Playing Games in Phuket

There are so many bars in Phuket and I'm guessing keeping customers or even getting them at the start must be very difficult, especially for the smaller street bars.
When ever we found a spot, they would always make us play games. I'm thinking this is their little plan or way on making customers stay longer - and to preferably buy more drinks.

Rock City

I was told by so many people to visit Rock city.
The music was great, but the drinks where ridiculous (150 baht - usually only 50)

Ever plan on visiting Phuket? i guess The Aussie bar and rock city are a must.
The street bars are also a bit of fun.
Expect lots of games, cheap Chang beer and pole dancing.

phuket

We flew out to Phuket on the Friday...

It defiantly had a different feel compared to Koh Samui.
I wanted to leave straight away... but we decided to stay.
I guess the only thing that kept us interested was the colorful and loud night life.
Beautiful lady boys paraded through Patong street, alley ways led to streets full of small dirty bars - with bar girls swinging around steal poles.

Last night in Ko Samui

We decided to take it easy on the last night.
So we bought our food from the local food store, then made our way to the beach, along with Tiffs guitar. We met up with another Australian who was traveling by himself, so we asked him to join in... he also brought along his guitar.
So After stopping off at7/11 - with a snacks and cheap beer, we all made a home on Chaweng beach.

After a few hours - a Danish couple asked to join in.
Apparently he was apart of a popular rock band when he was young, so he whipped out a few songs while is wife was the back up singer...

It was a really beautiful night.
A great way to end our stay in koh Samui.

big buddah

We decided to hire our scooters on the Wednesday and headed north west to check out the famous Big Buddha.
The road leading to the entrance was quite bumpy and looked over the west coast of the island - where most of the locals where found fishing with their nets.

Just out side of the shrine their were small markets.
We spent a couple of hours looking through the bits and pieces.
Danielle and Tiff bought a few presents for the family.

It's amazing how they can make something so simple so beautiful.

One lady was making flowers out of bars of soap.
Another was making beautiful necklaces and jewels our of dirty sea shells that where simply found on the beach.

Angthong National Marine Park

We all decided to organise a day trip to the Marine National Park.

A Jeep picked us up from our hotel early in the Tuesday morning. We where all pretty tired, but we quickly woke up as we where thrown from side to side in the back of the Jeep. We arrived at Fisherman's Pier where we jumped on our speed boat "Chad".

It took us only 45 min to actual arrive at the marine park. Our first stop was in the middle of the all the islands. After we where anchored we were given our snorkels but no fins. I was pretty keen to check out the coral - but was pretty disappointed with the murky water. While Danielle decided to stay on the boat, Tiff and i decided to head for shore. The water eventually got clearer and the fish became more vibrant with colour.

We were then taken to another island ( i think Koh Woa). It was absolutely beautiful - and so remote - it seemed untouched. There was a trail that led into the middle of the island. After the many steps and a couple of tight squeezes through rocks we where exposed to a lake "Emerald Lake" (also known as "Talay Nai").

It would have been great to have been able to spend the afternoon just swimming in its Crystal clear water, but it was barricaded off. I guess they have a right to protect their natural environment. You could see left over rubbish from previous tourist and the anger in the tour guides eyes.

We finished off having a lazy afternoon at the beach. I could seriously stay here for ever.

Namuang Water fall

I remember dad taking us to all these water falls last time we were in Ko samui.
So the three of us hired our own scutas and made our way to Manuang Water fall.

It was about a 25km drive from where we were staying and we actually kind of stumbled into it.

After realising our little automatic bikes couldn't handle the heat of the rocky hills we decided to walk the 150 mtrs to the water fall. It was beautiful. We got lost a couple of times, but as soon as we stopped walking and complaining you could hear the water rushing carelessly past its banks. The water was fresh and cold, the palms shaded the rocks and no one was there to disturb us.