{"id":64,"date":"2007-07-04T20:00:18","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2007-08-01T06:14:53","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T18:14:53","slug":"railay-bay-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"Railay Bay, Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another long day of travelling, involving two flights (both with Air Asia), Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to Bangkok, Thailand, followed by a 4 hour wait, before flying onto Krabi on the Southern coast. I decided to travel via Krabi, rather than Phuket, to avoid the high tourist numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The 10km journey by Long Tail boat took 45min, through some rough seas. An umbrella was offered to provide some protection from the sea swells crashing over the bow, but I still ended up drenched once again.<\/p>\n<p>I stayed at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railay.com\/railay\/accommodation\/sand_sea.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Sand Sea Resort<\/a> for around NZ$75, but the views were simply amazing, the swimming pool refreshing and the beach side dining relaxing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1662.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1662sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nArriving to East Railay, with West Railay a short 200metre stroll through another resort<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1691.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1691sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWest Railay, whilst the clouds still loom<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1694.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1694sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTranquil Railay Bay<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1705.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1705sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe epitome of Thailand&#8217;s beaches<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1709.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1709sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLooking to the Southern end of West Railay Bay &#8211; Sand Sea Resort is 3\/4s the way along<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1713.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1713sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFrom within the water, at the cliff dominating the Northern end of Railay Bay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another long day of travelling, involving two flights (both with Air Asia), Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to Bangkok, Thailand, followed by a 4 hour wait, before flying onto Krabi on the Southern coast. I decided to travel via Krabi, rather than Phuket, to avoid the high tourist numbers. The 10km journey by Long Tail boat took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-landscape","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}