We (Nir Nadav, Daphne, and me) rented a taxi boat for the whole day with some Thai guy who called himself "The Boxing Man", although he had no resemblance to one. We went to a place called "Maya Bay", which is where the movie "The Beach" was filmed. In order to actually get to Maya Beach one needed to get to the shore and get past some big rocks. Many got slightly injured. I didn't. But then again I didn't go since I decided to stay with the boat (a precaution against having Mr. boxing man still our stuff). We also did some snorkeling, which was very nice and would have far better if I had worn my contacts...
Afterwords, we continued to a place called "Bamboo Island", which was about an hour away. As we arrived some guy demanded we payed 200Baht (~6.5 USD) to enter. The boxing man never mentioned that and when we asked him why he hadn't he just shrugged. So we figured this was some sort of a scham. We did some arguing and Daphne proposed we pay 200B for all four of us and the "ranger" agreed. That in my opinion was an indication that it was indeed a schem. Furthermore, the note the ranger held had loads of English mistakes, which strengthened my belief in the schem theory. Ultimately, when we were about to pay the guy let us in without any payment.
We returned to the main island (Phi Phi) at 18:00. We ran some errands among them was to ask Lili (a Hebrew speaking Thai travel agent who worked in Haifa for 11 years!) about the whole 200B thing. She claimed it was legit. Who knows..
At around 20:00 the four of us went for dinner in an "all you can eat" meat place. It wasn't bad. Or was it?
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