Thailand - Phuket (Day 2)

This is the second day at Phuket. Gotta wake up really early in the morning as we are going for our island hopping trip. We had to eat our breakfast and be at the lobby by 745am. We reach the jetty at 830am. While waiting for the rest of the group to arrive, we are served coffee and tea. Pretty good service.

Taking the speed boat, we reach the first island - Phi Phi Lei in 45 mins. We are shown the Viking Cave which is the place where expensive bird nest are collected. However, the owner now does not allow boat to drive in as they are scare the flash from the camera will scare the swallow away. We also visited the Pi Lei Cove, Loh Sama Cove and Maya Bay (where the movie - "The Beach" is filmed) where we did some swimming and snorkelling. The water is very clear and we can see alot of corals and fishes. Oh.. the water is very salty as well (so much more worse than any country i went to)!!!

Next we went to Phi Phi Don island. We visited Don Cave and Monkey Island. At the monkey island, we were told to stand in the water to feed the monkeys in case they go crazy and attack. Monkeys are scare of water (Same goes for people born in the year of monkey - that is me... haa).

We had our sumptous lunch at resturant at Phi Phi island. Everyone was eating away happily as they are all hungry from the snorkel and swim, except me. I think I am suffering from sea sick. Oh gosh.. i can only sit there and watch the rest munching away... one serving after another.. We were on the island for about an hour before we continue our island hopping trip.

Our next stop was the James Bond island and the last stop is the racha island where we stay for the longest. We spend almost 2 hours on the beach. The sand is very fine and the water is very clear. Very pretty and relaxing place.

As I did not want to get to tan, I spend most of the time sitting on the beach chair, hiding under the big umbrella and putting on sun block.. haha.... Each pair of chair cost 150 baht for the entire day.

Bought some corn and ice cream to eat while we relax on the beach chair...

Time to head back to Phuket. Last picture of us at the island before we head back to our resort.

After washing up at the resort, we decide to go for a good dinner. SInce i did not manage to eat my lunch. haha .. So we went to eat at the seafood store oppsite our resort (too lazy to go far). There are so many stores but we chose Linda Seafood.

We order Tom Yum Goong, babercue fish and stir fried kang kong. The food was great and the boss - Linda is very chatty. The soup was great - spicy and sour. The fish is fresh and nicely cooked. Total cost for the dinner is 490 Baht.