Firstly, appologies for not posting a little sooner. There is no free wireless internet, but 200 baht will get you 1hour by the pool at the hotspot. So right now, I'm sitting there at 11:55pm attempting to write - hope this keeps you happy mum!
So the last 2 days have been great, we've explorered the resort a little more and it's about twice as big as it seems. It actually covers the entire of length kata-noi beach, which from what i've heard is one of the cleanest in Phuket because it's the only resort. Apart from Mom-Tri's Kitchen - one of the most famous restaurants in Phuket - but it is up on the mountain side so it doesn't really count.
I walked in there to have a look around, and it's an amazing resort as well. Unfortunatly not in our budget when we are staying for so many nights! But check the view from the hill side!
There was a wedding at the resort yesterday, aussies ofcourse. Probably 35ish in total. It's pretty annoying having them there when 25 of them take the entire front row of deck chairs facing the beach, get hammered and become insanly loud... but, then again it's more enjoyable than the weird europeans who wear g-string bakinies and sunbath topless - they are the 40+ year olds who looks 60+ from too much sun!
We headed into Patong Beach for dinner and a little shopping. I can't get over the smell - every 100m there is a drain and it's stench is a disgrace! The water there is.. well, lets just call it brown. I thought it was a pretty touristy place, but it seems patong is filled with locals on their scooters, eating and partying - perhaps trying to find a new husband like a few we saw were (and probably will!).
No only is the water dirty, the air there is thicker... it's scary to think I overheard someone saying that patong is about 10x cleaner than bankok! Patong Is a mixture of restuarants, resorts, shops, stalls and annoying indians that try to shake you hand and impersonate an aussie "g'day mate" thinking you will shake their hand and magically buy a suit off them. Picture 20 of them in a row over 50m all watching you walk past waiting to give a doddgy sales pitch to you. It's weird - the annoying ones are only thai indians. All indians. Normal Thais - nice and pieceful.
We paid another visit to 7eleven - I love it there. I bought a coke for 10 baht or $0.40c. Not long after we were by the pool again, this time though there was a few clouds in the distance and it was a cooler day. Things seemed to go quiet and the sky got dark in a matter on minutes.
From the pic above there was about 5 mins before everything was blown away and the rain pounded into the resort, by then we had run for cover at one of the restaurants and sat down for lunch. We moved tables twice when the rain got harder and harder, before flooding the place and lashing through the plastic blinds designed to stop it! (my first thailand storm!)
Later on
we booked seats at Fantasea. The Thailand cultural themepark. What a great place. It's got a Disney land feel to it - just on a miniture scale in comparison. However, it was still incredibly large and we had a buffet in the biggest hall i've ever been in. There must have been 10,000 seats! See the pic below, and that was only 1/4th of the entire building!
By the time the show began, we'd had photos with elephants (they are rediclously hairy, but dam smart) and fed the carp under the waterfall, played some side show games and ventured into the themed toilets. See a few pics below...
We entered the elephant castle (as i'm now calling it) to take our seats, but in true disney style there was a themed maze to get to the theatre which included a mini jungle safari, being searched for cameras/phones, picture oportunities with traditional thai costumes, baby elephants, tigers and ofcourse a gift shop...
We had our seats upgraded to gold class for 250 bath - $8 that allowed us to sit front and centre which was great for hayley who i swear must be blind these days!! What a view, they were the perfect seats. The show was about 1.5 hours and an stack of fun, certianly no disney show but it came close with the elephants and wild animals used...
Anyway, it's late - so i'll post the elephant & tiger pics tomorrow! Oh, and Go the broncos! Ps. If you click the comments link below - you can post a message to this page, I'll approve it next time i'm on and it will go live instantly :
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