Sawadee...

  Phuket, Thailand
Friday, March 30, 2007

An exotic land of creative people... Seriously the Thais' are such creative individuals. Art, craft, dance, theater.. amazing. These people re-use rubbish, scraps of paper, old tin cans and turn them into an art-gallery-piece! (pic above is of a public toilet, an elephant made of Pepsi cans, soap carved into a flower!)


6th October
9:00am - Rolled out of bed, got dressed munched on some left over food.
10:00am- Left for the airport.
12:45pm-Fly to Phuket.
1:00pm(phuket time)- Arrive at Phuket Airport.
3:00pm- Arrive at Resort (p.s immigration check took us 1 hour plus!) 4:30pm-Left for Phuket town, looked for a hotel to check into for saturday night.
7:00pm-Left for Patong beach to watch the Simon Cabaret show (gorgeous transvestites that put women to shame..)












8:45pm-11:00pm - May Leng went for a massage at Patong beach I went wandering around and found myself a cozy bar and restaurant and started chatting with the bartendress (hmmm..)
We finally arrived at the hotel at about midnight and had some Thai food we bought (breakfast, lunch & dinner!)... zZz

note: The rooms are gorgeous with sliding doors so when you are soaking in the bath tub you can chat with the person in the room or watch TV! (pic of me in the bath tub *sigh* I could get used to this)

7th October
6:30am - pulled ourselves out of bed. head to the lobby of the resort.
7:00am-Our Pick-up came (West Coast Divers). We head of to one of the best dive spots in Phuket called Racha Yai Island.



me and the dive masters.. Ian brit dude, Scandinavian dude and an Italiano dude...
I was dropped off into an area populated by JELLY FISH, I had jellyfish stings all over my body !






Some friends we made on our excursion to Racha Yai island Tim, Debra (frm UK) and John (frm OZ).








May Leng's dive master from Japan : Takeshi
(got some great underwater shots!)






4:00pm- Returned from our trip to Racha Yai and was dropped at Patong beach. Shopped. Had some terrific Cocktails *yummy* (mine in the coconut: Sabai-Sabai delicious, highly recommended!)

6:00pm- Head to Fantasea (at Kamala beach), we had no idea what to expect .. it was fantastic! Its Disneyland with a cultural twist... If any of you intend to visit Phuket, Fantasea is a MUST-SEE! (for USD42.5- we paid to enter the park, a 1hr15min show, buffet dinner(unbelieveable spread!, shuttle back to the hotel)





11:00pm-head back to hotel... yawn zZ (*note we still had on our bikinis from diving so u can imagine how tired and how much we wanted a shower!!!)
8th October
7:00am- woke up to have a dip in the resorts pool .. cool concept the pool goes all around the resort so ..yes we woke up to swim and YES we forgot to eat again!










8:00am-Tried the resorts' spa, I had a great massage a combination of Thai and Swedish methods ..aaahhh
11:00am-checked out of Arahmas Resort and head to Phuket town, we chose an ok hotel which cost us a mere 800 Baht.



11:45am-checked into new hotel and headed to Wah Chalong Temple (we were intrigued by the fortune telling sessions-but no one spoke English!) Temple was quite a sight though.





2::00pm- we went elephant trekking: includes, water fall, jungle trekking, gibbon project, buffalo cart, canoeing, dinner. Some pics from our little adventure:




(me trying to steer the elephant, May Leng at the back seat, buffalo carting; waterfall & hunchback of notre dame aka me with a backpack )






7:00pm- we ended our adventure and went back to Patong beach, our attempt to club turned into pubbing (we had on our heavy ruck sacks and our shopping so we thought -we were best finding a pub to chill at!)
11:00pm-off to bed..

9th October
8:00am woke up to the sounds of firecrackers and the noise outside our hotel window on the streets... it was the Thai Vegetarian festival (aka poking of swords, knives and poles through their mouths and other body parts!) Slight panic as we needed to be at the airport by 11am and by 10am we still couldnt get hold of transport all the streets in town were blocked for the parade... we finally made it to the airport by 1130 only to realise our flight wasnt till 1:30pm!




Great trip can't wait for the next one..