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On sunday October 17 we left lovely Chiang Mai and arrived in Phuket, the "tropical paradise" of
Thailand, an Island south of Bangkok. Phuket was a beautiful place, surrounded by many smaller
Islands with plenty to see and do. We spent 9 days in Phuket (John & Brenda only stayed 5 days).
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In Phuket we stayed at
The Diamond Cliff Resort
which was a magnificent resort located on the side of a hill at the northern end of
Patong Beach.
The resort featured 3 pools, multiple restaraunts, a health spa, and huge
suites with multiple rooms and plenty of living space. Basically, we were spoilt!
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Patong Beach is a large town which extends the length of the Patong beach itself. It
is a major tourist town with many shops and restaraunts, and lots of markets and
tour companies ready to sell anything they can to the tourists.
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There were plenty of activities and sights to see at Phuket and we tried to do and see
them all! We started with a canoing trip where a boat took us to the middle of a group
of islands in Phang-Nga and we climbed into canoes and were rowed in and out of these
islands, through caves into hidden lagoons, and saw fish, crabs, bats and monkeys.
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Along the way the boat stopped at "James Bond Island" which is a big rock sticking
out of the water which apparently featured in the James Bond movie, The Man With The
Golden Gun. We still have to watch the movie again to confirm this fact!
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Another day we took a trip to
Phi-Phi Island.
This is supposed to be an island paradise but we really only got to see one beach and
not much else. Fortunately the beach was lovely and the weather was sunny, so we
enjoyed our afternoon on the beach. We did some sunbaking ...
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... some snorkeling ...
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... and some .... appreciation of the sights!
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Luckily our resort is a little more luxurious than the accomodation they had to offer
on this beach.
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We decided the best way to tour Phuket and see the sights was to hire a car, so we
hired this cool Jeep Wrangler. We kept it for a couple of days and drove around most
of Phuket, seeing the Phuket Aquarium, the Gibbon Rehabilition Farm, and many other cool
sights which you wouldn't see from organized tours. Not to mention the experience of
driving in Thailand! An experience we will leave for the reader to discover for themselves.
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Chris also did some SCUBA diving with
Santana which he says was excellent.
On the right the gang is enjoying the boat trip back from a day of SCUBA and snorkeling
at Racha Yai Island.
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The sunset views from our hotel room were pretty spectacular, as was the whole
holiday. We highly recommend a trip to Thailand and will probably be back there
ourselves before too long.
Chris, Jacqui, John and Brenda.
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