Phuket is not the only island in the Andaman sea, but it is one of the provinces in the south-west Thailand. It is very famous tourists location. Island offer very attractive beaches and resorts on the west. The interesting fact in Thailand – anyone resort couldn’t own the beach so it is possible to find a place on the beach before the most luxurious resort. Coast of Phuket was destroyed by a devastating wave tsunami in 26.12.2004. All beaches and resorts are fully restored and equipped with alarm towers and sirens now.
2.11.2017 – 6.11.2017
We landed at 7:52 local time. The temperature was 28 grades. We had to stand line before immigration office at the airport. We caught the slowest line and waited for one and half hour here. We knew that we needed to find a taxi and pay in local currency because we found our resort one hour from the airport. We had to change from dollars to Thailand bath. Then we looked for our luggage. We came later so luggage didn’t lay on the belt but was removed aside.
Accident at the airport
I remember that before our journey Martin said about different habits in other countries. It is forbidden to throw toilet paper into the toilet, it has to be thrown into the trash can. There are narrow pipelines and they are blocked early. And you know….when you wait longer, organize some papers and prepare for hour traveling by taxi…..I said that I had to go to the toilet. Every time I check and disinfect these places and automatically I throw toilet paper into the toilet. When I lifted my head I saw a big notice board. Well, what do you think I did….
Later we went outside, where a lot of guys from taxi service called for us and offered their service. We knew that we will have a more expensive price because we are tourists but we went a far away. Finally, total price was 700 THB and it was okay. We were enjoying our transfer because our driver didn’t know a way to resort and still asked us. ( btw. He had two phones with google maps)
When we were 300 meters from the resort, Martin started to show the way our driver. The driver didn’t understand us, turned around and told us that he found a different and better resort. We didn’t accept because we had a resort (from Airbnb in Sugar Palm Residence) and wanted stop. We got off and walked alone.
Accommodation
Our accommodation was with a kitchen so we decided that we will cook here. It is better than eating in the expensive restaurant. We went to the research our location with shops. We had lucky because close us we found Tesco Lotus and 7/11. Both of them looked like Czech shop Jednota COOP. Farther we found Fruit market, where we bought a fresh coconut and bananas every day. Because our resort wasn’t near the beach and we weren’t with other tourists we were an attraction for local people. Prices were around 25 THB for us, but for local people around 5 THB. We were easy sacrifices for trades but we still recounted the prices for our currency and said that it was a good deal.
Walking to Robinson Department Store and Central Phuket Festival
Places comparable with Czech Cerny most. Many shops and food court. There was the same decoration as our country. Christmas is coming here, the only sun, hot and palm make a different picture.
PS: I had one goal from shopping. I needed a hairdryer because I was bored of drying hair around three hours.
Ending
We wanted to look around during our accommodation. How looks like a common life and people. We tried connection with our family. I am so happy that we confirmed the connection with Skype on the other side of the world.
We used a pool with a beautiful view for relaxing in our resort.
We close our stay on the island and next day we move to the airport.
We fly to the north to Chiang Mai.