Speedboat tour of Koh Phi Phi, Thailand.

We strolled down Tonsai beach on an idyllic day to Arida, the beach front center for the Arisa speedboat tours of #Kohphiphi. Under the white cliffs of the Tonsai Towers (a famous climbing wall) we saw out 12 seater speedboat, stern to the golden sands and being lapped by the most inconsequential wavelets.

Full Day Speedboat Tour of Phi Phi Island
Getting on at Tonsai Bay #KohPhiPhi

The #speedboat lightly bobbed on the crystal electric blue waters as we waited for all of us to board. Our captain Bang Sead, got his apprentices to pull in and stow the anchors and we set off south towards #phiphiley.

Leaving the beach on Tonsai Bay.

We sped out of the bay aiming for Viking Cave and then Pi ley Lagoon. We moored up on the sand beach in a corner of the lagoon and tried to scramble up to the rarely visited view point. Unfortunately it was very overgrown with vines crawling with red ants that delighted in biting us so we turned back just 20 meters from our goal. The smart guys who stayed wallowing in tropical waters had the best result, just lying back enjoying glorious paradise.

Full Day Speedboat Tour of Phi Phi Island
Pi Ley Bay, #PhiPhiLey

From Pi Ley Bay we headed south past Loh Samah to snorkel on the diving walls of the Koh Bida islands. Celine saw a leopard shark and a black reef shark immediately. After all 8 of us were in the water the bigger fish had been scared off. Still we saw shoals of big trevally waving around the submerged rock falls from the cliffs. This was are best snorkeling for shoals of small fish .

  

Full Day Speedboat Tour of Phi Phi IslandLeaving Koh Bida

From #KohBida we headed back north to Palong Bay which is just north of the World renown #MayaBay. A local dive profession told us that the black tip shark had been spotted there and sure enough 6 of out 8 had see shark by the end of the visit.

Full Day Speedboat Tour of Phi Phi Island
Palong Bay

Full Day Speedboat Tour of Phi Phi Island
Leaving Palong

The penultimate snorkel stop was a a massive submerged rock just off the bottom of #phiphidon. The water was clearer here and there was a brilliant shoal of mini blue tuna which was a wonderful sight.

The last stop took us to Wang Long, a perfect cut in the cliffs that has access out onto the setting sun. As they sun set we snorkelled under the cliffs and caves eaten away by the low season storms. This was a real magical setting and sealed the end to a perfect day.

Sun Set at Wang Long Bay 3

On the way Back to Koh Phi Phi Don

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Further Links

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Pi Ley

Loh Samah Bay Best Beaches on Phi Phi Island

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