Toe by Toe Gin

Day 4, 2025 year end ride to Phuket.
Arrived the town of Krabi, during holidays the town gets to be crowded with tourists. Can be hard to find accomodations, there is a park and camp near hatnoparathara park with toilet and shower facilities.

Day 4, 2025 year end ride to Phuket.
On the way to Krabi, you can see this temple situated on top of limestone cliff. Took a detour, turns out you have to hike up a thousand steep steps, 1260 steps to be exact as stated on the stairway. The effort was well worth it, as the summit offers a breathtaking panoramic view of Krabi’s mountains, forests, and coastline.
Sitting majestically at the top of the hill, the enormous golden Buddha statue serves as a symbol of peace and spiritual enlightenment

Day 4, 2025 year end ride to Phuket.
Not fan of crowded places but as tourist being tourist Took a detour for this touristy attraction Blue pool and emerald pool located near Krabi. Need to wait and enter once its opens in the morning. So Famous that it gets easily get crowded.
Arrived late in the afternoon and not allowed to camp inside the national park. Since at the area already, decided to find cheap accomodation in the area then early bird the next morning to avoid crowds.
It lives up to its name emerald and blue colored pools. Crystal clear even when crowd takes over.

Day 4, 2025 year end ride to Phuket
Following the coastline of the Andaman Sea.
Random sand bar along Pak Meng beach!

Day 3, 2025 year end ride to Phuket
From mountain breeze to sea breeze of the Andaman coastline. Hammock 🏕️ at Chao Mai National park, toilet and shower facilities are available perfect after taking your vitamin sea.
Morning walk at Koh Bae Na, floating bridge and wooden platforms raised to hike around the island seeing Rock formations, secret beach and might even spot dugongs.

Day 3, 2025 year end tide to Phuket.
From mountain national parks of shifting to the coastline of Andaman sea, weather started to improve and hot too.

Day 2, 2025 year end ride to Phuket.
As the day ends, need to find a place to settle. Google map showed a lot of viewpoint and campsites on the area but was not accurate, I was lost following unknown road trying to find a place to camp. I found myself to this top of the hill then starts raining. It was hard to approach people due to language barrier, asked for a place to stay and the owner was very kind to offer a space to pitch my tent. The area is famous for picturesque mountain, valleys sunrise and sea of clouds view. Not lucky for the perfect view the next morning but still had a great clearing.
Very thankful to the owner, even gave me food when I left the next morning. Sadly, only to be stolen by a monkey on my next camp area.

Day 2, 2025 year end ride to Phuket.
Next morning, not far from Ton nga chang is another waterfall called Ton Ploi waterfall. Another multi tiered waterfall with a large pool at the bottom perfect for swimming.

Day 1 during the 2025 Year End ride to Phuket.
Camped at Ton Nga Chang wildlife nature park for a 200baht entrance fee. Hiked around 30mins to the upper levels of Ton Nga Chang waterfall a long and multi tiered cascade waterfall similar to Lata Kinjang in Chenderiang MY.

My last destination and exit point by bus going back to Dumai Port for a ferry transport back to Malacca.
A bit of sightseeing in Padang City the capital of West Sumatra. Few visited sites such as the Grand Mosque of Sumatra 2nd largest in Sumatra, roof design similar to those traditional Minangkabau houses.
Eat and drink by the beach while enjoying the view of sunset.

Vast tea farms, strawberry fields along the way to Padang City.

Main goal was supposedly to summit Mt. Kerinci before heading back, but the route was difficult than expected 😂 With limited touring days, decided to summit Mt. Talang instead which is another active volcano and along the route. Abang Mus happened to have contact in the place that made easier to find a guide and a place to stay.
2-3 hours to the summit if starting in the trailhead which you need to pay a motorcycle transport to get you there from the town. Started early in the morning for the sunrise and be back before lunch.
Once at the summit, with luck you can get rewarded with beautiful sunrise and sea of clouds, you got a peek of Mt. Kerinci dubbed as the rooftop of Sumatra and other neighboring mountains Tandikat, Singgalang, Marapi, Sago. A view of the multiple lakes Singkarak, Dibawah, Diatas and Talang. Summit an active volcano ✅ Definitely will be back for Mt. Kerinci!