Date: 26th March
Comrades: Susam, Tae, Wood, Kai, Thep
Activity: Island trip from Phuket, Snorkeling, Beach explore.
Place of interest: Phuket town, Koh Maya, Koh Phi Phi, Koh Ling (Monkey Island), Koh Khai nOrk.
125B/pax is the total money we need to pay for this island trip (speed boat - i still remember the boat have 3 engines and it’s swift). The tour travel over all the best island spot in Andaman Sea such the Koh Maya, Koh Ling, and Koh Khai and Koh Phi Phi. The program starts at 8.30pm (local time), so we manage to take breakfast (the same store we took breakfast on the day before). The van comes straight to the hotel front door taking us to the jetty. If not mistaken the jetty called 'Marina'. It's was a very hot and sunny day, me no lucky because I ruined my own sunglass at the jetty. Means I have to keep my eyes open as small as possible - the sun is very very bright that day!
The tour guide who will supervised all the crew on the boat called 'Tanya', she will monitor and do the explained to all of us, I think is around 30 peoples. (Most of the tourist who on the boat is West Asians+ 5 of us from Malaysia!).
1; Koh Maya
6; Koh Maya: With one of the speed boat crew
A lot of thing happened, some is good and some is not really good. The good thing is that P'Thanya introduced us the Koh Yao or 'Long island' at the same time she got introduced us P'Charoh who work in Koh Khai, Koh Khai is one of the islands we stop by on this trip. P'Charoh introduce us the Challet manager on Koh Yao (her name is P'Suiy or Marisa). P’Thanya, P’Charoh, P’Suiy.. ~~ it does confusing right.. hehe ;). And the not soo good thing happen on the boat is that one of the tourist pull off the 'Pa karang' from the sea while doing the snorkeling. The first island we stop is the Maya island, I been here before (7 years ago). That time, the tsunami not yet hit Thailand and some part of the Maya island I managed to do snorkeling. But not this time, there's no snorkeling at Maya island probably because this time the trip is different? Anyway, the island is still very beautiful. I like the environment alot, especially when you can see alot of tourist from European country walking all the way of the beach of Maya island + peoples taking pictures.
Koh Ling or Monkey Island is the 2nd island we visit during this trip. We just manage to stop by and see the island cave from the boat, Thanya said this cave is protected and no one is allow to enter because the 'bird' having this cave as their home. :)
7; Koh Ling (Monkey Island): We only manage to stop by.
8; Koh Phi Phi: Stop by for lunch
The boat stops by at Phi Phi Island for lunch. From the Phi2 island, we can see alot of others boat stopping by bringing the entire tourist for the same reasons. The lunch is just an ok for me, the food is more to western style. Probably it's all have to do with business.. ;). We have total of 1.30hours of time on Phi Phi Island. After lunch, we only manage to walk to the beach nearby + some pictures like this:
9; Phong Thep (Thep)
10; Suresh (Tae)
11; Thawatchei (Kai)
12; Worawod (Wood)
13; Susamruad (Samruad)
On the boat again, this time to Khai nOrk Island, is the last island we visited. It's only a small island located nearby the Koh Yau Island. Everyone do the snorkeling here except me busy with my Nikon D90. But the snorkeling spot not as nice as Koh Maya and Koh Ling, so i guess me not that bad although did not manage to join the snorkeling sessions here. ;)
14; On the boat to Koh Khai nOrk
15; Koh Khai nOrk
16; Koh Khai nOrk
17; Koh Khai nOrk
18; Koh Khai nOrk
19; Koh Khai nOrk
20; Koh Khai nOrk
21; Koh Khai nOrk
22; Koh Khai nOrk
23; Koh Khai nOrk
That's all from the island trip started from 8.30am to 4pm local time. We arrived back to Backpacker hotel around 5pm, get shower and ready to move again. this time is to Patong, tonight we staying here in patong. The hotel? Backpackers hotel again.. hehe.. first arrived to Patong is via local bus 25Bath/pax. Stop by in front of the Phuket Hard Rock Cafe and walk all the way to find the hotel along the Patong beach. I only remember that the hotel located nearby Starbuck and Mc'D, but i found out that at patong only have 3Mc'D and 2 Starbuck. =_='~.
So finally we found the Patong Backpacker, still remember it's locate near the SUVOy restorant. Me and Kai got mixed up with the local pronunciation SUVOY = SUBWAY! So that's where our argue started! wakaka.. ;)
24; Phuket BangLa's Street
25; Phuket BangLa's Street
26; Phuket BangLa's Street
27; Phuket BangLa's Street
This is some of the picture showing the surroundings and atmosphere at Patong on Nighttime. This is the Bangla road, Please do pronounce is properly is Bang'La street, the street where full of colorful light and full of colorful people with colorful activity. ;)
28; Phuket BangLa's Street
29; Phuket BangLa's Street
30; Phuket BangLa's Street
i was lucky enough to snap this funny picture of a group of man wearing dresses pretending like a women. They just were getting down from the local TukTuk and on their way to catch the sight of BangLa street. ;)
32; Phuket BangLa's Street
33; Phuket BangLa's Street
34; Phuket BangLa's Street
Me:
~ sorry for English, please correct me if i'm wrong
~ any comment just leave it in the comment box
~ Kai, Tae, Wood and Thep if you guys got any other picture and details of this trip, just pass it to me k. I would be very happy to post it in the blog
~ Keep on follow this blog, i'll try to update again especially for our 4th and last day
I don’t have any snorkeling picture here, due to busy with the activity. So Tea and Kai, please do pass me the picture k. i know you guys have it on your camera!
Wowwww!!! You guy looks nice and stunning
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