Ana_Phuket

Day 11
Sat. Jan. 27
Left Krabi town in the early morning. It was pretty easy to get tickets to Phuket town. By the time we finally made it was past noon. I didn't like the look of the city one bit. It was bit run down and had a desolate vibe to it. We were planning to stay one night there before heading to the famous beach of Patong only 20 minutes away. We started walking to the center of the town with the spicy sun hitting my face. I was burning. Vane had the greatest idea to stop for lunch so we can think and relax. Plus it was lunch time. So we did. Had my usual chicken and rice. Very good.

Did decide to go straight for Patong. We go on the pickup truck/bus and waited for 30 minutes until it got full. It was only 20 Baht each for the ride. Didn't have a reservation or anything like usual but kept hoping we'll find something not too pricy since Patong is for the super rich tourist with only few places for the backpackers. We got off what we thought it was the middle of town. We were so lucky that the street we picked first to go right we saw a hostel. Vane went inside and they only had one room for 500 baht (about $14 US). I did look around some more on the same street and everything was FULL and twice expensive. So I rushed back to Vane and told her we better take the place. The lady at the reception was super friendly and greeted us with a huge smile and told us we were very lucky. She thought we were Mexican and we let her think so. We didn't feel like explaining.

Couldn't believe we were in famous Phuket and were the tsunami hit two years ago. It seemed like nothing happen in this particular beach. Tons of bars and restaurant next to each other and crowds everywhere. It reminded me of Cancun but less pretty. I wasn't really impressed with the beach either. Mind you we arrived in time for sunset. We stay in bed like Vanesa calls it being "Fiona" from Shreck but we do the reverse we hide from the sun all day and come out at night. We decided we were only going to stay that night. We didn't like the vibe. It was a lot of couples or old man looking for some Thai buddy. We did decide to party here or at least go out at night so we did. Prices were a bit high and eating at nice restaurant was out of our budget. We decided to just buy beers from 7-eleven and just drink outside. The first time we did it, I felt we were bums on the side of the street with a bag of chips to go with our beer. We only needed a signed that said HELP US TO PARTY, WE CHEAP BACKPACKERS! J/K. Anyhow after one big beer we were both already giggling and having a good time just people watching. We walked around a bit more before we got our second beer. It was so fun just to chit chat and laugh. We kept walking up and down the bar street to find a place to dance but we didn't find anything we liked. By mistake we started walking down a street that had the famous "go go bars" with poles all over. I told Vane WE ARE IN THE WRONG PLACE. As we walked I finally saw some lady boys how the call them here. I have to say they were hot and sexy. Very beautiful. You couldn't tell they were men. Of course they were dancing to get attention from the tourist and pose with them for a picture. It was cool to see. We kept walking and walking and giggling and giggling. We made our third stop at different convenient store for another beer. By this time I need some food. Vane kept checking on me asking if I needed to go to the bathroom, puke or was hungry. This time I was so hungry and wanted to pass out. We went to the first place that had fast food. I had a slice of pizza, it was so disgusting. I ate it all. Then I felt much better. Vane was a buzzing too. She talked with some Thai boys asking if they knew were to go dancing. Somehow they felt obligated to help us and asked us to follow them so we did. They were also visiting Phuket. It was funny. They seemed really nice. But after we kept walking with them for a while and still no dancing we left them. Our last stop was an Aussie bar for a beer. I didn't want anything else to drink. I was doing just fine.
Oh, yes I was forgetting as we kept walking vendors on the bar streets they kept offering a free ping pong show. Vane asked me what that was and silly me told her I think is just ping pong. Then one of the guys showed me a flyer of the ping pong show and it wasn't the game. It was a sexual thing. It was probably some kinky erotica show. I started laughing. I did get that vibe that the beautiful thai women dress all sexy were looking for the rich old men to spend money and more money on them. It was definitely a one night stand and give me your baht type of place. I'm glad we experienced it but I was glad to get out of there.

Day 13
Sun. Jan. 28
Woke early with a minor hangover. Vane bought water for us. I felt dehydrated! Left town about 10 en la manana. I was so happy to get the hell out of there. We went back to Phuket town. Found one place open for lunch. Had something different for a change Chicken with cashew nuts. DELICIOUS! Was probably the best meal so far. And it wasn't too spicy.

Took the next bus to Phang-Nga about and 2 hours north of Phuket. It was a smaller city and it seemed like a good place to hangout our last two days before heading back to crazy Bangkok. And it was! Getting out the tiny bus station the city seemed peaceful and quieter for sure. Found another cheap hostel back to 150 baht a night. The old couple at the reception was adorable, husband and wife running the hostel. So cute! The lady walked us through the end of a rundown hall. It looked a bit sketchy. It was actually quit nice and roomy. It even had its own bathroom and it was clean. I've stayed in worse places. We took the room. Had nothing plan. Just sat in the room reading and talking and enjoying the shade. The rest of the day slowly flew by.


Day 14
Mon. Jan. 29
Woke up early. Took my little sweet time to get it up. Decided not to do any tours. This town has to offer similar things to what we've seen already. It wasn't worth the effort we decided. So we made it a lazy day. Did change some money, bought our bus ticket to Bangkok, Vane got her haircut and visited a spooky temple. We walked a bit to get to this Heaven and Hell temple. We manage to see only the Hell part and we freaked out and left. We didn't see any tourist just locals. The first thing we saw was devilish stone figures with deformed and bloody faces. We kept walking some more and saw some weird looking monkeys. They looked evil with red faces and just skinny looking. Vane and I got a bad vibe and just left. Vane said lets go before we get a curse or something. We never saw the heaven part. It was funny!

Another day gone by. I'm super excited that in two days I'll time again.