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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Bangkok/Phuket Day 5 - 24th May 2012 (Thursday)

A continuation of my Bangkok/Phuket photos! It's so hard to upload the pictures onto blogger as they keep disappearing?!?!?

Phuket Day 2 - Phi Phi Islands, No. 6 Restaurant

So that day, we headed out for our Islands Tour! I think we paid 900 Baht each for the speedboat tour, which was reasonable but apparently was not the cheapest. The driver was supposed to come pick us up at a certain time, but he came almost half an hour earlier?!?! So we actually had to go off without even having breakfast! We only managed to grab a small croissant each before jumping into the minibus. It was a seriously grumpy morning for the four of us.

My waterproof camera pouch that I bought over Ebay so that I can use my own camera to take pictures of the fishes! =D

Starting out the day with drizzling rain!

At the waiting point having some tea while the other people who were also on our tour trickle in.

We were really bored and hungry (we blamed it on our bus driver who came SOOOO EARLY, we were the first of almost 20 buses to arrive, stupid right). Serene and I entertained ourselves with one of the dogs at the waiting point!

This was us when the waves and all were still calm. HAHA. Halfway through, the waves were insane! It ended with a lot of screams. HAAH.

The guy on the left is our tour guide for the day! He's called Sunny. He was a really good guide and so we tipped him quite a lot!! =D He told us that his younger brother died in the tsunami, super sad.

The cliffs/islands when we were approaching Maya Beach! Maya Beach was our first stop for the day and it was quite disappointing. It was clean and I guess the waters were quite clear, etc, but it was a really small stretch of beach and there was nothing there. JUST THE BEACH. Hungry us tried to go find a snack bar but when we found it, it was totally abandoned.

Sherry and I sneaking in a quick snapshot on calmer waters!

Serene and Lili on Maya Beach!

The water was really nice and clean!

Shortly after setting foot on Maya Beach, our guide, Sunny, convinced us that we needed to take a jump shot while in the water. HAHA. We have a multitude of shots showing us preparing to jump (see above) and landing very awkwardly with water splashing (see two pictures down).

Partially successful shot.

Very unglam landing.

Finally a perfect jump shot! =D

This is how Maya Beach looks like from sea!

This was an obligatory photo to prove that we were at Maya Beach. Haha.

This is how crowded Maya Beach is. It is not really worth going unless it is already part of the tour.

We then moved on to Pileh Cave. It not a stop, meaning we didn't go down anywhere. The boat just went very near the cave so that we can look in. If I'm not wrong, Pileh Cave was where the locals used to find birds' nest in.

More random rocks/islands/cliffs.

The next stop was Sunny Bay for snorkeling! I think before this we drove past some Monkey Beach or something where there were lots of monkeys in the trees and they would try to catch the bread that we were throwing to them. Nothing fantastic. It was the same type of monkeys that we have in Pierce Reservoir, etc. Anyway, back to snorkeling, we had to get our gear on! Lifejackets, flippers, headgear! Flippers are seriously so hard to swim in! We abandoned them less than half and hour in. HAHA.

Our flippers! FYI, we had to jump off the top of the boat into the water, and I was sitting on the top of the boat summoning the courage to jump off (it was quite high okay), WHEN THE BOAT PEOPLE PUSHED ME OFF. OMG. Was super shocked but laughed it off! HAHA.

Looking for fishies!

Fishies furiously attacking the bread!

After Sunny Bay, we went off to lunch on another island (no idea which though)! I think it was one of the Khai islands (there are two!)!

Our very last stop was the other Khai Island for more snorkeling and sun tanning!

This island was seriously the best! Ample deck chairs with umbrellas! Each deck chair's rental is 100 Baht I think? Plus there was sooo many food and drink stalls! Had corn on cob with butter and salt! SUPER DAMN NICE! There was also a place to snorkel but it wasn't impressive because there were so many dead coral on the beach that made walking into the water so painful and the fishes were the same variety as Sunny Bay.