What is the value of PI? History of discovery, secrets and riddles. Phi Phi Island (Phi-Phi) - or the paradise island of Thailand, description of the island, map and photo of Pi Pi Don

  • 03.11.2019

Yes, you guessed right. I'm talking about everyone's favorite island in Thailand. And no, I didn’t make a mistake in the title, because it contains not only the name of the Thai island Phi Phi Don, but also my personal impression of it.

So, I'll tell you how I got to know a completely different, by no means romantic and beautiful side of the Phi Phi Don island ...

If we have already started talking about the name, I will make a remark. Someone calls the island Pi-Phi, and someone - Phi-Phi, according to the transcription. I always called him Pi-Pi, I will adhere to this tradition in this post.

The island of Ko Phi Phi Don is located almost in the central part of the Andaman Sea. He became famous after the film "The Beach" with DiCaprio was filmed on a neighboring island (Pi Pi Leu). Both islands are located next to each other.

I was on the island a very long time ago, back in 12. And I saw it from a slightly different, not at all tourist side. I really hope that something has changed for the better since then.

No, the first plan views that open up to your eye are simply amazing.

I can bet that every self-respecting tourist who has visited Pee Pee has pictures like this:

And a lot of hotels. There are even pools. Always wondered why put pools when there is a sea in a couple of steps? Although, with regard to the island of Phi-Pee, I can imagine how much pee-pee accumulates in the waters from crowds of tourists ...

Yes, about hotels. For different colors and tastes!

Lots of shops and souvenir shops

Everything is designed to create a feeling of an eternal holiday. Even a working tractor is decorated with flowers and New Year's tinsel (I was on the island on January 12, apparently, the Thais, like us, are very hard to part with holiday attributes such as a Christmas tree, silver rain and tinsel).

As you already know, I am an ubiquitous tourist and it’s not so easy to knock me off course with gorgeous beaches. And my course lay in the center of the island. I had to have time to run through Pi-Pi, looking into its very depths and those places where the farang's foot rarely sets foot.

I have few regrets in my life. But this walk deep into the island of Phi Phi is exactly what I would gladly erase from my memory ...

In the depths of the island, mountains, megatons of garbage appeared to my eyes ...

There was a feeling that the entire small island consists of some kind of plastic bottles, construction debris and waste products ...

It was sad... It's sad that a once-chic island is actually so shamelessly polluted for the sake of everything for tourists without a hitch. And I was ashamed that I also participate in this surah. It's for my own good and comfort locals so mindlessly pollute nature, destroying its pristine beauty.

I got to know Phi Phi Island from a different, non-tourist side. Perhaps it is good that tourists are not curious creatures in their mass and lazy. They don't think about the inside of life resort town and believe that the surrounding world of their vacation is beautiful. But personally, I am a supporter of the fact that rose-colored glasses sometimes need to be removed. To not destroy the world. And everyone should be aware of their responsibility for the destruction of nature, historical monuments to understand what one or another action can lead to.

And if you are told, for example, not to take a pebble from the Karadag nature reserve in the Crimea, or they hang up elementary signs with calls not to litter (they have even started to make them with pictures for the dumb-headed cattle! then you need to treat it with understanding.

Friends, don't act like smelly pigs!

Phi Phi Island or Phi Phi is the place where many dream, dream, and someone will dream, get there and not in vain, because this is one of the best and most beautiful islands of the Kingdom.

Phi Phi Island in Thailand - view from the observation deck

Personally, I first learned about this place by watching the movie The Beach, with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role. It was quite a long time ago, but the footage from the film still lives in my memory. At that moment, I remember that I dreamed very much at least once to visit those amazing beautiful places and voila, I succeeded. As it turned out, you do not need to be a millionaire for this, it is enough to have a great desire and go towards your goal.

Phi Phi Islands

islands two, Phi Phi Don and Phi Phi Ley. Let's take a quick look at both of them, so that you can imagine what and where awaits you.

Briefly about Phi Phi Don

This is an island inhabited by people, on which the life of Thais and slowly flows. Its size is no more than 6-8 km. (out of approximately 13 km.) inhabited area. Despite its size, there are quite a lot of hotels, as well as restaurants, SPA salons, bars and beach discos.

Motorbikes are not allowed on the island, so you won't be able to rent one. I think this is one of the reasons why he is still so beautiful, the Thais somehow take care of him.

Briefly about Phi Phi Ley

It is a small island located about 30 minutes ferry ride from Phi Phi Don. By the way, the movie The Beach was filmed on it in May Bay. There are no hotels, bars or discos on this island; long term, only with an excursion for 2 days and one night with an overnight stay in tents.

The island consists of three main bays, such as: Maya Bay, Loh Samah and Pi Ley. The first bay is the most popular as it is the only one with a beach, the other two bays are for snorkeling or diving.

Usually you can get here by buying a tour or by renting a boat with a boatman (payment by the hour). I will write more about this excursion and the prices for a boatman in another article.

More about Phi Phi Don Island

Upon arrival at the island, you will need to pay 20 baht as a cleaning and frequency maintenance fee on the island.

Helpers will be waiting for you on the island, who will find a hotel for you, take your bags to Right place, on their carts or sell some kind of excursion. You need to know in advance which beach you will be staying on, since you can only get from the pier to the desired beach by boat, unless you have stopped at: Ton Sai Bay or Loch Dalam Bay, in these areas, to the hotel, only on foot.

Some hotels provide free transport from the pier to the desired beach, so when booking, check in advance if there is one or not. If there is, then Thais will be waiting for you at the pier with a sign with the name of the hotel.


Phi Phi Port - boaters are waiting for their customers

Tip: when traveling to Phi Phi, book a hotel in advance, in the high season there are critically few places here, in a separate article I will write about some of them, as well as their features. On Phi Phi, not all places are quiet, in some hotels it is simply impossible to fall asleep due to night discos.

A good pedestrian road has been laid on the island, so moving around here is quite easy, along the paths you can find restaurants and cafes with a pleasant interior and not very expensive cuisine and more affordable, there are no problems with food here.

Also on your way there will be many hotels and guesthouses, tour desks and diving centers, here they are most common.

Map of Phi Phi Island

I am laying out for you a map of Phi Phi Island, namely its central part, where life is in full swing.

And here is the general tourist map, it is clickable.

Beaches on Phi Phi Don Island

Unfortunately, I did not manage to visit all the beaches of the island, but I will tell you about those where I visited - these are Tonsai Bay and Loh Dalam Bay, later I will supplement the descriptions of the missing beaches.

Ton Sai Bay Beach on Phi Phi Island

This is the first bay that you will see upon arrival on the island, it is on it that the port is located, from where boats and ferries depart and where they arrive.

Its central and right part (when looking at the island from the sea side) is not suitable for swimming, there are too many boats and boats in the central part, and a lot of stones and dead corals in the right part. Photo below.

The left side is more suitable for swimming, there is even a beach area with sun loungers and umbrellas.

Unfortunately, on the day I took the pictures, it was overcast on this side of the beach, so you won’t be able to appreciate all the beauty from the photo above, but you can still make a superficial assessment.

I want to note an important nuance, in this bay you can sleep peacefully at night, since there are almost no discos and noisy establishments nearby.

Loh Dalam Bay beach on Phi Phi island

This bay has a large, long beach, it is most suitable for beach holiday and sunbathing unlike his neighbor. Here you can rent a sun lounger, the price is 50 baht, or lay your towel on an empty spot on the beach, this is what almost all the young people I met there do.

You can see a photo of Loh Dalam Bay beach below.

Having visited these places, I concluded that the season in Thailand matters, therefore, if you want to see Phi Island in a more beautiful appearance, then it is better to go here from late December to February.

My opinion and feedback about this beach Phi Phi Islands. There are a lot of people, but there are enough places, the sand is white, soft, when the sun comes out very beautifully, the water is clear, azure, the entrance to the sea is pleasant, there are no algae, stones and corals at the bottom, this beach did not cause me negative emotions.

Video of Phi Phi Island from the observation deck

IMPORTANT! Get on observation deck possible on both sides. 1) On the steps through the hotel, you will need to pay 20 baht to enter, go high, hard, be prepared. 2) On the way, you can rent a motorbike to get to the top or pay a taxi driver who will take you (price 250-300 baht (like)), or you can walk, but it's very far. Therefore, it is better to use option N1.

Prices on Phi Phi Island

I will not dig deep into the prices, but I will describe a rough picture of the prices of the island.

  • Food prices: on the streets in macaroons and eateries from 60 baht for a piece of pizza or a plate of Thai food. In restaurants and cafes about 300 baht per person.
  • Housing prices: Shared rooms from 190 baht per bed, a private room from 300-500 baht, a room in a more or less decent hotel from 1200 baht, a room in good hotel from 2500 baht.
  • Entertainment prices: Alcohol on the streets from 150 baht per bucket, there are, prices are the same as everywhere else, hookah 300-400 baht, drinks in bars from 100 baht and above.
  • Prices for excursions: from 600 baht and above, depending on where. (I will write a separate article about this)
  • Massage prices: can be found for 200, but the standard price tag is 300 baht for a Thai massage.
  • Diving prices: from 3500 thousand baht for two dives.

Prices are for 2012, low season, in high season they are about 30-40% higher.

Phi Phi Island at night

With the arrival of night on Phi Phi, on the beach of Loh Dalam Bay, a completely different life wakes up. Bars and beach discos are opening and young people are getting out of their rooms for another dose of adrenaline ... someone from discos, someone from jumping into the crowd, someone from alcohol and other pranks, someone from new acquaintances, and who -something from a fight between your friend or foe ...;)

And now everything described above is only in the photo and video.

Preparations begin for a huge flow of young people who want to break away that night as for the last time ... Merchants are preparing buckets of alcohol, a starter kit ...

Street bakeries prepare mouth-watering pizza... after all, walking all night, and that takes energy...

Now almost everything is ready, waiting in the wings ...

And everyone is waiting ... waiting for their clients, dear, loved ones and only with money, as they say in Pattaya - “ No money, no honey«.

closer to 00:00 hours, the most popular beach bars Slinky, Moken, Woddy, open their doors to long-awaited customers.

Note: most of people in these institutions, these are European youth (USA, England, Spain, etc.), a few Thais, almost no Russians.

The night has just begun, but for the guy in the photo below it is almost over, with the last of his strength he grabbed the flag and tries to stay in this world of fun for at least a couple of minutes ...


Boy is very good...

For some people, just dancing is not enough...

Video on Phi Phi Island

Well, perhaps the most exciting and interesting spectacle is boxing. Unfortunately, I forgot the name of the bar where the ring is located, I don’t think it will be a problem to find it. The bottom line is that you can challenge any bar visitor to a duel, while the winner will receive a free drink. There is no charge for the fight. Total 3 rounds, 2 minutes each, you specify the fighting style in advance - it can be Thai boxing, kickboxing, boxing.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t record the video, my memory ran out, but I really wanted to ... But I still have a few photos of one of the fights for you. Two healthy guys, adequately crushed each other.


Boxing in Phi Phi

At the end of the fight, apparently, the guys had adrenaline going off scale and they didn’t want to stop, as a result, there was almost a fight between the two teams ... The spectacle was interesting ... At that moment it was about 3 o’clock in the morning (as far as my memory serves me), both opponents were drunk. I advise you to visit, and maybe even participate in such a show, it's interesting.

Well, perhaps that's all, I tried to tell and show the most interesting thing that you can see on the island. In the next article I will show you a lot beautiful photos I will tell you about hotels and excursions.

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Mathematicians all over the world eat a piece of cake every year on March 14 - after all, this is the day of Pi, the most famous irrational number. This date is directly related to the number whose first digits are 3.14. Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Since it is irrational, it is impossible to write it as a fraction. This is an infinitely long number. It was discovered thousands of years ago and has been constantly studied ever since, but does Pi have any secrets left? From ancient origins to an uncertain future, here are some of the most interesting facts about pi.

Memorizing Pi

The record for remembering numbers after the decimal point belongs to Rajveer Meena from India, who managed to memorize 70,000 digits - he set the record on March 21, 2015. Before that, the record holder was Chao Lu from China, who managed to memorize 67,890 digits - this record was set in 2005. The unofficial record holder is Akira Haraguchi, who recorded on video his repetition of 100,000 digits in 2005 and recently published a video where he manages to remember 117,000 digits. An official record would only become if this video was recorded in the presence of a representative of the Guinness Book of Records, and without confirmation it remains only an impressive fact, but is not considered an achievement. Mathematics enthusiasts love to memorize the number Pi. Many people use various mnemonic techniques, such as poetry, where the number of letters in each word is the same as pi. Each language has its own variants of such phrases, which help to remember both the first few digits and a whole hundred.

There is a Pi language

Fascinated by literature, mathematicians invented a dialect in which the number of letters in all words corresponds to the digits of Pi in exact order. Writer Mike Keith even wrote a book, Not a Wake, which is completely written in the Pi language. Enthusiasts of such creativity write their works in full accordance with the number of letters and the meaning of the numbers. This has no practical application, but is a fairly common and well-known phenomenon in the circles of enthusiastic scientists.

Exponential Growth

Pi is an infinite number, so people, by definition, will never be able to figure out the exact numbers of this number. However, the number of digits after the decimal point has increased greatly since the first use of the Pi. Even the Babylonians used it, but a fraction of three and one eighth was enough for them. The Chinese and the creators of the Old Testament were completely limited to the three. By 1665, Sir Isaac Newton had calculated 16 digits of pi. By 1719, French mathematician Tom Fante de Lagny had calculated 127 digits. The advent of computers has radically improved man's knowledge of Pi. From 1949 to 1967 the number known to man numbers skyrocketed from 2037 to 500,000. Not so long ago, Peter Trueb, a scientist from Switzerland, was able to calculate 2.24 trillion digits of Pi! This took 105 days. Of course, this is not the limit. It is likely that with the development of technology it will be possible to establish an even more accurate figure - since Pi is infinite, there is simply no limit to accuracy, and only technical features computer technology.

Calculating Pi by hand

If you want to find the number yourself, you can use the old-fashioned technique - you will need a ruler, a jar and string, you can also use a protractor and a pencil. The downside to using a jar is that it has to be round, and accuracy will be determined by how well the person can wrap the rope around it. It is possible to draw a circle with a protractor, but this also requires skill and precision, as an uneven circle can seriously distort your measurements. A more accurate method involves the use of geometry. Divide the circle into many segments, like pizza slices, and then calculate the length of a straight line that would turn each segment into an isosceles triangle. The sum of the sides will give an approximate number of pi. The more segments you use, the more accurate the number will be. Of course, in your calculations you will not be able to come close to the results of a computer, nevertheless, these simple experiments allow you to understand in more detail what Pi is in general and how it is used in mathematics.

Discovery of Pi

The ancient Babylonians knew about the existence of the number Pi already four thousand years ago. The Babylonian tablets calculate Pi as 3.125, and the Egyptian mathematical papyrus contains the number 3.1605. In the Bible, the number Pi is given in an obsolete length - in cubits, and the Greek mathematician Archimedes used the Pythagorean theorem to describe Pi, the geometric ratio of the length of the sides of a triangle and the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe figures inside and outside the circles. Thus, it is safe to say that Pi is one of the most ancient mathematical concepts, although the exact name of this number has appeared relatively recently.

A new take on Pi

Even before pi was related to circles, mathematicians already had many ways to even name this number. For example, in ancient mathematics textbooks one can find a phrase in Latin, which can be roughly translated as "the quantity that shows the length when the diameter is multiplied by it." The irrational number became famous when the Swiss scientist Leonhard Euler used it in his work on trigonometry in 1737. However, the Greek symbol for pi was still not used - it only happened in a book by the lesser-known mathematician William Jones. He used it as early as 1706, but it was long neglected. Over time, scientists adopted this name, and now this is the most famous version of the name, although before it was also called the Ludolf number.

Is pi normal?

The number pi is definitely strange, but how does it obey the normal mathematical laws? Scientists have already resolved many questions related to this irrational number, but some mysteries remain. For example, it is not known how often all digits are used - the numbers from 0 to 9 should be used in equal proportion. However, statistics can be traced for the first trillion digits, but due to the fact that the number is infinite, it is impossible to prove anything for sure. There are other problems that still elude scientists. It is quite possible that further development science will help shed light on them, but on this moment it remains outside the human intellect.

Pi sounds divine

Scientists cannot answer some questions about the number Pi, however, every year they understand its essence better. Already in the eighteenth century, the irrationality of this number was proved. In addition, it has been proved that the number is transcendental. This means that there is no definite formula that would allow you to calculate pi using rational numbers.

Dissatisfaction with Pi

Many mathematicians are simply in love with Pi, but there are those who believe that these numbers have no special significance. In addition, they claim that the number Tau, which is twice the size of Pi, is more convenient to use as an irrational one. Tau shows the relationship between the circumference and the radius, which, according to some, represents a more logical method of calculation. However, it is impossible to unambiguously determine anything in this matter, and one and the other number will always have supporters, both methods have the right to life, so this is just an interesting fact, and not a reason to think that you should not use the number Pi.

It is better to talk about the island of Phi Phi (the locals call it that, despite the attempts of Russians to pronounce every letter and call the island Phi Phi) with a set of facts, rather than a coherent narrative, because there is not much to connect there.

Pee-pee suffered the most during the tsunami of seven years ago, but now you can’t tell from him at all. Abkhazia was at war with Georgia twenty years ago, and the closer to Georgia the traces of this war are, the more visible, as if nothing had been done in the country for twenty years. Here, one can only remember about the destruction by reading Wikipedia or news sites of the end of 2004. The island is in perfect condition. There is an assumption that Abkhazians don’t give a damn about a lot, including whether tourists go to them or not (they don’t go - and very well, there is less hassle), but Thais don’t give a damn.

Pi-Pi is a pedestrian island. Where you can’t walk through the jungle - you can swim by boat (taxi boat, to the beach next to the pier - 100 baht per person). Therefore, there are no bikes here, in principle, except for those with carts, where closer to night they collect garbage around the island, and one bike for a policeman.

So the Thais ride bikes around the island. On average, the speed of a bicycle follows the speed of loitering tourists, so any benefit to the cyclist is doubtful. But on its way, every ten meters it rings a bell: part! There are dozens of cyclists, everyone has a booming bell, you can’t do without it, so the streets are noisy and fun.

Phi Phi Island is very beautiful and very expensive. For the package tourists-mattresses that I met before leaving, this was no problem: you just had to get hooked (or be born) in Moscow, fuck everyone available works from morning to late night, as all Muscovites do, save up half a million dollars in a year, and it will be something to spend in a month in Thailand. Therefore, they looked at me condescendingly, as if I were a fool-backpacker, and they themselves complained to each other that, they say, they were filming in Phuket good hotel for 2,000 rubles a day, and everything was more or less there, but here, on Pi-Pi, they rent a room for 3,000 rubles a day, and they like it less. It is clear that they only went to dinner at tourist restaurants on the main street, and the look of eateries for the locals made them cringe, because, they say, how can you eat something there when a pizza is brought to you in a restaurant, and there - some kind of chicken or duck with rice.

Generally speaking, there is nothing to do on P.P. but sleep, eat, sunbathe, swim, and, so to speak, free software. As a free program, there are purchased aunts in a small number, a dozen disco bars on the coast, where people merge in the ecstasy of obebos, and several cafes of a mysterious orientation, in which a joint costs 200 rubles and knocks an adult horse down. Therefore, the only entertainment on the island is water excursions to the nearest islands: with scuba gear or just with a mask and fins.

The high cost of Pi-Pi is offset by its beauty. I, a traveler without experience, have never seen a more fabulous and colorful place in my life. But when going there, keep in mind that in many respects, for example, it is twice (!) More expensive than Bangkok.

1. The cheapest accommodation of more or less decent cost on Ppi (at a discount) 800 baht per day - without air conditioning and water heater. In the Khaosan area, at half past six in the morning, I found a tolerable guest house with a fan on the ceiling (my dream), a water heater and air conditioning for 400 baht. And it was the most expensive category of rooms that they had left. Rooms without air conditioning and with a shower on the floor cost about two hundred baht, but they were occupied by tourists greedier than me.

2. In the laundries on Phi Phi, as if by agreement, they keep the price of 50 baht per kilogram of linen. The first thing I saw when I got out of the taxi in Khaosan was the price tag for laundry - 25 baht.

3. Street food, coconut water, necks, pancakes and other tasty and healthy trifles - an average of 50 baht versus 30.

So, one might say, I fled with P-P when I realized that another day or two, and there would be nothing left of my budget at all. It would be more money - would remain, of course, more. It's really magical there.

What's on Pi-Pi, what's on Koh Samui, and, probably, in others resort areas at the entrance to the hotels there are announcements with the following content: “It is strictly forbidden to bring whores to the rooms! The fine is 500 baht. Pay the fine and drive anyone."

The isthmus between two bays is the narrowest point of the island. If it were not for the crowd of tourists, then you can go through it in a few minutes. With Europeans staring around, the journey will stretch twice or three times. But we're not in a hurry, right?

One evening I went for a walk towards The Long Beach. Someone, somewhere, heard from someone that this is, they say, the most fucking beach on the entire island. I got on the stones with which the entire coast is strewn. Well, what the hell, the beach itself and the beach. The same sand, only far away and a lot of stones. The beach near my rooming house is much better.

From The Long Beach, such a failed lift leads to the city, which has become a sign.

To prevent a broken tree from simply disappearing, a Buddha was carved out of it.

From this side of the island, the sunset turned out to be unimportant, because the sun did not go to the sea, as everyone loves to take pictures of it, but the village behind the mountains.

At low tide, the water moves away from the shore for a hundred meters, or even more.

Let's give a little civilization to the coastal stones.

On one of my last days on Phi Phi, we went on a tour of the nearest islands with Russian packets. One of them was the so-called little Pi-Pi, which even in English has two spellings, not to mention Russian pronunciations. Everyone was just talking about the fact that the movie "The Beach" was filmed on it - apparently the only merit of the island. It seems that if it were just beautiful island by itself, without a trace of DiCaprio, then no one would even spit on him.

We, like real mattress pads, arrived with a dozen of exactly the same boats, so the whole beach was occupied with people, everyone was swarming in the water and taking billions of photographs of “I am against the backdrop of the bay.”

Against this background, yes.

But my money began to melt like ice from 7/11 in a glass of rum-cola, and for economic reasons, P.P. had to go to Bangkok.

A paradoxical situation for Russia-Ukraine, but combined ticket to Bangkok (the so-called joint ticket) it is more profitable to buy in small travel agency shops scattered throughout tourist places. The way from Pi-Pi to Bangkok looks like this: first on a big boat - to the mainland (Krabi); then from the pier on a windowless clunker to a hidden dick knows where the bus station is; at the bus station, which you wouldn’t just get on foot, you can finally have breakfast and lunch; then by bus to Suratani, then by tuk-tuk to another bus station, where finally a direct night bus to Bangkok is waiting. Let's start with the fact that a joint ticket costs 600 rubles with all transfers and transfers (of which 150 are a boat and 450 are buses), and on the pier, a boat ticket alone will cost three hundred. And when you sail to the mainland, no one except taxi drivers will take you anywhere. That is, in this case, an “independent” trip, when you do not use the services of any agencies, but buy all the tickets yourself, will cost, firstly, more expensive, and secondly, it will take so much energy that you already have a couple of transfers want nothing more.

This is how we arrived in Bangkok at five in the morning. All the way, my throat was constantly sore, exhausted, apparently, by icy necks, although I began to torment it long before it suddenly decided to rebel. Somewhere in the back of the head, wrapped in a blanket, the air conditioner blew. The Polish woman unfolded the front seat so that her legs could be stretched out, putting them on her ears.

However, we arrived. Taxi drivers swarmed over the night bus like ants on a dead May beetle.
- Guys, a taxi is inexpensive, where you need to go, - they repeated word for word after their Kiev colleagues.

In order to decide where I am and where I should go, the charge of the phone would not be enough. It was clearly not a bus station, but just some nice place, and for some reason the driver wanted to drop us all right here. Catching a tuk-tuk or waiting for a bus (which one?) at five in the morning was stupid. The taxi driver who did get me to get to the Khaosan area asked for 200, which was suspicious. Because at five in the morning he would not have taken a tourist wrapped up in a road for such money, which means that Khaosan is somewhere very close. Well fuck him, let's go. There are cases when, in terms of the ratio of time, costs and comfort, two hundred rubles to a taxi driver is the best way. At least the least brainy.

We stopped at a traffic light. Then suddenly the taxi driver neighs:
- Ahahaha! Ahaha! Thais yesterday ... - he didn’t have enough vocabulary for further, and he made a characteristic gesture, hitting the butt of his fist with the palm of one hand. - Boom-boom! - He added and pointed to the sidewalk.

There was nothing special on the sidewalk. The boy was withdrawing money from an ATM, and the girl was waiting for him in the back seat of the motorcycle.

Boom Boom! - the taxi driver repeated with a laugh and again clapped his fist with his palm.

The fucking gesture was quite unambiguous, but no one has yet voiced frictions as “boom-boom”. “Thai boxing, maybe yesterday?” I thought. And only then, when the guy drove off, I saw in the hands of the girl a long rose wrapped in a transparent film, and a huge red pillow in the shape of a heart with a white inscription "LOVE". "Valentine's Day, fuck you," Stirlitz guessed.

Naybalovo taxi driver was revealed in about five minutes, which we were driving from the bus stop to Khaosan. Seeing familiar places, but not even trying to appeal to anyone's conscience, for some reason I held out:
- Yeah, shit, I didn't know it was that close...
The taxi driver ignored my words.

The search for housing was complicated by the fact that it was five in the morning and everyone was sleeping. After leaving Khaosan, I started wandering around the neighboring streets until I found myself in a quiet part of Rambutri. The most persistent drank beer in a night bar, an elderly European was sleeping right on the stove with a bag under his head, taxi drivers were talking about something with a policeman, and two prostitutes walked in front of me, and the left one from the back made me want to get married. Slender legs, butt barely covered by a dress, bare back, black hair below the shoulders. I didn’t want to fall from a fairy tale into a harsh reality, so I, walking behind and admiring, preferred that she not turn around. But she turned around.

In general, Thai women are not particularly beautiful. In order for someone you meet on the street to really like, you need to walk more than one hundred meters. And with prostitutes, the opposite is true: you still need to look for an ugly one. In short, my fiancee was beautiful. In her hand she held a rose, as thin as the girl herself, in a film.
"Happy Valentine's Day," she murmured and handed me a flower.
- And you ... also, - I answered, taking a breath, but I did not accept the rose.
She took my arm and time stopped for me.
- Where are you going? she asked.

I looked like a real macho who puts women to bed with one commanding look. Women squeak and cum profusely, shaking all over. I was the same: sandals in the sand, shorts not washed for a couple of days, a sweaty T-shirt that hung on me like a shroud after global weight loss, a hiking backpack behind my back and a hunted-fucked look. Add to this sixteen hours on the bedchambers and the beginning of a sore throat - well, I'm the spitting image of my youth. However, the girl was not timid and did not collapse to beat in an orgasm in the middle of Rambutri. Or maybe my eyes weren't strong enough.
“Yes, I’m thinking where to sleep,” I answered boredly.
- So come to us! The beauty perked up.
"No," he muttered. me - thank you of course, but...
"Well, why," she drawled, as if annoyed.
- I'm out of the way, tired, dirty and fucked up. Come on, I say, next time.
- Well then, see you tomorrow, - she cheered up and threw in parting: - Otherwise he could come to us!
I looked after them, and at that moment I wanted to wash, rest, sleep, recover and run after them.

Phi Phi Islands

One of the most luxurious and expensive hotels on the island Phi Phi.
Choosing a hotel on Phi Phi Island is as easy as in any other places. However, going here, you need to know which hotels stand out against the general background for their presentability, comfort and quality service. That is why the choice will not be among inexpensive economy-class hostels, but truly luxurious hotel complexes, where all the wishes of the guest are fulfilled immediately and at a high level.

Of course, the cost of a room in such hotels cannot be affordable for every tourist. But if there is an opportunity to treat yourself to chic, then why not? Spend some unforgettable nights in one of the comfortable hotels?

Phi Phi Island Village Beach Resort& Spa

The luxurious hotel is located in an amazing and downright heavenly place - a beach with a fabulous view of the Andaman Sea. The 5-star hotel settles its guests in comfortable tropical bungalows with a beautiful and cozy interior in Thai style.

You can pretty much refresh yourself in the hotel restaurant, which serves fresh seafood, dishes of not only Thai, but also international cuisine. Relax and rejuvenate at the spa. There is also a tour desk where you can book various trips and services. You can either scuba dive (scuba diving) or jump off a cliff (cliff diving). One night will cost from 6,000 baht, but for such a pleasure, you don’t feel sorry for more.

Zeavola Resort

A 5-star hotel miracle in Phi Phi called "Zeavola Resort" will be able to impress vacationers with its luxury and natural beauty. The hotel is located on the beach, which is its private property. Rooms and villas are just drowned in the green tropical jungle, which seems to make them one.

The restaurant has a great opportunity to taste dishes of Thai and European cuisine. The spa center offers traditional treatments and combined unusual services for everyone. It is not for nothing that this hotel is called one of the best not only in Phi Phi, but throughout the Kingdom of Thailand. The price per night varies from 8 thousand baht and more. Although this hotel is unlikely to be suitable for tourists who want to relax economically, it is worth the money that you need to shell out for all this splendor.

Holiday Inn Resort Phi Phi Island

Among all the hotels in this list, this one is the most economical option. The price for one night is 4200 baht. For true romantics who find charm in spending time on the beach, watching the sunrise or sunset, this hotel will be a real find.

The rooms are furnished in traditional Thai style and the view from the hotel is amazing. The hotel area has several restaurants where you can taste traditional Thai cuisine, taste the freshest seafood and try dishes of international cuisine. For especially romantic and lovers, there is a dinner order service right on the seashore. The beach itself belongs to the hotel, so its guests can dive from the shore.

Phi Phi - So there were three expensive hotel on the island Phi Phi, for the rest in which, indeed, you will not regret any money.