My Trip to Krabi Thailand

During my month-long trip to the beautiful, beautiful country of Thailand, Krabi is where I found I needed some crucial self-care! Which I KIND of got. I spent lots of time drinking on the beach, getting massages the next day to cure my hangover and even getting eyelash extensions…About that…

Well, I was very on edge about the shop I went to as nothing in Krabi is updated or modernized. I went into this dry pastel blue salon with cracked concrete walls & dirty tiled floors, I saw packs of eyelash extensions, hair color, and acrylic nails thinking “oh no what have I done here, let’s just do this I need a lash fill anyways.” To my pleasant surprise, I had been put on Facebook live while this lady was doing work on my lashes! With all the Thai people in the world to view my face, I could hear a lot of ooh’s and awe’s, but I’m glad she could share her work with her own world and show them what she was worth- BECAUSE SHE WAS GOOD it turns out, her lash work was the best I have ever had, I felt so bad for continually repeating “I would like a natural look”. They were just gorgeous! On that note, I will get to my next experience.

The island of Krabi is tiny! But very adorable. Krabi has a small strip of bars, clubs, restaurants and salons I’ll begin by saying that’s where the first 3-4 days were wells spent until, the inevitable had come to me. I’m going to give you a bit of a back story to let you know we hadn’t been drugged, but only just that the second biggest vacation bummer had happened to us.

We had been traveling from South to North Thailand & back to South of Thailand for three weeks now spending 4 to 5 days in each place and then on to the next plane, ferry, and jet boat ride going to the neighboring island. Not to mention Krabi was a smaller island for relaxing but we did just a little of that, we were out just about every night on the small strip, bar hopping and eating, socializing with other foreigners and the locals. It was during one of those moments, my boyfriend had contracted the flu, YES the flu, not the date rape drug! My healthy, metabolized boyfriend Kai had caught the flu and passed it onto me. How refreshing! The guy only had it for two days while I had it for the rest of our trip. I can just remember going in out of consciousness on our bathroom floor and coming back to life thanking god we had a bathtub and AC. Then it was the bathroom to bed, and back to the toilet and back to the bed once more for the next week.

Traveling back to Bangkok to catch our flight back home was true, absolute hell I tell you. Luckily for me, Thailand has no shortage of pharmacies or medicine that coats your stomach & looks like drain o! If you are EVER in need of some stomach-soothing liquids in Thailand, WHITE RABBIT is your new best friend! Believe me when I say NOTHING else is going to help you.

Once I got to the airport I had been holding it all in and just when I think we are good, literally right before the security checkpoint, my bags are going through the detectors, and there it goes next thing I know I’m retching in the toilet with a pack of really concerned commuters just trying to wash their hands in the lavatory! – it certainly was the most uncomfortable thing coming out to see the terrified look on their faces like I was some sort of abnormity, which I guess is exactly what I was at the time…

So that was it, that was my experience on Krabi Island. If I can give you some tips it’s just to take a chill trip to Thailand and don’t try to travel to 20 different places in a month, you are going to get the travelers bug and you won’t always be as lucky as Mr. Kai the healthy guy with it only lasting two days. But maybe you’ll end up rather unlucky like myself. Either way, I wish you well! One last thing to remember is to always prepare yourself with a bottle of White Rabbit and have fun! I look back on this trip and appreciate the awful-ly good experience.