A bridge & crazy Thai drivers

Survived the craziest van ride to see this stuff

 POW  cemetry

 River Kwai longboat ride

 River Kwai bridge built by POWs then blowen up by the Allies

Those are undies not DTs

Thailand a country filled with building both old and new

This blog will be for the last two days. Rather than blab on with a big story I will let the pictures do the talking. In a nutshell was guided around Bangkok, went and got some clothes made at a tailor and went to a flee market yesterday. And to today went to ancient ruins of old Thai capital Authera and King’s holiday palace which was the original palace when Authera was the capital. 

Number One tailor in the world according to National Geographic in 1987

For you Dad

Dinner fit for a baller

 Mortal Kombat 1 & 2 filmed here

Make the shopping stop!

Busy day today we had to get up early and catch our flight to Bangkok, it was a very smooth flight I could not fault the little plane in the below picture.

Arrived at our hotel called Pullman King Power it is SUPER nice and it is connected to a massive duty free store with a coach store (just thought I would let you know that Mum) in it and I’ve got a further 20% off because we are staying at the Pullman hotel on top of the duty free.

So after checking in we went shopping and DAMMMMMMMMN too many shops here for example the area Felicity took me to has 4 shopping centers in it and each are about the size of 4 Chermsides. The below picture is just for Eleanor J.

Also this photo is for Matt

Now all shopped out we are sitting in the hotel bar using the free Wi-fi and listening to a live band singing the song “fly me to the moon.”

Also Happy Birthday Felicity

Hope all is well at home

Alex, the Earth last hope

Terry Bogard

Day five started the same as the days before with a good breakfast, and then we headed onto the main street and got a tuk tuk. Today we went and saw the Elephants, when we arrived there at the main entrance was a baby elephant and its trainer to greet us. It was so cool we got to pat and take photos with the baby elephant and also feed it bananas. As Felicity said “awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww so cure”.

After waiting around a bit our elephant was ready to go; the elephant was bumpy to ride on but you got used to it. I think our elephant was the naughty one because its trainer roused on him a bit. What they do is take you on about a 45minute ride on the elephant up this county hill and once up top of the hill you get a good view of the other side of the coastline.

Once our elephant ride was over we went back to the big shopping centre in Phuket and we (Felicity) did a lot of shopping. But the funniest thing happened at the shops I was standing at this little store that sold Anime figures and this loud mouth American came rushing over and said “Wow Naruto figures! ………….. OH GOD Dragonball Z I’m losing me sh#t!!!!!!.” All I could do is just laugh with the guy but I could understand it was DBZ after all.

So once Felicity was done with the mall we got ice cream and headed back to the hotel. After freshening up we went and had dinner and went back to the markets one last time. At the moment I’m watching the King of Fighter movie (didn’t even know their was one) while writing this blog and this is my last blog from Phuket hopefully we will have wi-fi at the hotel in Bangkok.

Vegeta rocks!

One

Alexander

Flying Fox Extreme; Happy Happy Luck

Today started as any other day we went down and had a good breakfast but little did we know we were about to have an extreme adventure (or that’s at least what the brochure said). We got picked up by this Thai man in a ute with seats in the tray and a roof over it and then he drove us to our adventure. Firstly we had a couple of kilometers walk through the hills of Patong Bay (lots of bird calls around) it was your stranded rainforest just like at Mount Glorious only without the drift kids driving  and no road going up there only walking tracks.

After walking awhile we came across the first adventure it was a rock climb up this rock surface there was safety gear but nooooooooooowhere near Australia standards. We did it but Felicity was kind of scared and was regretting signing up for this tour but after the climb it got fun we went through about half a dozen flying foxes that flew through the rainforest canopy and they are awesome fun with a great view of the rainforest below and the bay out on the horizon.

The fist one I must admit it, I was scared because you had to walk up the dodgy wooden ladder that some Thai guy probably build in his back yard and it was hanging over a step rocky drop we made it up. Once on the landing I didn’t know what to expect because we have never been on one of these big flying foxes before, the worst bit is hopping off the landing but after the fist flying fox the rest was easy.

All flying foxed out we walked back through the rain forest saw a waterfall absailed down the rock surface and walked back to the ute.

Getting back to the hotel we were exhausted so we had a shower and got pizza for a late lunch and I had a nap.

Then it was time for an afternoon swim Felicity also got a massage on the beach after that we went back to the hotel and got ready for going out for dinner and walking around. We found a place that had a plate of food for less than $3 damn! With dinner done we went for a walk along the beach, I bought this lantern that you light and watch float up into the night sky like a balloon. I really enjoyed watching the silly thing float high into the sky and then finally burn out.

By the way you can also buy fireworks and set them off on the beach but I didn’t

“great work you missed all but one target Simpson”

“did I?”

Hope Brisbane doesn’t get any damage for the storm, it is on the news over here on CNN

SS Alex

Is Phi Phi one word or two?

Got up and hit the ground running today

We got picked up from our hotel and taken to the pier where our jet boat was a waiting us. Hopped on and it was a bumpy very fast ride (but worth it in the end) to Maya bay (the place where the “the beach” movie was shot), it was so pretty just like out of a beach\ jungle level in Sonic the hedgehog.

Then we went to Monkey beach, the monkeys are so funny and you get to hand feed them. I kick one by accident, silly monkey snuck up behind me

After the monkeys they showed us the Viking cave which as its name obviously hints at was inhabited by Viking at one stage in history.

Now onto Phi Phi island where we had a smorgasbord lunch and then we walk around for a bit through this little town on the island. It was kind of the like a little Noosa but without the hippy yuppie shops in the town.

Now for the bit I was worried about but ended up having a lot of fun at was snorkeling in a reef just off Loh Samah Island. Never snorkeled before but once I got used to it I found it great lots of colorful fish and I got so many good under water photos.

The final leg of the tour was free time at an island called Khal Nok, the island had super white sand and we feed fish bread.

All in all a great tour.

We got dropped back at the hotel late in the afternoon so we decided to have a little rest and freshen up before going back to the markets, little did I know Felicity was about to hatch a evil plan on me. We were walking around and Felicity decided to get one of these cheap facials they have over here so I walk into the store with her (ready to be bored) and then before I know it she says “I’ve paid for both of us” and I’m all of the sudden laying in a chair with a Thai woman rubbing my face. It was ok but now I have lost my Y chromosome and hope I can find him soon, I now know how Vegeta felt wearing that pink shirt.

Day 3 done!

Hope home is still great, tell Banjo I miss him

Alexander