I really want to talk more about our time in Phuket, before I move on to Cambodia... there has been so much to see and take in on this trip, and I feel like I really haven't done any of it justice with the short amount of time that I've had at the computer. I have 30 minutes right now, before our driver comes to take us to the airport, so I'll try to at least catch up through Angkor (with a G - I misspelled it before) Wat, where we've spent the last 2.5 days exploring in Cambodia.
Really quickly first... with minimal time to spend online, I just caught up a little... and I have to say TIGER WOODS WHAT???? WHAT??? And BILLY WAGNER, WHAT??? GO BRAVES! WOW, it is time for me to come back home and plug back into society I think!
OK, back to Phuket! On our first full day, we went to THE BEACH. Like, duh. No, I mean THE Beach, as in, the beach that was the set of the movie "The Beach"... if you haven't read the book or seen the movie, here is a quick synopsis... it's about a group of tourists who grow tired of well... other tourists and crowded, commericialized beaches (see: Patong) and are in search of the perfect, undiscovered beach in Thailand... there is a legend of one, but no one knows if it really exists until Leo Dicaprio is given a handdrawn map by a drugged out crazy person, just before he (the crazy person) kills himself and so Leo and a couple fellow travellers go off to find The Beach.
WELL, Ko Phi Phi Lei would fit that description (of paradise) perfectly, IF it were undisovered, because it is a crescent shaped cove of soft, white sand; perfectly clear and warm waters; and soaring limestone peaks, covered with tropical greenery. BUT, it's unfortunately been discovered for a long time, and because of the movie the Beach it's more popular than ever before (it was a popular site to visit before the movie too) and boatloads (literally) of tourists are dropped there for 30 minutes at a time, before reboarding their boats to go to the other side of the Island (Phi Phi Don). Despite the crowds, I still LOVED it because for some insane reason, not everyone wanted to swim, and I was in the water in about 2 seconds. Give me clear ocean water, and I want to be in it. So as long as I looked away from the beach iteself, and looked out on the limestone towers and ocean, I could forget for a while about the throngs of tourists snapping pictures behind me.
The following day we took a tour to James Bond Island (It has a "Ko"Thai name, that I can't remember at the moment). The thing to see in this bay is again the limestone towers that rise from the ocean and dot the landscape all around, instead of around just one bay, like on Koy Phi Phi. They're all around, rising up out of nowhere, like a giant chess set in the ocean.
I'm not even to Koy Racha, also known as Koy Raya, which was my favorite of the three days in Phuket, and our driver is here to take us to the airport!! I'll try to post again from Bangkok about Koy Raya, and the last few days in Cambodia - Angkor Wat is really a magical place!!
Love you all!
Meagan
Really quickly first... with minimal time to spend online, I just caught up a little... and I have to say TIGER WOODS WHAT???? WHAT??? And BILLY WAGNER, WHAT??? GO BRAVES! WOW, it is time for me to come back home and plug back into society I think!
OK, back to Phuket! On our first full day, we went to THE BEACH. Like, duh. No, I mean THE Beach, as in, the beach that was the set of the movie "The Beach"... if you haven't read the book or seen the movie, here is a quick synopsis... it's about a group of tourists who grow tired of well... other tourists and crowded, commericialized beaches (see: Patong) and are in search of the perfect, undiscovered beach in Thailand... there is a legend of one, but no one knows if it really exists until Leo Dicaprio is given a handdrawn map by a drugged out crazy person, just before he (the crazy person) kills himself and so Leo and a couple fellow travellers go off to find The Beach.
WELL, Ko Phi Phi Lei would fit that description (of paradise) perfectly, IF it were undisovered, because it is a crescent shaped cove of soft, white sand; perfectly clear and warm waters; and soaring limestone peaks, covered with tropical greenery. BUT, it's unfortunately been discovered for a long time, and because of the movie the Beach it's more popular than ever before (it was a popular site to visit before the movie too) and boatloads (literally) of tourists are dropped there for 30 minutes at a time, before reboarding their boats to go to the other side of the Island (Phi Phi Don). Despite the crowds, I still LOVED it because for some insane reason, not everyone wanted to swim, and I was in the water in about 2 seconds. Give me clear ocean water, and I want to be in it. So as long as I looked away from the beach iteself, and looked out on the limestone towers and ocean, I could forget for a while about the throngs of tourists snapping pictures behind me.
The following day we took a tour to James Bond Island (It has a "Ko"Thai name, that I can't remember at the moment). The thing to see in this bay is again the limestone towers that rise from the ocean and dot the landscape all around, instead of around just one bay, like on Koy Phi Phi. They're all around, rising up out of nowhere, like a giant chess set in the ocean.
I'm not even to Koy Racha, also known as Koy Raya, which was my favorite of the three days in Phuket, and our driver is here to take us to the airport!! I'll try to post again from Bangkok about Koy Raya, and the last few days in Cambodia - Angkor Wat is really a magical place!!
Love you all!
Meagan
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