WAKING up after a good nights sleep and getting rid of all the tiredness from flying half way across Asia yesterday me and Kevin got up this morning fully ready for exploring.
Kevin had read that the best way to get around in Thailand is to use a scooter so we enquired about them in our hotel and found out that they were only 200 Baht which is about £4! Crazy I know. Now the thought of being on a scooter in England is a little intimidating but being on one in Thailand is an even more intimidating thought.
After I’d finally worked out how to start it up and filled it up with some gasoline, which incidently is sold on old wine bottles at the side of the road by most vendors, we were ready to go. Kevin needed to get some sun cream and I needed to get some flip flops so we headed to the nearest town we could and got hold of what we needed and once we’d got the scooters going we realised it wasn’t quite as difficult as it came across, probably because there wasn’t much traffic on the road.
Kevin was slightly more confused than I was because despite his greater experience on the scooter, driving on the ‘English’ side of the road provided him with an extra challenge!
We decided to head towards a nearby beach and following some signs we rode up and down some hills and on some windy roads. We stopped off at part of Patong Beach which is one of the most reputable beaches in Phuket. We dipped our feet in the water, sat for a bit and then decided to find some food. We rode a long way across Phuket it seemed without finding a restaurant or anything that looked like a restaurant for around 45 minutes. Eventually we pulled up at some form of roadside cafe and picked up a nice meal for around 400 Baht (or about £7) Looking for a new beach we rode the scooters back towards Karon and continued down the west coast reaching the next beach along the coast which was called Kata.
Clear blue waters, white sand and an amazing amount of sun the pair of us were already beginning to shown some signs of redness and we decided to head into the water to cool down. The water wasn’t quite as clean as it was at the bit of Patong beach we went to earlier today but it was perfectly temperate and the sand was so soft and nice that for those couple of hours, being there was nothing short of being in paradise and I sat in the water for quite a long time thinking about how amazing it was that I finally made it to Thailand having wanted to go there for so long.
Me and Kevin rode further up the road beyond Kata beach finding another small beach called Kata Noi and then we rode even further up the coast to Ravena Beach which actually turned out to be more of a pier than a beach. On the way there we stopped off at Kata viewpoint and saw some of the most visually stunning beaches I have ever seen in my life. Hopefully you’ll enjoy looking at them on my photo gallery to see what I mean.
Just when you think you have seen everything we were driving along the road, I caught sight of a couple of girls who were riding in front of us wildly swing half way across the road. Thinking that they were just poor drivers I looked down at the ground and noticed that their swerviture was likely because a snake, which was now on the road, had jumped out of a tree and aimed at them.
We decided to travel back towards Patong to get some dinner and after a 30 minute ride we finally made it there both feeling starving. We stopped off at a Mexian restaurant, had some dinner and watched the sunset, which again provided us with some amazing views. We walked up through Patong a little while before decided to head back to the hotel because we were nakered!
Riding the bikes back in the dark was a little difficult, especially when someone decided to steal my helmet and I ended up riding back with just a baseball cap on to protect me.
I must be honest and say that today that was an absolutely fantastic day and I saw some incredible views and riding the scooters made it all the more pleasureable. Hopefully tomorrow we’ll have some more exiciting adventures and having invested in those things for the rest of the time we’re here, we’ll see what we can get up to.
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