice room in a fairly busy ‘resort’ for three nights.



Our time in Railey was spent doing excursions off of Railey! We had a day kayaking around caves with amazing stalagmites and stalactites as well as some pretty impressive cave paintings (Wedding gift No.5a Thanks to Kim). The following day we had an epic all day trip. Visiting a beautiful emerald coloured freshwater pool, amazing hot springs and finally taking in an hours elephant ride through the jungle, awesome! Wedding gift No.6 thanks to Rowie and Paddy, Abs and Austin and Margherita and Mike.






Local layabouts


Cave temple offerings



WEDDING GIFT NO.5


Top tip No.1: Do Not follow Sarah when she thinks she has a more direct (than the locals know) route to the hotel, especially when mud flats are to be found.
Top tip No.2 Mud flats can be very deep!


The.Best.Tattoo I have ever seen

Ed gave in and I was allowed to buy some 'Pirate Trousers'/fisherman pants. Lucy, too much?!

Again please add blue sky back drop



No beard!









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