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This place is certainly not for lazy bums.

For the 5 or 6 days there, we've kept ourselves busy with different activities each day: sea kayaking, rock climbing, snorkelling, canoeing, hiking etc. Never worked my muscles so hard before.

Railay is a popular among the rock climbers and it's not hard to understand why when you reach the place. There's so many limestone cliffs to scale, and the scenery once up there is superb. The combination of cliffs, sun, sand and sea are intoxicating that sometimes, you are tempted to dance up the cliff surface and rapell straight into the sea.

Climbing is a sport to make beautiful people. All climbers seem to have enviable body you can die for - lean muscles at all the right places. So you can imagine that it is a very watchable sports: orgling at good-looking people dancing vertically up steep hanging cliffs amidst dramatic landscapes.

What is less attractive about these climbers are the tonnes of plastic bottles they left behind at the various climbing spots.

The Andaman coastline is also perfect for kayaking. This trip has really allow me to work various parts of my muscles and explore different kinds of landscape. Here, we're transported to the muddy mangrove swamps tuck among the limestone caves. As we glide quietly through the water, we can feel nature at its best - almost undisturbed. Time almost stopped for us too, as we rested by the banks and witnessed the tide receding away from us.


The monkeys are so spoilt by the tourists and guides that I wonder if they still know how to find their own food. I can't really blame the local guides for feeding the monkeys to please their clients. It's city bumpkins like us, that are also so detached from nature that we get fascinated easily by the monkeys and couldn't help getting excited by the sight of these creatures jumping after our food.