Orchidacea Resort Phuket

... is, it isn't even expensive because there are construction works surrounding it which has brought the price right down temporarily... An amazing find! So for the last two days we have chilled out by the infinity pool with Sam, Jee, Sam's sister Zoe and Jee's hilarious gay friend Anuk, snuggled up watching Horrors in the Luxury TV/Projector room and enjoyed the gorgeous lobster and seafood dinners prepared by the lovely staff. This is the life... :)

Phuket is entirely different than what we both expected. It is SUPER touisted (obviously) but still maintains strong thai culture. Our first night we arrived in Karon beach area, from what we read we were expecting a bit of a downer location, but it was totally beautiful and laid back. The beach itself stretches far and has crystal clear blue-green water. There are sand crabs everywhere too! I (Lauren) got bit by a crabor fish or ...

... ladyboys were everywhere in Phuket. Some are scarily convincing unless wearing hotpants. They're all crazy and hyper dancing around, until all the bars close and they line up along the streets. Some are definately anorexic tho, sad. The caberet was pretty strange, but there was a hilare geisha (wo)man, dancing into the audience and kissing the men to freak them out. The costumes were fantastic, too.
Boat to Phi Phi, a little island with ...

... was to an awesome lookout point where I hiked to the bottom for a good view. After I hiked all the way back up I was nice and sweaty and tired! We then headed off to one of the Temples. We didn't realize that you couldn't wear spaghetti straps today so all the girls couldn't even step off the bus except for one. The guy said he had a spare t-shirt and no one piped up so I decided to take it so I could get off the bus. When I got off I entered the temple and we ...

... said we would not be staying at.....Patong Beach. Well as it turns out it wasn't that bad after all. I maintain it's the people we were with that made that whole girlie bar experience a right laugh. You certainly see some sights. The lady boys are quite incredible to watch. Some of them are absolutely stunning and some well just haven't got it...bless 'em. We stayed 3 nights there then it was time for Ian to fly home back to England. Myself, Martin, Mike and Lindsay decided we wanted ...

hey there everyone, hope everyone is enjoying the snow. quite bizarrley a slightly jealous!!!!just thought i give you a quick update on te best island in the world ever!!!!! so i arrived in phi phi via a boat from phuket. didnt have a clue where i was staying or what i was doing. luckily i got chatting to this girl called rhian from wales on the boat and she was in the same predicament so we went in force. this island was so ...

EN: We took a boat to Railay (the only way to reach Railay) and quite enjoyed the ride, on the way we even recognized some islands we still remembered from last year when we already visited Phi-Phi and Railay. We found accomodation in the Hat Rai Leh East bay, where the beach is not that great (a bit muddy), but the accomodation prices are much more acceptable for budgetarians than on the Hat Rai Leh West, where the beach is much nicer though. Our very nicely decorated hut ...

Sunday 31st August - later that day. Shane Says: Well the plane did end up leaving. First they said it wouldn't, then they said maybe, then they didn't admit it would, but they did take our luggage and issue us with boarding passes, so we didn't complain. Krabi is so cool. Well I don't know what Krabi town is like but we went to the seaside village of Ao Nang. Its very very cool. Our hotel has two pools! We would never be able to afford such a place ...

... a couple of the numbers had rubbed off in the water. But its the effort that counts. After all that lesson stuff was out of the way, we got down to the business of enjoying our dive. And some dive it was. This was my first wall dive, where we were diving along a sheer rock wall. It is an incredible feeling to look UP the wall and see fish swimming above you and the sunlight filtering down. I couldn't tell whether I ...

... friends we made (Hannah and Amy) and then headed for the beach party once more. Char and Rach ran into fire hoops....I wasn't so tempted. We eventually went to sleep at 7am. We woke up and Hannah, Amy, Rach and I took a hike to the Phi Phi viewpoint....absolutely exhausting in blistering hot heat and about 2000 steps....but the views were incredible!!!!!!!!! Will show you all pictures when I get home :-)


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