FOLLOWING the enjoyment of last night’s Thai boxing, me and Kevin decided to take it easy today by having a lie in and spending most of the morning lying on the beach.
As you can imagine after the last couple of days we are pretty spoiled for choice when it comes to our selection of beaches but we made our way to a different one today deciding to head out to Trairang beach which is just left of Patong Beach, about a ten minute ride from our hotel.
Typically the beach was in perfect condition and with no threat of rain this afternoon it was a case of: Sunshine, Check; White sand, check; Beautiful blue water, check. I really think we have been totally spoiled for choice since we’ve been here and each beach we seem to go to only seems more beautiful than the last one!
We spent about two hours on this beach lying under an umbrella, taking some pictures and enjoying the water before we decided to go for a bit of a ride and head towards Phuket Town. We’d bordered the town in the last couple of days but not managed to venture into it as yet and after an hour or so of riding around we’d probably explored every street that Phuket Town had to offer and decided to find ourselves a restaurant.
As peaceful and tranquil as the rest of Phuket is, Phuket Town was probably somewhere that you wouldn’t want to stay if you came here. There was plenty of traffic on the road and not seeing the beach for about two hours or so was surprisingly depressing. With so many more buildings and shops the temperature, even on the bike, was about 10F hotter than it has been the whole time we’ve been here. We eventually managed to find a restaurant which boasted itself to sell ‘Thai and Chainese’ food. Despite not being a big fan of eating jewellery we decided to head in and in the end the food turned out to be very good and very cheap.
Stepping back on the bikes we headed for back for home but with our excellent navigation skills we managed to find our way to about seven dead ends including one which simply seemed to be the end of land with a road heading that way. Yet again Thailand came through in the clutch with it’s road signs...not.
As it was the lack of signs didn’t hinder us too much as we somehow found our way to Phuket Bay which is one of the southernmost points of the island. We arrived there just in time to watch the sunset and just around the corner we watched the rest of the sunset by the waters edge which is just near the town’s aquarium. I’m not sure we could navigate ourselves there again if we tried but it was certainly worth taking a few wrong turnings or so.
Eager to hit the water again (or at least get our feet wet before we returned to the hotel) we decided to head to Patong beach and take a walk across the sand before getting some dinner. Standing in the water looking out on the waves in Phuket is a truly amazing sight and one that I wish everyone could see (or at least that I could capture on my camera) It’s such a contract from the bright lights on the opposite side of the road, I certainly know which one I would prefer to experience.
Sadly to get some food you have to take the gauntlet down the road whilst people try and sell you fake goods, offer you a taxi or women offer you a ‘massage’ (yes, in Thailand we really do know what that means.) We found ourselves at quite a delicious restaurant with a live band and some good atmosphere so we were pretty happy to finish off yet another enjoyable day and night in style. We then took a ride back to the hotel to rest up and decide what we shall do tomorrow.
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