Day - 19 Railay Day Tour

Day 18 - railay beach exploration
  Today we woke up with the delivery of our groceries! Yes... We mainly ordered snacks of local fruits and some slabs of meat. Delicious!  After breakfast we met up with Nat at the bamboo bar whom I had to wake up because he had a long night of DJing. I asked him where he wanted to take us and he rambled off a bunch of names the last one ending in sunset. I didn't realize we were hanging out for the full day! Wow this was exciting. It was only four of us Phil, Nick, Chris, and myself because Nate wasn't feeling well today. 
  The first place we went to was the lagoon. We hiked up and down red clay walls which were surprisingly large making our trip slow and cautious. If you injured yourself here you would be SOL. We finally made it down in the lagoon which was filled with sea water from high tide. There were beautiful rock formations everywhere. We were literally inside the mountain, in a hole 100 feet in diameter and 200 meters high. Wow... We stayed down there for a while just enjoying this magical place. During our hike back we took an abrupt turn taking us out to see the expansive views of Railay West (the part of town with all the bars and restaraunts) at lookout point. While coming back down from the mountain Nat decided to climb into a tree and jump down like a jungle monkey which freaked me out! He loved joking with us and had a great time singing hooks of recient songs. Next we made it out to the diamond cave which was an actual cave with sparkling rock formations and pleanty of bats. We then picked up some large tortches back at the bamboo bar for our next location. This time we walked down to punang beach which was filled with all sorts of people. Some were nudists and others were Europeans who were way to comfortable sunbathing in their speedos. We turned off the beach and headed into the jungle, once again and found ourselves in a dark cave. This is what we had the tortches for. They revealed to us tiny bamboo ladders that we used to help us to scale to the top of the cave. Here we had expansive views of Railay East, that is where we are staying. We were so high up! We continued to thank Nat as for we wouldn't have known about any of these spots without him. We then made it back to the house after our adventurous day to relax. I showed Nat how to download new songs off the internet making him very excited. The whole trip he told me about Erin and how they met each other. I think he is in love! We then finished up our day on Railay East watching the sunset and relaxing in the sand. When we came back Nat brought his computer and gave us a dj set. The night ended after Chris and I ate at a hole in the wall thai food restaraunt where we both ate for 6 dollars... Not bad! We were joined at our table by a spider the size of our palms. It was crazy looking! We then made it back to the bars to hang out before making it through the town back to our mosquito net covered beds. Whew that was a big day!