Phuket Trip - Day 2: The rest of the day - Swim, Eat, Sightseeing, Play

On the way back to Phuket, most of us were sleeping. I, on the other hand, prefer to stand up beside the boat captain to feel the breeze. I was able to see the beautiful scenery. It took around 40 minutes from Khai to Phuket by speedboat. Arrived at the dock, we gave he tour staff some tips (100-200 Baht of tips were common in Phuket) and get off the boat. We were fetch by a bus to the terminal (it was quite far from the dock to the terminal)

Off the speedboat to the terminal

Once we were in the terminal, we saw a stand full of souvenirs. Remember that I mentioned that they took our picture before we board the boat? Yes, they sell the our pictures here. What interest us was the pineapple cookies. They sold the pineapple cookies for 100 Bath each plastic container. We bought some pineapple cookies and Ci El bought our picture =) (thx, Ci) We really need to hurry since everyone else on the van were waiting for us. So we boarded the van and head for our beloved hotel.

On the terminal

We were lucky to be the first group dropped to the hotel. Alighting from the van, I directly suggest them to swim =) It would be great to swim in a fresh water after a full day exposed with salt water -_-" We directly jumped into the swimming pool. It is really hard to express the feeling in words. After a full tiring day along with salty sea water, jumping into a swimming pool was really great!!! Juan decided to buy a cold beer in the swimming pool bar followed by me, Pdik and Alvin. Juan bought Heineken while I and the other tries the local beer, Singha. Once Juan realise that Singha was a great beer, even more that Singha was 20 Baht cheaper, he regretted for what he bought (a Singha cost us 50 Baht while a Heineken cost 70 Baht - we still amazed with such an affordable price in the 4 star hotel) =)

On the swimming pool

However, swimming pool and beer that day was a bliss. it was so great. Pdik then jump into the pool with his water proof camera. A crazy idea comes to me: To drink the beer in the swimming pool. We decided to try it. I was the first to try =) done with the swim, we go up one by one to bath.

On the way to Kata

Once everybody ready to go, we decided to go find something to eat around the hotel by foot. We walked along the street browse the area around the hotel while looking for a decent place to eat. We decided to eat italian food. The restaurant name was Il Capriccio, managed by a real Italiano =) The price in this restaurant was quite expensive, a decent dish cost us around 400 Baht, but we decided to go ahead and indulge ourselves with these foods. After several minutes, our dinner arrived. Frankly speaking, it was quite below our expectation. Once I was done, I made a call to the tour manager to rent a van for tomorrow (because we haven't decided earlier for our extra day) luckily he still managed to rent a van for us =)

On the way to Kata Area

Done with the dinner, we decided to bargain for the tuk tuk. When we bargain for the short distance, they ask for 400 baht (it was less than 4 km), I decided to ask for 200 Baht and they laugh at it. So we decided to walk our way back to the hotel. We stopped by to buy some snacks at 7 eleven.

The rest of the day were undocumented. There would be no picture of it. Back to the hotel, we decided to gather in Pdik and Juan's room to either chit-chatting, playing cards or playing other game. We were accompanied by tons of snacks, Singha and Jack Daniel along with green tea or coke as the mixer. We played the game that we saw on 'Inglorious Barterd' movie (the scene where they meet the girl spy in the underground tavern). So we write the name of a figure on a small piece of paper and shuffle it in the middle, then we pick a random paper and stick that paper on our forehead. Our job was to ask (with yes or no question) the other who I am. Once we guess the correct figure, we win. The last two persons and the person who made 3 times of wrong answer will have to drink ^^. It was really fun, but takes some time before we saw the punishment. So after 2 hours of this kind of game, we decided to play other game. This game purpose was to mention a word that was related to the word before (non-brand). Example: when I say 'white', the person next to me will have to say word related to white, may be 'rice' or 'paper'. The one who failed to come up with the related word will get the punishment = drink ^^ It was actually quite an easy game if you play it normally. But when you were half sober, it was quite challenging. Right, Juan? =D 


By the way, Ci El didn't join us because she was too sleepy and decided to sleep. We have several funny moment in playing these game, but I'll let my friend tell you in the comment boxes.