Bangkok to Phuket

May 11 to 22:

So the last little while I have been feeling under the weather some and this coupled with some not-to-be-understated laziness. I had a bit of a cold when we were leaving Istanbul and as we dealt with the overnight flight, the time difference and the unbelievable heat and humidity this just morphed and worsened. I am much better now and will attempt to give you a brief summery of some of the events of this past little while.

The Istanbul Airport was crap and things were pretty delayed. At the Malaysia Air counter they warned us that we could get turned around at the Bangkok airport if we didn’t have a return ticket to show plans to leave. They made us sign a waver then we were on our way. We made it to Bangkok no problem after a three hour stop over in Kuala Lumpur.  And got to out hostel, the Lub D Siam Square with ease. Siam Square is a really nice uptown shopping district with some beautiful malls. We did most of our eating in Bangkok in the malls food courts though we also found an A&W.

One Day we went on a shopping expedition and Pat bought a new wallet and some shorts. Another day we saw some Thai boxing going on in an outside ring sponsored by one of the malls.

On one of our first evenings there it was a Monday or Tuesday and was the last day of a Thai long weekend. We ran into a Teacher from Vancouver back to his native Thailand for a visit and he told us about how the government tourism office was having a sale on trips for the long weekend only. This being the last day of the sale we got a taxi to the tourism office and got a trip that would take us to Phuket for 5 days then to Koh Pha Ngan island for a week before heading back to Bangkok.

I am currently in Phuket, specifically the Patong area. It was pouring the day we got in by overnight bus and we thought this didn’t look so good for our stay here but since then it has been much drier if not sunny. Our sleep cycles have still not completely adjusted to the time zone because of factors like terrible sleep on the overnight bus but we have been using our late nights to play video games.