Krabi - Day 3

Day 3: Krabi Town

There really isn't much to see in Krabi Town, but the guide book talked about a nice temple, and we wanted an "easy" day so we grabbed what they call a bus and headed into town.

The Kaew Grovaram temple was impressive but still under construction, and we didn't go inside because the monks were chanting and we didn't want to interrupt anything.

As we were climbing the stairs to see the temple we noticed what looked like another temple so we went to check it out. It turned out to be a monastery. There was a monk outside the gate and I asked if I could take his picture, and although he agreed he didn't seem all that happy about it. We looked around the monastery (which turned out to be quite extensive grounds) and what we noticed is that it seemed to be grouped into certain sections - a section for the older male monks, on the other side a section for female monks, and next to this a section for young male monks. There were also a lot of animals - wild dogs and tiny puppies, cats and kittens, roosters, chickens and chicks, all roaming freely and living in perfect harmony, not to mention a couple of caged peacocks near the entrance.

Before returning to our hotel we decided to walk to the river. It was low tide and there were these crazy walking fish on the bank! I took a video - check it out for yourself (if you watch carefully you'll notice that they go to the water to suck some up before venturing out). Does anyone know what these things are??