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Patong Slideshow
Patong
Travel Blogs from Patong, Thailand
Phuket Town
... noch in Mundgerechte Stuecke geschnitten wird. Ausserdem trinken wir noch einen thailaendischen "Iced Coffee", wenn hier schon alles so guenstig ist. Zurueck am Patong Beach erholen wir uns noch etwas und wollen schliesslich Patong bei Nacht erkunden. ...
Pretty Patong!
... , 3 buses and a taxi, epic stuff!! Slept solid for 6 hours after we got there, exciting or what!! Someone said that Patong is like Las Vegas in Phuket...a crazy place...never been to Vegas but it surely is a crazy place! A walk through the streets ...
The Land of the Package Tourist
... no empty space available for solitary reflection. Things didn’t get any better at night. Patong had transformed itself into the neon capital of Thailand. Blinking shiny lights assaulted your eyes from every direction and spot lights reflected off ...
Tourists, sleaze and cleansing baths
... to "experience the true culture" of the location. So we headed to Phuket, the most touristed and potentially least authentically Thai location in Thailand. Due to the fact that it is still low season we were able to find a 3 star resort that still fits ...
Holiday #3
... blocked for the rest of the night. Terrible. The flight was as short as Singapore just in the opposite geographical direction and Thailand is also an hour behind, so we took off at 8:40pm and landed at 8:45pm. We passed through immigration and waited for ...
Exercise, eating and entertainment
... to the standard type you can buy in the stalls, and I already have a Thai outfit from when Mum and Dad went to Thailand, so don't need another! After dinner we sat out on the balcony and while Ben read I wrote some postcards before nearly passing out so ...
Elephant massage?
... past the Chatong Temple and stopped at the "Amazing Bukit Safari". We first met Mr Phuket, the first elephant to be born in Phuket/Thailand (I can't remember if it is the whole of Thailand). He is seven years old. We got to have a photo taken of him and ...
Playa del Phuket
... (an Irish group of "Celtic Sirens" practically unknown back home) are currently number one in MTV Thailand's music chart. Leaving the lovely beach in Patong we headed off rafting one day. I wasn't expecting much but when they didn't even bother to ...
Raindrops keep falling on my head
Happy New Year!!! Thai New Year that is. Called Songkram. It is a holiday of water and talcom powder. I figured that things were going to get interesting when I started seeing the water guns going on sale in the days prior to ...
The beaches of Phuket
... little girl. What was really great was that they had English food on the menu. Now I know what you're thinking – we're in Thailand, we should be eating Thai food... And we are, I promise. But since its been over 3 months since we'd had food from ...
Phuket About It!
... news as we were soon introduced to Swenson's, an American ice-cream parlour that have a chain of shops throughout Thailand. As you will see on the photos, we ended up vistiting Swenson's more than once while we were in ...
Trekking in the hills
... he told us to go out into town and celebarte the Festival that was happening all weekend in Chang Mai and all of Thailand. We went out and watched the parade through the streets Vicky got excited and started remenicing about Pudsey Carnival and her being ...
Phi Phi Island
This is our last day for sight seeing in this area so we thought we would try and make the most of it by venturing to the highly recommended Island of Ko Phi Phi. Once again we were picked up at our hotel by mini bus and driven about 10 minutes away ...
Return to Paradise
After the knackered boat ride, we landed on Koh Phi Phi, which is a real tropical paradice that was brought to its knees by the force of the boxing day Tsunami. Here, we met many locals, who were all still obviously still feeling a very raw pain ...
Mastering the ocean!
After a reasonable lie in Bev and I packed our bags and headed to the airport. From previous peoples experience we have learnt that there are two Bangkok International airports and made sure we headed to the correct one (the new one). The ...
Ko Phi Phi
After a long journey from Ko Samui to Ko Phi Phi, we arrived tired and hot in our new home. We dont actually know the name of the place where we're staying, the sign over the door simply says... 'Restaurant' We dumped our bags in our 'bungalow' and ...
Nach dem Regen scheint die Sonne, oder so...
Wir haben beschlossen, doch noch etwas am Patong Beach zu verweilen (vom Strand haben wir ja genau genommen noch gar nicht viel gesehen...). Wir haben gestern ein Hotel gefunden, welches erst vor kurzem eroeffnet hat und trotz Haupsaison akzeptable Preise ...
Grandpa's and babes.
... these poor girls as we walked down the main street at night, they really must feel that they have no other options. Despite patong city we enjoyed our outing to Kata beach. Swimming in the warm clear blue water of the Andaman sea was heaven, ...
Phi Phi-Phuket
... , dass auch wir nach Patong wollen. Auch wenn wir nach dem Kata Beach fragen heisst es immer… „Yes, yes Patong“. Zusammen mit Einheimischen sind wir ungefaehr eine halbe Stunde unterwegs. Beim ersten Strand steigen wir aus und sind wie ...
Journee de scooter et amende....
... pour aller a Phi Phi le lendemain, 550 baths van+ bateau, et reprenons les scooters, direction le nord de Karon, jusqu'a Patong Beach et au dela. Ballade sympa, nous arretons a Patong Beach prendre quelques photos de la plage, on aime pas l'endroit, ...
Phuket
... the week we hopped on our rented motorbikes and cruised around the island, which is as big as Oahu in some ways. Patong: This is the infamous beach known for many foreigners and a crazy night life scene full of women, transsexuals, old foreigners, ...
Erkundungstour
... Weg zurueck nach Patong Beach. Dabei schauen wir uns noch einige Hotels um und finden eines, in der Naehe des Strandes von Patong. Wir werden also morgen wieder einmal umziehen… Da es am Abend leider regnet, Essen wir nur an den fahrenden ...
Landed in Phuket and Josh was almost arrested!
... this was only 9.30, we had been drinking since 1 (Pretty much as soon as we arrived) This was on the beach road of Patong Beach and watch by about 200 bystanders, think Josh made a few people's night..hilarious!! We made it back to the room where Josh ...
Arnaque et arrivee a Phuket
... a bien repete 5 ou 6 fois a ces cons. Un couple d'indien monte dans une autre ville a le meme probleme, ils devaient aller a Patong et ils se retrouvent a Phuket Town. A peine arrives le bus se depeche de larguer nos sacs a meme le sol mouille par la ...
The other side of Thailand
... , the main tourist destination on the west coast of Phuket. This is not one of the places in Thailand to which we're eager to return. Patong Beach is like a combination of Wildwood New Jersey, Canal Street in New Orleans, and Cancun. ...
Ko Similan National Park
The past two days we were on a remote island, 60 km away from the main Western coast of southern Thailand , we did a lot of snorkeling and saw a lot on nice fish, corails and sea turtles... The water was turquoise and the sand white, white... very ...
Ladyboys ahoy!
... your on a 26 hour bus journey and then get back to me! Oh and I got chatting to a lovely couple on the mini bus to Patong Beach...where we were staying...and the guy went and bought us Chang's for the rest of the journey...very nice! Living the dream I ...
Arrival in Phuket, Thailand
... All the while, Trish prepared herself and her mother for an imminent departure from Vancouver (her residence) to next adventure destination Thailand. It is likely of benefit to provide further yet brief detail(s) here. Trish has for the past 2 years ...