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.
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.
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