Always fly close to the sun: Krabi - 1237 step mountain climb and cooking class!

My next stop after leaving Koh Phi-Phi was Krabi. I wanted to check it out and spend a couple days there seeing as it was on route to Koh Tao anyway. I stayed in a hostel in Krabi town and met up with two guys and two girls from the UK and we went and did two really cool things while we were there.

The first was Tiger Temple Cave. This is a cool area where there is a giant gold Buddha at the top of a mountain but to get there you have to climb 1237 steps... No escalator sadly. It was easily the most grueling thing I have ever done and I had a hangover too. I definitely deserve some kind of medal! By the time we reached the top it looked as though I had just come out of the shower, I was soaked! Doing that climb in 40 degree heat is brutal. It was all worth it though. The view from the top is stunning. You can see the whole of Krabi and it's something I would recommend doing. If you don't think you could do it here is some inspiration...I saw a family walking up and their youngest daughter must have been 2 or 3 years old! Incredible.

Scary!

Happy Tiger

Guarding the temple

Little bugger causing mayhem

Monkeying around

Oh god here we go!

View halfway up

At the top!

Massive gold Buddha

I made it, whoop!

Chilling

Lighting some incense as an offering

Base of the statue

Such a great view

After getting back to the hostel we booked up a Thai cooking class for the evening. I fancy myself as a bit of a Jamie Oliver so it had to be done! We got to make dishes which included hot and sour prawn soup, green curry, pat-thai and spring rolls. The green curry is my favourite dish in Thailand so it was great to make it from scratch. The evening was also really fun because of our instructor called Pear. A great name! She was a nutter. My favourite thing she said (and there were many) was that her son looked like a girl and she hoped that when he grew up he would become a lady boy so that he would never leave her! Ha!