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Phuket Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Phuket, Thailand
I'm a teacher!
This is a top pick! ... words mate. They've just presented me with a lovely crisp certificate from the 'TEFL International Teacher Training Centre, Phuket, Thailand' certifying me as an accredited EFL teacher with my own little number (PK21111708). I've also been given a ...
Leaving Malaysia and back to the beach in Thailand
This is a top pick! ... from us, we had just returned from Bako National Park in Sarawak on the island of Borneo. Four weeks on we are now back in Thailand after having a few more days in Kuching then back to Kuala Lumpur and on to Melaka before meeting L's Mum, Dad and sis for ...
A long weekend in Phuket, Thailand (May 3-6)
This is a top pick! ... famous islands that you've all seen the pictures of and what you think of when you think of southern Thailand. There are 42 cliff-sided islands in the Phuket Sea. Forty-two of them, hmmmm.... The day was fantastic, the crew of the tour ...
Learning lessons the hard way
This is a top pick! ... online. And yet, these companies are still running and people just don’t know about these scams before they get to Thailand. I’m thinking I am going to make it a personal mission to get the word out as much as possible. I also ...
Walk around Patong
This is a top pick! Had a walk around the main town of Patong today. We ended up back at the beach and had a sub of the day at Subway. We then spent the afternoon by the swimming pool chilling out. In the evening we went to Shakers again for one of their ace pizzas. We ...
Canoeing through Ao Phang-Nga
This is a top pick! ... sleep, I arose at 7am for an experience that I have looked forward to for years - one of which you see in tourist brochures of Thailand. After being picked up at 8am, the mini bus took me and a group of very social over 55s to Ao Poh jetty. A fairly ...
Don't hold your breath!
This is a top pick! Phew, no rest for the wicked! After completing our Day Skipper course on Friday 1 July, we caught the ferry straight back to the backpacker isle of Phi Phi, where we planned to do an open water scuba course. We'd barely settled into our bay-view bungalow ...
Phuket
This is a top pick! ... . Still, we couldn't escape the devastation entirely. We spent a day at Patong Beach, one of Thailand's best known beaches and, tsunami-speaking, one of Phuket's harder hit areas. Now, nearly three months later, it is hard to believe that anything ...
To the border
This is a top pick! Right I'm off. Finally. I've just replaced half my backpack with textbooks and in just a few hours I'll be back on the road. The elation is blissful, I can't tell you. Another 18 hours of overland joy and I'll be in Vietnam. War relics, pho and the ...
Rain rain go away
This is a top pick! ... it only lasted about half an hour! Cat and Rik kept saying they didnt mind the rain, they were from Manchester, but we knew Thailand had more to offer than rain. We checked into the best hotel in the world EVER. It was off season so everything was cheap ...
Phuket Town
This is a top pick! Phuket is so much better than we were expecting. Actually we were considering skipping Phuket but instead we decided to stay in Phuket town and not the beaches. Thalang guesthouse is where we stayed and we had one of the hugest double rooms we have ever ...
What's that there under your skirt?
This is a top pick! 'Nah you can't say that, that's offensive to Benidorm!' Patong, Phuket. First impressions? Tijuana, Mexico. Seconds? Just another seedy hole overrun with tacky westerners - westerners of the shitty-sediment-at-the-bottom-of-the-barrel kind. This ...
Chapter 29: Andaman Adventures
This is a top pick! ... and it was packed with mostly empty backpacker bungalows and cafes. I was told that high season just ended; every destination in Thailand has a wildly different schedule for peak tourism - even places that are very close to each other. Inland a bit from ...
Happy New Year
This is a top pick! ... morning with this exquisite drink. I can't begin to say how glad I am to have spent my new year's eve here in Thailand - one of the best. I must admit that I was a bit hesitant at first but the locals and travellers I was ...
Patong Ping Pong
This is a top pick! Ahhh Phuket....Thailand’s version of Faliraki!! It's THE most built up, touristy, and crazy place we have been so far!!! Patong is definitely where it all happens, oh and it's one of the places featured most in Bravo's Big Trouble in Thailand! The ...
Reclaiming the Streets (no package tours)
This is a top pick! ... ), but wasn't overly impressed by what I was missing out on (nor the footy result I happened to catch). In contrast, Phuket Town is a heavily Hokkien Chinese influenced place (especially the Old Town in which I was camped), largely ignored by ...
Phuket! At least we made it to this ferry.
This is a top pick! ... battled away counting down the miles. It was hilly and super hot and even when we crossed the bridge onto the island of Phuket, the going remained tough. In fact the traffic got quite heavy, Phuket is certainly not the laid back island we were ...
Well rested
This is a top pick! We have spent the last week in Phuket, Thailand resting and relaxing. The first few days we were in Patong Beach while Rick recovered. Once he was feeling better we were able to do some shopping and sightseeing. We decided to move from the Royal Palm ...
The journey begins
This is a top pick! After taking the longest possible route to Phuket - 11 sleepless hours in total (starting at 1am!) - I finally arrived at Phuket airport. For the Bangkok-Phuket leg of the trip I was seated next to a nice bloke called Aarn, who coincidently mentioned that ...
The Highs and Lows of Life
This is a top pick! ... completely wrecked as Nat and I discovered snorkling later at another island. Later in the week we went to favourite place in Thailand so far, Ao Phang Nga... a bay full of limestone mountains, with crystal clear water and hidden caves. We spent the ...
Phuket/Ko Phi Phi/Ko Samui
This is a top pick! For almost a couple of weeks we went around the islands of southern Thailand, searching for that elusive piece of paradise which we heard can be found around here. The reality as usual is quite different from our hopes and dreams. These islands may have ...
Phuket - final day thoughts
This is a top pick! Well I'm packed and ready to go - 30 mins until my taxi comes to pick me up. I have only just managed to peel my arse off the motorbike seat after a day of putting around on it looking at exciting things like gibbons and waterfalls and beaches. Needless ...
Phuket - Chilling or Burning?
This is a top pick! ... firmly in place I will attempt to record our adventures with brevity. We spent the first afternoon in Kamala beach, Phuket, just getting our bearings and enjoying some much needed food and drink. We found a great little beach-side restaurant called ...
Ko Phi Phi - Day 56
This is a top pick! Boat trip today. Nearly missed the boat after forgetting to set my alarm, just made it in time! We first went to Maya bay which is the famous beach from the movie "The Beach" on Ko Phi Phi Leh. Ko Phi Phi Leh is a smaller more rugged version of it's ...
Ko Phi Phi - Day 57
This is a top pick! ... had my haircut by a ladyboy and it was a pleasant experience, don't a bad cut either. Alcohol ban today in this region of Thailand due to the local elections. Alcohol can't be sold for a 24 hour period before the ballot. So everyone is sat in the bars ...
Not as Phuked as you think
This is a top pick! ... for those missing their meat-balls and wienerschnitzel, giving the place a bit of a 'Costa' feel about it. All in all southern Thailand has more than lived up to its hype. It offers something for everyone, if you like it simple, quiet and secluded, ...
Phuket - Well, we had to fly into somewhere
This is a top pick! ... rush to find some ferry tickets and a taxi driver that could get us to the port in time for the last ferry, otherwise a night in Phuket would have been on the cards!! Luckily we caught the ferry in time, after some fast driving by our taxi driver, and ...