Hollis wrote a great blog about our time in Phuket but I thought we needed to show you more photos. One of our family rules is that you can't mess with someone else's blog so I am left to make a second one of Phuket.
This was a place I really wanted to see after I read so much about the devastation after the tsunami in 2004. I had a fantasy that it was white sand, palm fringed and very laid back. Quite the opposite is true. Phuket is a huge island and very over developed. The traffic is chaotic and the pace is very, very fast. We are now lounging on Kho Yao Noi Island for a few weeks to recover! ( I'll about it soon) We did enjoy a few hours at the beach but as Hollis said, it was hard to relax when we were constantly bombarded with hawkers trying to sell us sunglasses.
Anyway.. we kept an open mind, we ate our way through the crazy vegetarian festival, we swam at the famous beach I saw on tv then got the hell out!
inside the tuk tuk on our way to ride go carts
Our transportation today
Bowen loves the tuk tuks
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| The bus in Phuket town |
Thailand is full of temples all very beautiful
You can see the Portuguese influence in the architecture
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| Thais dress in white for the vegetarian festival. Lighting incense at the temple |
Our hippie son making happy
Some beautiful places to explore
Bowen digs the spiral deep fried potatoes. About .50c
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| All vegetarian made to look like meat. All delicious! |
Phuket beach- finally
A typical long tail boat at Phuket Beach
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| Our oasis amid the chaos- Shanti lodge, Phuket
~Liz
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