Krabi 2017

This is my family 4 days & 3 nights vacation to Krabi, Thailand. We go there by air and there are a lot of Malaysian go to Krabi by road just 5 hours from Malaysia – Thailand border. The flight take around 1 hours from KLIA.

We stay at Krabi Heritage Hotel at Ao Nang. Ao Nang seem to be the main place of attraction because the Krabi town itself kinda have nothing special. 1st day we just sight seeing around Ao Nang town and the beach and we go to Gastropod Fosil Beach to buy some souvenir. The souvenir is a bit cheaper compare to Ao Nang town.

Second day we charter a boat and go kinda of Island hoping without exactly hoping to the Island because the conservation fees for each Island quite expensive. Stop at middle of the sea at Chicken Island for some snorkeling. Lunch and some swimming at Phra Nang beach, no conservation fees here.

 

3rd day we rent a car and go to Emerald Pool and Hot Stream pool. These place are about 60km from Ao Nang around 1 to 1 1/2 hrs journey.

The last day just a free and easy session and waiting for the delay flight at the airport.

Overall, a nice place to visit, place to stay are around Ao Nang town and beach, this is where the main attractions are. The hotel quite cheap during off season, it is even cheaper is just go there by walk in without prior booking. Foods are simply expensive not because of the exchange rate, it just expensive… Nasi Lemak Telur Mata is around RM10, most of the food are above RM10 where the same food we can buy in Malaysia 2 or 3 times cheaper.

All images captured with Panasonic Lumix GM1 + Panasonic 20/1.7 and 12-24mm lens

Panasonic Lumix GM1 – A Simple Review

I am not new to M4/3, used to own Olympus E-PL1 then sold it because needed a smaller camera for travelling. Bought Panasonic Lumix LX-7 then sold it because the low light performance is not that great. Nearly buy the Sony RX100 MKIII until I found a review for Panasonic GM1 by Blunty (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs3dkdtKimQ). From this one review I seek another review and another and another, finally I own it! The camera is tiny, smaller than the RX100.

From the review, GM1 kit lens 12-32mm OIS is damn sharp and it really is. This is the best kit zoom lens in mirrorless world even better than kit lens in DSLR world. The camera internal like the sensor, image quality and video quality are taken from Panasonic GX7 and that is great. The low light performance is excellent.

I also bought the legendary Panasonic pancake 20mm F1.7 (used) lens and it really brought out the best of GM1. Very sharp, great bokeh and really small and light. Great Lens for Street Photography.

Video also great and there is a video test by EOSHD Community that GM1 video quality surpass its big brother The Panasonic GH3 and Nikon D5200 DSLR (https://vimeo.com/80951606).

Many reviewers claimed the camera is hard to handle due to its small size. I really don’t have a problem with it and the touch screen really helpful. The battery life not so great, need to have a spare battery.