Thailand climbing & diving
December 23-31, 2012
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After Vietnam, we went to Thailand.
First we climbed at the famous Railay Beach / Tonsai, then we went to
Koh Lanta for some diving, and came back again for a couple of more days
of climbing. New Year's Eve was spent in Bangkok - crazy city! And then,
off to Sapa/Vietnam, the final leg of
our journey!
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Arriving in Tonsai |
Long tail boats at Railay West |
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Railey East |
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First route in Railay.. Muay Thai |
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Muay Thai - unique climbing |
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Then we went to the Hidden World wall, muddy and tricky to find.. |
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Lots of tufas; Hidden World wall |
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Monkeys at Hidden World |
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Sad that the monkeys feed on the garbage... |
Pranang cave area |
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Crux moves |
Starting up a 2-pitch route |
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Amazing stalactites all over |
Ao Nang tower, has some routes too |
A couple of pitches up, in the depths of limestone |
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Sketchy ladder start to Humanality |
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Humanality first pitch. Tricky; the crux of the climb |
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Starting the second pitch of Humanality |
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So happy to be in the shade |
Rush hour traffic |
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Higher up Humanality |
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Rappelling Humanality |
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Steep |
View of Tonsai bay from the climb |
Rappelling down - you literally rappel onto the bar patio! |
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Humanality in red |
Humanality line |
Crazy Brits climbing in the sun! |
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At low tide, one can walk easily between Tonsai and Railay |
Arriving in Koh Lanta - tuk tuk to our hotel |
hat i just bought for $6 |
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We went diving with Scuba Fish to Ko Haa |
Ko Haa |
Leaving Ko Haa |
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Koh Lanta sunset |
Back in Railay - Sunrise Tropical Resort for 2 nights |
2 days in style |
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This route had a crazy no-feet start, but no pics of that |
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Starting up Beauty & The Beast, Monkey World wall |
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Hanging in the tropics |
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Tonsai |
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This pitch was super sweet.. |
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Rappelling. Hard to tell but it was so steep, the rain was behind us |
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On the last rappel some of the hard rain was coming our way, so we hid into this cave |
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No rain here |
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Sun is setting again, time to go.. |
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At low tide, Tonsai looks pretty rocky.. |
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2nd pitch of Beauty & The Beast |
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Railay West and East both visible here |
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Coming up the Thailand wall |
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That was actually off-route? |
checking out the views, two pitches up |
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Time to rappel & catch our flight! |
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