Despite the damp weather, we still enjoyed ourselves. That's the holiday spirit talking here.
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| The birds-eye-view of Phuket |
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| Amazing isn't it? |
Once touchdown the at the Phuket airport, both of us were SUPER excited cause it's our first time in here. See our happy face? Hehehe
We didn't know that Phuket is also celebrating the "Kew Ong Iah" vegetarian food festival. It's a big yearly event in Penang where everyone would enjoy vegetarian food at a cut-throat price and happily paying for it. (Siao, right?)
Coming back to Phuket, the private taxi that we took to our hotel in Patong Beach costs us THB 650. It's about 30 - 45 mins drive. On the way to our hotel, out taxi driver stopped at her tour office, where one of her colleagues managed to sell us some day tour. (Lucky for us they are not con men/ladies)
We bought 2 day tours.
When we reached our hotel, we were like...Waaaaa. It's exactly like what they say in the website. Alfresco Boutique hotel. Nice and cozy little hotel.
I like how the hotel is designed. They uses only RED and BLACK. My favorite color!!! YAY!! Simple and elegant, just the way I like it. The pool is amazing!
We LOOOOOOVEEEEE the room!! :) Makes me feel right at home the moment we stepped in. For the price that we are paying (comes with breakfast as well), it's definitely one of the best deal we've gotten so far! Highly recommended!! Practically there's nothing bad about the hotel. <3 <3 <3
We definitely had a good night sleep cause it was raining the whole time. The best time to stay in the hotel and catch up on our lost ZZzzZZzzzz's.
Day 2 - ATV and elephant ride.
The ATV ride was only for 30 minutes. Not that fun though. Then after that we walked to the elephant camp which is just 5 minutes away from the ATV camp. The stench of the elephant poop were bad. Ugh! We didn't get to take pictures of us on the elephant cause we refuse to buy the things that the trainer offered to us, then, he also refuse to take pictures for us. Sigh.
After that we head straight back to the hotel, where we went straight for shopping. We rented a motorcycle for only THB 250 for 24 hours. We have to wear a raincoat most of the time cause it was raining cats and dogs. All I can say is...it's a WET & FUN holiday.
Day 3 - Phi Phi Island
Then the next day we went for the Phi Phi Island tour. It was raining the whole time but the beach is still packed with tourists. Didn't manage to get loads of pictures because our camera is not water proof camera. (We forgot to buy the water proof casing). We did snorkeling as well, but then it was a big disappointment. (Think prolly Pulau Redang would be a better place to snorkel)
The beach is packed with tourists....funny people who would wear a bikini then a raincoat. I was like...WTH??? What is the point of wearing a bikini if you don't wanna get wet, right? Well....I guess all kinds of people exists. Hehehe.
Well, for the shopping over there, I would say it's exactly like what we have in Batu Feringghi, Penang. Every single thing have to be bargained. Every single shop is selling the same thing. So we just bought a few things as souvenirs for Bella & Belle.
There's this mall, JungCeylon, which is just 5 minutes drive from our hotel which is WOW! Loads of things but then everything is "supermarket pricing". Who would wanna buy expensive stuff when just across the roads there are tons of imitation goods. (Probably only Penangites would think in such a way).
See the picture of me holding a cup "Blizzard"? The ice cream is to-die-for! They have to serve it upside down or it's free! Cool right? I ordered the Mocha Almond flavor. :D (Have to have some Ice cream to make me happy right? Since the weather is sooo gloomy)
Day 4 - Back to Penang.
We checked out from the hotel at 2pm. The ride to the airport was about an hour due to the heavy traffic. I guess TRAFFIC JAM and RAIN comes hand in hand, no matter which part of the world you are in.
We bid Phuket goodbye. Will definitely come back again with my Bella & Belle.
XoXoXo
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