Phuket and Phi Phi Island, 6 days 5 nights - Part 2

Day 2 - 21st Apr 06

We woke up early, real early at 6.30am ! So that we could be ready for our day trip to James Bond Island. Our ride came to pick us up at 7.00 am. And off we went to dunno-what-name-jetty to board a boat which will be our ride of the day.

By the time we got up the boat, the 6 of us were sooo hungry. Since the tour guide told us that there'll be breakfast served on the boat, we didn't eat anything beforehand ! When the breakfast arrived :

Egads, that plate of 'kuih' to serve all the 20 (including the rest of the tourists who joined the tour) of us in the boat ??! The tour guide even took the time to give some basic introduction of the kuih to us, and I'm thinking 'just hand me the food !' It's 80% like nyonya kuihs that we have here. Most of the 'angmoh' tourist took a few bites only, in fact most of them didn't even touch the kuih, I guess it's not to their taste, which is more the good news to us cause the 6 of us just surrounded the plate and wallop almost everything ! ...hahahahaha...Malaysians Boleh !

Along the way in the boat, we did pass by lots of tiny little islands scattered around Phuket. At first, we were all 'wah...this one very nice, that one very nice'....after a while, it's 'how long more to reach James Bond Island ?? '..

At last, we reached James Bond Island, it's made famous by the James Bond movie (duuh..) starring Roger Moore....ya, it's long time ago, and I don't know the name of the movie....guess who wasn't paying attention when tour guide was giving us a briefing?....

Someone told me that Roger Moore circled this thingy in the movie :

Next up, it's kayaking in don't-remember-what-name-island. Basically, we went kayaking around the islands, got into some cool caves and paya bakau area. There's are 'kayakers' to take us, so we just sit there and gawk at the islands.....if we kayak ourselves, tenggelam (sink) already.

Then it's back to the boat for lunch ! There's fried chicken, squids, fried noodle, mixed vege (seems like there's only 1 kind of vege dish in Phuket, which is mixed vege...?!) and lots more. Once we saw the drumsticks, we were ready to pounce!

After lunch, it's off to another island for some swimming and lazing around, nothing special there.

Then we headed to Panyee Village (hey, I remembered this name). Which is also known as Muslim Fisherman Village. Where most of the villagers there are Muslim and duh...fisherman. The whole village is actually contructed above the sea. There are stilts underneath and planks of wood and slabs to cement that make up the floor. Under the planks of woods you can see sea water underneath. Imagine there's even a school in the village. It's not advisable to go into the village on your own cause it's very very easy to get lost. The tour guide also warned us that there are villagers there doing some monkey shows and can have the monkey take photos with the tourist, but we are not to do that because the monkey will actually steal your jewelries and money !

And that was the end of our trip, we made it back to the jetty, got onto the minibus and back to our hotel.

It was the tiring tiring trip but well worth it. We were getting sunburn already even with sunblock applied. By evening, we went for dinner (tomyam(again), tom ka kai(again), green curry chicken, mixed vege (and again) etc etc).

Edit: Wrong wrong, we had that dinner on our first night in Phuket. On the second day, we had McD ! Samurai Pork burger......sooo yummy-licous.....too bad we don't have it in Malaysia....

Again we walked around the Patong area to see if there's anything interesting and cheap to buy, also need to scout for some souvenirs. But I find shopping in Patong a bit dissappointing. The stuff are expensive. One shop charged me more that Rm150 for a lousy ripoff bag, of course I didn't buy. Then, for some ripoff Billabong shorts...it's RM50, after some bargaining I managed to get it down to RM25 and the owner didn't want to lower the price anymore, so I didn't buy too. And the people there weren't exactly very friendly either. It's quite a hassle to bargain with them, some will ignore you when you ask for lower price, some will have 'tactics' to pressure you to buy ! After a few tries, all of us got quite sien already, and just settled for look look and see see only. Well, I guess we are 'cheapo' tourist to them, they have all the angmoh tourist who are have more spending power.

We also signed up another trip to Phang Nga bay for white water rafting and elephant trekking for the next day !