Day 19: Back to Bangkok

After taking our first internal flight from Phucket to Bangkok our second 24 hours in Bangkok began. We had some food and got ready to go out with Kimmy popping out to get her hair extentions done (she lasted 3 weeks before she cracked), Vietnamese hair special, how could she resist?!. An evening filled with drinks, banter with other backpackers, facetime to the girls back home.  Before we knew it was almost 6:00AM and our bus to Cambodia left at 6:00AM ooopps! With no sleep we took a tuk tuk to the bus station. Tuk tuks normally only fit 2 people with no luggage. However the thai man insisted 4 of us will fit with luggage, it was a very crammed journey with legs and arms hanging out of the tuk tuk everywhere.

Day 18: Phuket

We got a boat from Koh Phi Phi to Phuket which took about an hour and once we arrive we settled into our Hostal which was a room for 4. That evening we went for a family meal in a lovely restaurant lit   up with fairy lights on the beach front. For Niks and kerry it was tea on Jodie and KR (Thanks guys!) We enjoyed some firecracker noddles....yummy....hot hot. Leaving Jack (although I'm sure he would of loved it) behind, we rushed to ths Simon Ladyboy Show - it was fab show with some very convincing ladyboys.

We got back and before we knew it we were all out again with a group from the Hostal. Kimmy already deciding she didn't like most of them..very funny! We had some buckets, played the nail game and had a dance. Dancing away it came to me that one of them looked like Arg (Towie) with Kim agreeing she walked over....
Kimmy - " You really look like someone"
Arg lookalike - "let me guess it begins with an A...."
Kimmy - "yeah....Adam Sandler"
Arg lookalike - " *Beepoff I know you watch Towie"
With the night coming to to an end we went to Maccy d's with Kimmy shouting at Arg lookalike "ARG NO CARBS BEFORE MARBS!" And taking sneaky photos of him, it was then time for bed.

Phuket was very commercialised and set up for tourists with many americanised bars/restaurants. It had a lovely beach called patong beach. The tuk tuks here were very different. They had flashing lights, sound systems and fancy rims. It was like they had been on pimp my ride.

Day 15: Ko Samui to Ko Phi Phi

We stumbled onto the boat-coach-boat to Koh Phi Phi all still feeling a bit typsy and extremely tired with Kerry being sick most of the way! We met 4 lovely English girls from Surrey on the coach, who filled us in on all there stories from their Thai adventure which unfortunately included food poisoning. When we arrived in Phi Phi we had already pre-booked to stay in bungalows (with a pool). On arrival we discovered it was double the price so we agreed to stay there that night and move to the bungalows next door the following night for half the price. We went to a Reggae bar with Thai boxing for a drink and met with Beth (from Uni) for a good catch up before heading to bed for our earliest night of the trip so far!

Koh Phi Phi was a pretty little island with no cars in the main town so the main form of transport round the island is by foot or push bike. To save us carrying our luggage to the bungalows a poor Thai man pushed it in a large cage with wheels, a bit like a giant wheelbarrow, as we followed behind. I guess it is their version of a taxi but on foot.