We bought our tickets the day of the ferryboat to Koh Lipe Tiger Liner. Normally we expect a big speed boat. The price was therefore: 1400 baht!
Boat was scheduled for 11:30. The guys at the front desk was watching him, and calls us, it's good, he is seen on Koh Muk, the island opposite.
To get there you must take a longtail ... we pay extra 50 baht ... bteau because most can not dock in the shallow Kradan. So we go to the longtail ferry at sea, something that is becoming well accustomed. The boat guys have great skill to bring the two boats, and we get our luggage from one boat to another, and to ensure that we move from one to another becomes very easy .
There are already World on the ferry, passengers coming from Koh Lanta. We find by chance five French people of the Ardèche, that we had encountered on the beautiful beach south of Lanta.
And we're off on a long trip. For two hours advertised speed boat to Lipe, well that's not it at all. This is not a boat sped all. It will take some time, stop at several "stops".
We left at 11:30. We arrive at 14:30 Lipe. We stopped at the pier at Hat Yao, first, and the scenery is magnificent mangrove. It is half past twelve. That is where the boats leave for Koh Libong reach the island, the island where you can go see the dugong (which is not even on), this marine mammal endangered , called manatee in French.
Then we made a short stop on Koh Lao Liang, an island where the ferry deposits that two young girls, on the whole boat. But the sight of the beach and ocean color are dreaming.
And then nothing, the sea, islands pebbles, large cargo ships, very old.
It's a great cruise at sea
be seen after some time spent alone at sea, without land, finally, the earth. A barrier of earth. These are the islands of Koh Adang and Koh Rawi, the two large islands that are above Lipe. Lipe, for its part, is all, very small ... and then why are we so visitors get there? ? You will understand later. She is GORGEOUS.
I see even through the zoom on my camera to the beach which is renowned Lipe.
THIS IS THE IMAGE THAT I HAD SEEN ON THE INTERNET BEFORE, AND THAT OF LIPE made me dream. YOU WILL SEE THE REAL PICTURE MADE BY ME IN THE FOLLOWING ITEMS.
Here we arrive at Lipe, off Pattaya Beach.
Again, not enough depth of water. We pass on longtails. First of all baggage and passengers afterwards. It's a mess. We pay the longtail boat 50 baht. What is surprising is the immediate beauty of the sea floor there, it is low tide in after noon. We see the stones, and especially the colors of blue, unimaginable. The longtail is moving very, very slowly, to avoid scraping the bottom, there is almost no water. But they are very familiar.
Yes it's a mess. Because we come to South Beach, the most famous, Pattaya Beach, former Bundaya Beach, it was renamed Pattaya! We decided we had to seek accommodation on the beach at sunrise, Sunrise Beach. Because we hope it is quiet, no bars, restaus like Pattaya, and you can swim. We have nothing booked, like many people, phone numbers in the guides completely wrong, and fixed Lipe does not work, nya that motives. So as our mobiles that changes often and that the guides do not mention them, well we arrived and they needed a home when they arrive.
The guy's boat made two stops on the Pattaya beach, and says "stay Sunrise On The Boat".
As for Sunset Beach, another beach, the sunset, I decided not to go because I read that it was rather muddy, let Dwelling a bit Babacool and up tents for rent on the beach.
The longtail deposited us at the beginning of Sunrise Beach, at a luxury hotel, the Castaway Resort. And from there, as the beach, but sand, no roads to ride. We decide to leave luggage Christian who drinks his coffee, and we are going to look. I m stop first at a club dive Forra, that I have read, is held by a French. I knew he was leasing bamboo-huts sometimes. But there is full and they prefer those who come do a dive Satge.
is continued. The following is a collection of bamboo huts, and Domi will negotiate. We visit. The bamboo hut is very good, best of all those where it was housed, spacious, clean, large room suite and no bugs. Domi arrives to lower the price of 700 baht to 600 baht, saying they will stay for five days. The owner is a Thai Chinese very unpleasant. He wants one thing, he gets paid.
No cart to bring us our luggage. We must get them and wear them while walking on the sand. Fortunately we are not too too far. You could not drag our luggage too far from the beach.
After it was realized that when you have a reservation at a hotel, you can ask the longtail to drop us off in front of the hotel. but we ... it has uun been somewhat difficult to carry the suitcase ... only 10 kgs.
And here we sit here. It is in 3 rd line, I at No. 304.
But I see the sea from my hut.
I went to locate the main street. The door at the bottom of the field huts overlooking the extension of the village's main street, the "Walking Street" they call it.
There is a grocery store just outside the field of all the huts, there is water, beer, cakes to the almond paste that I liked her .. Yoi Koh Yao with that I am saved.
I have not gone up but after I returned with Domi and Christian at night and then we went to the other side, on Pattaya Beach, lined with restaurants, which often hotels and bars etc etc.
was elected, by chance, a very good restaurant. It s called MONKEY. It is run by gypsies of the sea, the Chao Leh. It is they who are the first population of Koh Lipe. They have dark skin and are very typical. They often live in a rudimentary way in the center of the island. .
"Chao Leh" means "men of the sea" or "sea gypsies" in Thai. Those living in Adang, Lipe, and Bulon Lanta are known to Urak Lawoy, and come from Malaysia and Sumatra. To Kiri was the first chief of the village of Koh Lipe, known to history and visited these islands during the early the last century, at the invitation of the governor of the province of Satun. Koh Lipe was given to him by royal decree for the Thai dominance in the region coveted by the English. There are currently 700 Chao Leh-Lipe and Adang Bulon 200 to Don and to Leh.
There was a display of fish in front of the Monkey, so ... especially since we did not lunch with the sea voyage ..
And what we tried, is that there was a shark. I've never eaten shark. In addition it is very cheap, 100 baht per slice, much less than all the fish we ate before, which revolved around the 200 baht. Yes it is the shark, there was still the head.
A slice of shark + a + a rice Chang, 170 baht.
Back in the streets, busy but not Phi Phi. No music, no huluberlus. People who come to Lipe, not for partying, but for the pursuit of beauty, nature, color of the sea is exceptional on this island.
I was dying to sleep, I was awakened around 5 / 6 hrs. I collapsed. The mattress is very good and thick, as he lay on the floor, and I installed the net, and slept without a fan as boss, and with between-windows open. In the morning, I got it ... cold!
MAP OF KOH LIPE
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