Just flown into Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand....a less partyish place one might hope after the past 10 days in the Southern Islands! Off to jungle trek in the morrow, elephants, white water and all that jazz!
Flew into Phuket after our marathon of flights took us from Dublin to London to Muscat to Bangkok and finally to Phuket, one after another with no stopovers - pure torture. Phuket = shithole so was glad to see the backarse of that dive after an evening and a morning. Then it was aferry to Koh Phi Phi, the supposed paradise of 'The Beach' fame. We were waiting for the let down, the dreary tourist filled dump but to be honest besides a little rubbish and a fair wad of construction IT WAS BEAUTIFUL. The Bayview resort was just savage, bungalow to ourselves, magnificent view, just generally perfect, faultless really. Phi Phi was great fun, some good food, had my first bucket - in terror due to an exceptionally camp German drunkenly leering at me - and did a speedboat tour of Maya Bay (The Beach itself) and the islands, tried to find sharks by myself off a reef (sadly failed). Was just a really cool place and the weather was spectacular despite history saying it should have been torrential downpours!
Onto Koh Phangan via ferry, bus, tourist scam 150minutes waiting in a dumpy restaurant, bus, ferry and tuk tuk - the best part of 14hours total, complete nightmare. Found the place we had hoped to stay in that night easy as pie but then found a tick and two cockroaches in our room so that made for an interesting night (think Maeve may had smuggled them in herself actually!). Left that place swiftly in the morn in hopes of finding a decent room in the nigh of jammed town - waiting for the Full Moon Party 4 days later. Somehow we managed to scam ourselves a room in the 'sorry we're completely full' Cocohut village we'd hoped to stay in in the first place - 40quid anight for a bungalow for the 3 of us, so that was amazing. Downsides were the construction next door starting at 8am and not stopping til about 6pm and for Maeve the extreme heat of sleeping by the ceiling (though she had her own bed!). Cocohut was savage though - pool, bar, restaurant, beach practically to itself. We lay in wait of the Full moon.....
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Interesting comment which I see regularly... "Phuket = shithole so was glad to see the backarse of that dive".
Where did you stay?
Phuket is where I live and I can assure you it's not a dive, though Patong beach might be described that way. Phuket is over 500 square kilometers. Patong is about 1% of the island.
If you have time, please do see a bit more of Phuket..
Jamie's Phuket
great to hear what you're up to andrew! sounds like an awesome adventure. nice one, pissing off the locals though hehee...j/k!
missing you!!!
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