What Dangerous Animals Are in Krabi, Thailand? (2023 update)
Small brown Krabi scorpion with potential for great pain.
Essentials
Krabi essentials to know when traveling in the country and visiting beaches, mountains, attractions, events, restaurants, and more. | KrabiNature.com
Krabi On a Budget – Save Money and Enjoy Paradise in 2023!
This article provides tips on how to travel to Krabi on a budget, including where to stay, eat, and play. We have lived here for 16 years, so we know how you can best go about it! Getting To Krabi Traveling to Krabi is not too difficult and a number of options exist. Krabi is … Read more
Songkran in Krabi in 2023
Songkran officially starts tomorrow across Thailand and so Krabi has been getting excited about it as well. Since COVID there has not been a no-holds-barred Songkran celebration and people are anxious to get this going. We were already hit with water in the car as there were some early morning partiers getting into the festivities … Read more
How to Take a Train to Krabi in 2023
Many people want to take a train to Krabi, Thailand and they ask us how they can do it. The train system in Thailand is not the best laid-out transportation in the world! There are trains that go from the furthest provinces south up through Nakhon Si Thammarat, Surat Thani, and then further up the … Read more
25 Tips to Save You Money in Thailand in 2023
Here is a collection of 25 tips to save you money while traveling to Thailand. Some of the tips may seem extreme, like “stay away from the islands” but, keep in mind there are those that want to save a lot of money and those that want to see what Thailand has to offer as … Read more
Satun, Thailand Wang Prachan Visa Run in 2023
Most ex-pats in the south of Thailand are living on the island of Phuket, so they shoot right up to Ranong, Myanmar (Burma) for their visa runs. There are many services that offer the runs. Many expats living in Krabi, Phang Nga, and Surat, also hit the Ranong border for their visa stamps. This is … Read more
Krabi, Thailand – UK Man and Woman Tourists Viciously Attacked with Knife
Two UK tourists, walking along the beach in Ao Nang, Krabi, Thailand were accosted by a group of youths. The man received multiple stab wounds from a long knife, the worst resulting in a heavily bleeding head wound. (October 2012) If you’re like me, you probably discount some of the Thai on foreigner violence that … Read more
American Tourist Murdered Outside Bar in Ao Nang, Krabi, Thailand
This happened a few years ago (August 2013) and yet I wanted to show you that Krabi is not perfectly safe. No place is. Not what I wanted to read yesterday, the headline was shocking. I only know a couple of Americans in Krabi, but there was a chance I knew this one. Bobby Carter, … Read more
Dogs in Krabi, Thailand 2023 – a Different Breed
Most dogs are cool in Krabi, but be careful because many dogs in Thailand don’t like the smell of foreigners. The way that Thai people treat their dogs and the leeway they give them is astounding to me. I have finally come to accept it as I have most things here. They call them soi … Read more
Chikungunya in Thailand in 2023 – FAQ
Chikungunya (chee-koon-gun-ya) and also spelled as “Chicken guinea”, “Chicken gunaya,” and “Chickengunya”, comes from the African Swahili language, where it means “to bend up”. When severely affected with joint pain a person bends up like a ninety-year-old, hunched over in pain. Most symptoms are similar to Dengue Fever. Chikungunya is a mosquito-born virus carried by the … Read more