Aonang Beach First there was nothing.... Krabi was just another sleepy hollow in the malaise evoking town in the Kra Isthmus. The Hollywood doyens looking upon an exotic location to shoot their next money spinning movie remembered such a place on their tour of duty to Vietnam. Their mission (The movie: The Man with the Golden Gun, 1974) was a great success. Suddenly everybody wanted to be James Bond and would not sleep until they had seen the exotic location where the baddie operated! Everybody knows Bangkok (with its golden temples, bars, the massage parlours...), Chiengmai, Hatyai, Phuket but Krabi... Leo does not necessarily refer to lion lineage. Here it is a short form for Leopold! The businessmen got excited. Boom came the highways and the travel tour agents. Since everybody could fly, swoosh came an international airport plying routes to include lands whose occupants could pronounce 'Kr' as easily as kroner and to those where the alphabet 'r...
It is all Mimesis