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Aaahhhhhh Phuket....once the gem of Thailand....and parts of it still are but I must admit I was definitely disappointed with parts of Phuket. The wrath, aka "the Beast," of tourism has definitely take over part of Phuket. After our 5 hour layover in the Bangkok airport (which was not planned) we arrive in Phuket. We avoided Patong Beach at all possible costs because we heard it was just awful with tourists. At the airport their were buses of Eurotrash getting on their buses headed to such places as Patong. No thank you! Instead we chose to stay on Bang Tao Beach. We had no idea what to expect. We pulled into our cute little hotel, put our stuff down in our bungalow and headed straight for the beach. It was amazing. By the time we arrived it was 5ish so the sun had already started to set. Looking out into the lagoon it was 4 km of Paradise. It was exactly what I was looking for. Amidst the high tourism of Phuket, we seemed to esape it and found beauty on the island. We immediately jumped into the ocean...finally we made it to the beach!!!
Phuket: Beauty meets the Beast
Casey Lary2006-02-20 15:16:09
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Aaahhhhhh Phuket....once the gem of Thailand....and parts of it still are but I must admit I was definitely disappointed with parts of Phuket. The wrath, aka "the Beast," of tourism has definitely take over part of Phuket. After our 5 hour layover in the Bangkok airport (which was not planned) we arrive in Phuket. We avoided Patong Beach at all possible costs because we heard it was just awful with tourists. At the airport their were buses of Eurotrash getting on their buses headed to such places as Patong. No thank you! Instead we chose to stay on Bang Tao Beach. We had no idea what to expect. We pulled into our cute little hotel, put our stuff down in our bungalow and headed straight for the beach. It was amazing. By the time we arrived it was 5ish so the sun had already started to set. Looking out into the lagoon it was 4 km of Paradise. It was exactly what I was looking for. Amidst the high tourism of Phuket, we seemed to esape it and found beauty on the island. We immediately jumped into the ocean...finally we made it to the beach!!!
Koh Phi Phi
Our BEAUTIFUL beach. 4 km strip of wondeful white sand and turquoise waters.got up early and headed on on a day trip to Koh Phi Phi (pronounced ko pi pi...hhaaahhahaha you said pi pi ;-)). Assuming we could get a cheaper deal by arranging the transport to the island by ourselves, we opted out of the hotel's 'planned' tour. We ask the driver to take us to a port to catch a boat to Koh Phi Phi. He tells us 500 baht ($1=40 baht). All of our travel books listed waaay less, so we were a bit confused, yet since we were out in the middle of know where we had no other choice. We held out to not buy our return ticket. Then it got sketchy...we had to jump into a van and go to ANOTHER pier to get on the boat....weird. This was the part of Phuket I did not like. They were trying to scam us because they could. At the dock there were a cazillion tourists (that includes ourselves
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