Phuket

10 june 2004 thurs our adventure begins flight MI756

travelling from airport to hotel. abt 45min ride. feel like puking on the way. regretted reading some brochure in the mini-bus.

our 1st dinner at patong. can't resist the beaf noodle along the street. jerome had pork.

30B for a bowl. it's really good! =P

flea mkt at patong

it's roti prata with egg, banana & chocolate! 25B. very crispy!

1st night in our hotel room...hee...jerome preparing tuna sandwiches for a trip the next day (phi phi island)...but the trip was cancelled the next morning due to bad weather...we were quite disappointed...however we manage to go on sat. =)

with compliments from the hotel...actually got more but i ate them before the pix...kekeke

11 june 2004 fri phuket island adventure after hearing the bad news: no phi phi island trip for tat day. we decided to take the hotel shuttle bus to phuket town. along the way the driver drops us at the duty free shop for a while.

we were bored in the duty free shop so came out earlier than others to walk ard.

we board a tuk tuk after alighting from the hotel shuttle bus.

view from rung hill

tat's phuket town in the background. far away u can c the sea - phuket bay.

at "tu chang" shop where u can find dried food stuff from mango to sotong to 'ba hu".

at phuket bay where we had lunch.

i dare not to hold on to the lobster fearing that i might drop it.

at phuket bay...can u c a person walking in the sea...it's actually quite shallow.

cool

cooling

now facing the land...u can c their washing area behind us.

tat's lunch! doesn't taste good enough & think we kanna "chop".

tom yum soup!

at cashew nuts factory

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at phuket shooting range

53% accuracy

72% accuracy

many choices

tat's the uncle who brought us ard the southern part of phuket.

he's thai chinese - mr lin

after a day of travelling, we settle for iron-ladies show tat night.

look at the cleavage =P









wondering....

12 june 2004 sat phi phi island, maya bay, khai island - island hopping adventure

at a port waiting to board the speedboat to phi phi island

in the speedboat to phi phi island

with australians sandra & joe

what i saw along the way

maya beach, part of phi phi island...where part of the movie "the beach" is flimed...that's Sandra in the background.

that's the speedboat we took....see the little boy with his sister & dad...he puked while on board...it's horrible to be seasick.



that's my guy!



beach view of maya beach

travelling behind maya beach



birdnest cave

fishy business...hehe =P

can u see the fishes around me?....they bite!

my 1st snorkering experience! it's a memorable one...still remember jerome calling out to the fishes when he was trying to feed them...like calling a puppy...so funny...haha

monkey island

that's where we had lunch

taking a walk after lunch...beautiful

nice beach

can u see Sandra & Joe at the right corner...haha...didn't realised we accidentally took them inside the pix.

actually i got no idea where were we...hee...some island on that map.

guess this pix is taken by Joe.