Traveled Duration: 4D3N
Traveled From: 17 July 2008, Air Asia Flight at 12.45pm (Malaysia Time)
Flight Duration: 1 hour 15 mins
Traveled Until: 20 July 2008, Air Asia Flight at 4.10pm (Thailand Time – 1 hour behinds Malaysia Time)
Transport to travel around Phuket: Rented a Honda Wave 200cc motorbike with the price 800baht which is about RM80 for 4 days
Accommodation in Phuket: The Orchid & Spa Hotel at Kalim Bay (Budget Hotel)
Weather: Mostly raining (not the right time to travel to Phuket in July)
Day 1
- Rode from Phuket International Airport to Kalim Bay
- Took an hour to arrive the hotel - Checked in to the hotel at 4pm
- Rode to Phuket Town for dinner
- The town wasn’t as what we thought in our mind (a very ‘hot’ town). We had our dinner at one of the restaurants which we saw there were quite a number of people having dinner there. We found that communication was a problem when ordering our food. The restaurant's workers did not understand English and we did not know Thai. =.=" Anyway, we still able to get food to eat, but the food of the restaurant that we went was quite expensive with small portion and oily. What a bad dinner experience!
Day 2
- Went to Kalim Bay for photo shooting
- Went to Patong Beach (the most happening and most crowded place in Phuket Island, especially at the night)
- Patong beach is a long beach. Along the beach, there are a lot of parking space for cars and motorcycles. What a nice and well-structured beach! - Second round breakfast at McDonalds (first round breakfast at the hotel) because it was raining. The price of the meals in McDonalds there was slightly higher than in Malaysia.
- Visitng the largest shopping mall in Phuket named Jungceylon. It has 4 different zones:
- Zone 1: Silang Boulevard - food court, massage, botiques, sport complex, Thai art & handicraft shop and cafes.
- Zone 2: The Port - Featuring Jungceylon Water Fountain in an outdoor section where the Chinese Junk Boat and the Musical Fountain light show performances are held every night.
- Zone 3: Sino Phuket - A lot of stalls selling clothes and ladies accessories. There are restaurants, cafes and an archery center.
- Zone 4: Phuket Square - Carrefour is the anchor tenant. There is Robinson Department Store as well. - Visiting Karon Beach
- Karon Beach is a very long beach. There are a lot of beach accommodation, guesthouses, restaurants, street food, open air go go bars and Karon massage parlors. Besides Patong, Karon is famous with its nightlife too. - Visiting Chalong Bay at the South East of Phuket Island
- We spent about 40 minutes to arrive Chalong Bay from Karon Beach. As it was raining, so we settled down at the Pavilion. There was a hawker on her motorcycle selling fried noodles. Since we did not take our lunch, Boon then ordered 1 set of fried noodle from her. The hawker had a very good business there. A lot of people bought the food from her. The fried noodle only cost about RM4 and it was in a very big portion for 2 persons. Damn cheap if comparing with KL's fried noodle and it tasted very nice. Yummy yummy!
- After finished the fried noodle, we walked out to the bay to take photos. We saw there was few mini buses carried the passengers. Those passengers were back from diving or island hopping. After some photographing, we left Chalong Bay. - Visiting Wat Chalong, the biggest, the most famous and the most important Buddhist Temple in Phuket Island.
- It was raining, but there were a lot of visitors. We saw some prayers set off the fire crackers in a beehive-shaped oven in front of the temple. I read from the online article that it is to show the gratitude for prayers that have been answered. Since we were there, so I also made my prayer there.
- Inside the main hall of the temple, there were a few people kneeling on the floor and praying with the red wooden blocks made from bamboo roots and shaped like twin half of a mango. This is used to ask a question and get the answer 'yes' or 'no' from the buddhist's god. Some people were praying using the bamboo chopsticks in can to ask for fortune. I did that too and I got a good fortune as said in the paper. I hope it's true to me. I'm praying... - Went back to Karon Beach to catch up the sunset view.
- Went back to Kalim Beach for evening view of photos shooting.
- Went back to hotel for bathing
- Went to Patong Town for dinner at a restaurant named OK Restaurant. The boss could speak mandarin and he recommended us food to order.
- After dinner, we walked around the Patong Town to see the night life there.
Day 3
- Photo shooting at Kalim Bay
- Visiting Kathu Waterfall
- A very quiet waterfall, less visitors. - Visiting Rang Hill, Phuket Town view point
- Walked around Phuket Town
- Lunch at N.C. Kitchen, Phuket Town
- Body massage at one of the massage shop in Phuket Town
- Visiting Rwai Beach for some photo shooting
- Visiting Phrom Thep Cape, Phuket’s famous sunset view
- There is a saying that "No trip to Phuket would be complete without viewing the breathtaking panoramic vista from the southern tip of the island".
- We were so lucky as the weather of our Day 3's trip was so pretty! We did not miss the breathtaking sunset view in Phuket. It was the best place I had visited in Phuket. - Dinner at The Pizza Company, Patong Town
Day 4
- Visiting the Boat Lagoon
- Went to Tesco to buy some local food to bring back to Kuala Lumpur
- Having some food at Tesco's food court - Checkout out from the hotel at 12pm
- Rode (with heavy luggage) to Surin Beach
- There were a few hawkers. We bought some food to try there. - Rode to airport to return the motorcycle and to take flight to come back to Kuala Lumpur
