Thursday 19th April 2012 - Krabi, Tonsai beach

I had intended to leave today but woke up really late as my headache was still awful. I was slowly packing when Maria came over to see me. She asked about my headache and offered to try and soothe the pain with some kind of rocks. She is a spiritual girl so although to me it just felt like she was standing behind me holding a rock at either side of my head she said that she was working with my energies. My head was pounding more on the right side so you can imagine my shock when she said that the energy coming from the right side was a lot stronger and more imbalanced. She felt my shoulders and said that my headache might be because of tension and that I should get a massage.  After the rocks I explained to Maria that i hadn't been feeling very happy and that I no longer felt motivated. She said to me that my body was probably tired of moving from place to place and that I should just try sticking in one place for longer. It made sense as I had literally spent no longer that five days in each place and I am not exactly the most physically fit person. Even if this theory wasn't correct it was probably best for me to stick at Tonsai for a bit longer anyway or until I had finished the book I had bought. Tonsai really is the place to chill out and just become one with nature - especially the place I am staying. It is a little hut hidden away in the trees surrounded by beautiful cliffs. I often just walk around the area and see monkeys (the black ones with the white faces), squirrels, geckos, butterflies and crazy looking insects. Even just sitting outside my hut i am surrounded by nothing but beautiful nature.  Knowing that I would stay for a few days longer I headed over to put some clothes in to get washed and then proceeded towards the beach to get food. I saw a massage place on the beach and decided that I should try it out. Maria had told me the thai massages are amazing so if it didn't get rid of my headache then I wouldn't have really lost anything as I would have experienced a Thai massage.  The Thai massage was the best massage I have ever had! This little beautiful Thai woman put me in positions that I didn't even know I could do. She climbed on my back, she clicked my spine backwards, and at one point she was underneath me on her back with me laying on her legs facing upwards. It was the most bizarre thing I have ever experienced but she probably stretched every single muscle in my body and more! It was an hour long and cost me the equivalent of just over £5. The best £5 I have ever spent, and guess what, my headache went! After the massage I walked next door and ate in a restaurant - beef noodle soup and prawn toast. The food wasn't that great but the people seemed lovely, especially my waiter - the wind was really strong and was blowing my hair in my face constantly while I was trying to eat so he gave me his new era hat to wear while I ate!! After I had eaten I pulled out my phone and was writing my blog when these two little cute Thai girls and a little boy stood over my shoulder checking out what I was doing. They giggled when I looked around smiling at them. They lived behind the restaurant and their family worked there and were sitting on the table opposite. I ended up letting them play angry birds and bejewelled which seemed to make them happy for a while but then they wanted more games - I didn't have anymore. Then they discovered instagram. It was adorable! They ran around excitedly taking photos of everyone and everything, including photos of them pulling faces. The sun was starting to go down and the mosquitos had bitten me four times in the space of 10minutes so I decided that I should go and get my repellent. When I tried to explain to the oldest girl that I was going to go and come back but she could look after my phone, she asked two different people what I had said to make sure that she understood me correctly and that it was ok for her to hold onto it - she was the cutest thing.  When I came back I had at least 30beautiful new photos of them, the cliffs, their pet squirrel, the cute baby of the owners of the restaurant, my waiter, the chef and loads more!!  They sang Thai songs to me, tried to teach my Thai games, and at one point had a book out with pictures of different animals and were telling me what they meant in Thai. They didn't speak much English at all but you could just tell what beautiful children they were. I ended up buying them banana fritters and honey which lit their little faces up and had their family thanking me. It was really nice.  After leaving I went and bought some snacks and headed to my room for a reading session.