Thailand Update

Hi again, we have settled in to Thailand and made it to our hotel here in Phuket. It’s so luxurious compared to the hostels never been staying in and having a pool and beach is a nice change. The first day wasn’t so nice as it rained and was cloudy the entire time but we still found some time to go down and check out the beach (its really quiet because this is their low season).

On Saturday we took a taxi out to a more secluded beach on a remote part of the island. Ao Sane was the name of the beach but we walked back and passed lots of other more popular ones which were nice as well. 

After driving all the way back across the island we took a little nap and then went out for dinner in a busier more touristy area of town about 20 minutes away by walking. After dinner we walked through the markets and what we thought was the busy part of Phuket. We soon stumbled across Bangla road which is the famous (or infamous) street for bars in Phuket. It was certainly less ‘PG rated’ then the rest of the town - walking through the busy crowds and past the bar advertisers was hectic to say the least. We then started to walk back to our hotel and it started to rain again… of course. 

The weather seems to be slowly getting nicer though, we spent yesterday by the pool and in the room just relaxing. Anna hasn’t been feeling great and was sick Sunday but was feeling well enough to dip in the pool around lunch and go for a popsicle after. 

Today she is doing a bit better and had a light breakfast and gatorade but is still trying to rest and get better. another somewhat sunny and warm day in Phuket so hopefully we can spend some time by the pool again and maybe go down to the beach by our hotel. 

Tomorrow we will hopefully go to Phang Nga for our elephant paradise experience where we get to help with washing and feeding elephants at an ethical park in a more northern part of Thailand. It looks really amazing in the pictures we’ve seen. We also have a boat tour around the smaller islands planned for Wednesday (our second last day here). 

Anyway, just wanted to update everyone back home because it has been a while since either of us have posted and Anna figured we should let everyone know we made it to Thailand safe and sound. 

Also, we’ve booked our flights from Bangkok to Hong Kong finally so here is the flight information:

Thai AirAsia flight no. FD  508

from Bangkok to Hong Kong - June  26th 

DMK (bangkok) 6:35 AM --> HKG (hongkong) 10:15 AM

(the internet has been too dodgy so photos will have to wait for now)