So since my last post, I've mostly just been hanging out in Kata Beach on Phuket by myself. It's a bit pricy out here, so I've mostly just been sticking to the beaches... I've gotten very very brown. My days have been rather uneventful... mostly have been sleeping in, going to the beach and reading for a couple hours then taking myself out to dinner. Not a bad way to spend time but I gotta say... there's only so many times you can eat dinner alone before the company gets a little monotonous, haha!
But that's all changed now! Mike has finally joined me out here in jolly old Thailand. He flew in a couple days ago and we've had a busy couple of days! We've been up to Patong, the crazy tourist town having a joyous time sorting out visas and passports and all kinds of fun things. We met up with his best friend from England, Sam, who's been in Phuket teaching English for almost two years. We had a blast with her. We met her for dinner and went out for some drinks... had a blast in Rawai... a little beach town just over the mountains from where I've been staying. She showed us some awesome beaches and we drank Malibu rum and coconut out of coconuts... doesn't get much better than that!
After popping back and forth to Rawai a couple times, we realized that cabs are not a financially viable way of travel when you're poor backpackers. There was only one other thing to do. Rent a scooter. I've said before that the traffic here is insane. Yesterday, Mike and I rented a scooter and went to go check out Big Buddha and some other spots around Phuket. I drove, since I've had extensive scooter experience (read: I've ridden one once....) I was never worried, but by the time we got up the mountain to Big Buddha, Mike was as pale as a ghost. Apparently he didn't have as much faith in my scooter driving skills as I did. Spent some time checking out the giant statue of Buddha and the other shines around and then we headed off on more adventures. The way down the mountain was a little better, I think Mike realized I wasn't going to kill him. Either that or he had a religious experience with Buddha and had accepted his fate. We drove around Phuket and wound up at the botanic gardens. Actually a really beautiful place... very quiet and peaceful with some beautiful flowers and plants.
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| Adventures in botanic gardens! |
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| SO MANY PRETTY ORCHIDS! |
We decided to keep the scooter today, and I decided to suck it up and let Mike drive the scooter. At this point, whoever is on the back of the scooter is just terrified and clinging for dear life. Haha, but in all fairness he probably did better than me. He managed to navigate through Patong without getting us hit by a tuk tuk and that in itself is a great challenge.
Tomorrow we're heading out to Phi Phi island. I'm excited to go back and look at all the awesomeness again, and hopefully we'll be able to get underwater for a while. We're heading out for 5 days... going to check it out, hopefully find out if its a place we want to work! I'm not going to forget my camera on these dives... so I should have some good footage of Thai fish soon!
Love and fishes!!
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