Phuket: Day 2

On the second day, we were picked up by people from the travel agency early in the morning, about 8.30 am - for our island hopping trip. Me and Roy were the first two to be fetched;the van driver then went on to fetch a few more nearby our hotel before heading to the jetty.

We were the last group to arrive at the jetty. Imagine our dismay to see the amount of people who were already there awaiting to go onboard the speedboat. Tourists were more or less 10 pax in a group; and from the travel agency alone was about 6 groups exclude the others from other travel agencies.

We took off 10 minutes later and the duration to our first stop was about 45mins-1 hour. On board we were given home-made cookies and unlimited supply of soft drinks.

When the boat slowed down after some time, all of us stood up to see where we were.

It was the stunningly beautiful Maya island; the place where the movie, The Beach was shot.







Eager Roy and Nickly quickly jumped into the water and snorkelled without us girls.

One thing slack of the area was it was soo crowded with tourists. We ended up bumping into others than seeing the live creatures underneath (there were only dead corals and little fishes to see anyways).

30 minutes passed and we headed off to Scandinavian Cave, we didn't stop to visit the place itself. It was just a mere 3-5 minutes explaination about the place and some photo taking on the boat. Birds nest is being produced from there and is exported to other countries.



We then arrived in Monkey Beach after a 5 minute boat ride before stopping in Phi Phi Don Island for our lunch break. Here, we were all given either bananas or bread to feed the wild monkeys who live in the island. Some who didn't fancy on feeding the monyets went for a short swim around that area.





After 15 minutes or so, we were all hurried by our tour guide as we were a little behind our schedule and after getting all the head counts, off we went to Phi Phi Don Island.

Phuket: Day 1

Approx 9pm, we met up for dinner at one of the seafood restaurants. Mich kept hurried us as she got to know from a Thai guy who worked for an a-go-go pub that the tiger show (or ping-pong show) would be starting in an hour.

Even so, we were almost late for the show as we were so engrossed in our conversation. Hurriedly, we foot the bill and rushed to the pub.

Inside, was already packed with people. We got ourselves a seat on the long couch near the end of the stage. As the place wasn't big, we had pretty good view of the whole stage. Drinks' prices were way too expensive! I reckon the overpriced drinks were the price we had to pay for the show. A glass of Bailey was 300 baht (RM30); Margarita @400baht (RM40); and Heineken bottle @300baht (RM30). In normal pubs, you could get it at half the price.

30 minutes passed, we were still being "entertained" by meatless a-go-go dancers. It was not until another 15 minutes or so, the tiger show started. The only amused performance was the stunt which the lady stuffed live little gold fishes and turtles into her vagina. She then placed a bowl filled with water and the next thing we saw was the gold fishes and turtles coming out from her vagina; dropped into the bowl and still swimming around. Hah, lucky them. I thought they were stuffed to death inside :P

I would say the whole entire performance wasn't as expected; especially the performer's looks. You see more fat and hair than any other thing on her. Yikes.

The night ended with a few pub hoppings and endless rounds of Bacardi flavours.

*Sorry it takes me almost a week to finish up my post on my first day trip. Boo hoo. My notebook still hasn't sent for a fix.

Mich, Nick, Roy &i

Bangla Boxing Stadium

@Bangla Road

Roy

How could we resist? :D

Yummilicious

Taken at the gay street

Do you see what I see?

Phuket: Day 1

Upon arrival at the Phuket International Airport, we were greeted by horde of Thais working for their respective taxi companies located everywhere in the airport compound. Unsure of the price we were to pay to get to our destination, Patong beach; we checked with a few before deciding to take up the one operating at the entrance of the airport. Price difference between the few wasn't much; a mere 100 baht. Oh before I forget, the taxi fare from airport to Patong beach was 550 baht - a 40 minute drive.

Already dead tired because of the lack of sleep and so couldn't wait to check in to our hotel, the taxi driver stopped at a travel agency, telling us to wait for a while. We thought he needed to go to the loo. Instead, a few Thai girls came to our car and invited us in to the office. Hah. What a way to market their services.

Since our plan to Phuket was to do some island hoppings, we checked the packages they'd to offer. We were informed that 1-day tour package to Phi Phi island &a few others would be charged at 2800 baht (RM280) per person and that they're doing a promotion on the tour; so the price was cut down to 1800 baht (RM180) per person. Thinking they simply came out with the prices, we excused ourselves by saying we needed to get in touch with our friends to check if they were interested. Therefore, we'll get back to them by then. One of the girls was so persistent and told us she'll give us a call at 5pm to confirm on the trip (they knew where we were staying). We then left.

It was not another 15 minutes only we arrived at our hotel. After unloaded our luggages, we hurried ourselves to the streets in Patong to look for food. It was very,very hot that day. We settled at one of the open-area restaurants, which was a 10 minute walk from our hotel, Deevana Patong. I'd noticed the sign board was not stated only in Thai but other languages such as Chinese, Korean, Japanese, German (I think or other kwai-lo languages). The waiter even talked to me in Chinese! Food and drinks were priced at affordable prices. 50 baht for a plate of Paad Thai or Pork Noodles Soup; 50 baht for a bottle of Chang beer. We later found out the F&B prices at any restaurant around that area were more or less the same.

We surveyed on the price for the sort of 1-day tour package after lunch. All the travel agencies we visited had the same price offered, 2800 baht - and we thought the initial agency was simply giving out prices. I quickly texted Michelle asking if she'd be interested to join us since we'll need to let them know soon.

As the weather was getting unbearable, we headed back to our hotel room. Laze in the jacuzzi and got ourselves so comfortable with our spots to only being interrupted by a call, the Thai lady from the travel agency earlier who was at our hotel at that point of time. After confirmation and payment were done, we went back to our room to take a nap while waiting for Michelle's reply on our meeting time.

To be continued.

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