Yesterday was an exciting day... we were still on Phi Phi and determined to find our way to monkey beach. we rented a kayak and set out, slathered in sunscreen, rotten bananas in hand, and a general idea of where we needed to paddle to get to the beach. Our tryak (that is a kayak for three :) reached the beach no problem, and we were happy to see there was hardly anyone there! we spotted the monkeys immediately (or more accurately, they spotted us), and we headed over to feed them. turns out our idea of feeding the monkeys, and their idea of being fed, was very different. as we got close to them to start handing out bananas (in the very calm and fair manner we believed necessary for every monkey to get their share of bananas), one of the large males charged aggressively and in a split second all hell broke loose! monkeys were coming at us and we were screaming and kor was getting grabbed by little monkey hands and in an effort to take the attention off of ourselves we sacrificed the entire bag of bananas (totally panicked, I chucked it across the beach, guilty as charged - but in my defense it did distract the monkeys long enough for us to escape without contracting rabies)...
we retreated into the ocean, the only place we were able to find refuge from the angry, teeth-flaunting grins of the monkeys. only then could we laugh nervously about what had just happened. we decided it was maybe level three fun, it was going to take a while before we could really look back at our experience at monkey beach and say it was fun/funny (you'd think with a Thai speaker we would have had some warning, but no, the vicious monkeys were a completely unpleasant surprise)...
Once more tourists started to arrive, we decided that the best form of entertainment was to watch the unsuspecting visitors try to befriend the aggressive monkeys, and when one of the little guys snuck up and snatched a tourist's can of pop (and proceeded to sip from it with both hands like a human), we couldn't stop laughing. the snorkeling at monkey beach was amazing, and we felt safe in the water, so that occupied the rest of our time there. when a big tourist boat arrived we asked if we could come on board to jump off of the second story roof, which we did several times while the life-jacket clad passengers looked on a little shocked that we were taking over their boat for our shenanigans.
After a couple of hours we decided to leave monkey hell (yes, we renamed the beach). A short paddle back to the main beach (we were going with the waves and wind this time), and we went in search of our meeting place for the next adventure we had planned... a camping trip to Maya Bay, located on an island off of Ko Phi Phi (the location where they filmed the movie The Beach). This was going to be one of our most ultimate travel experiences yet.
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