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January 21, 2006 Off to Thailand |
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I had been planning to take a trip to Thailand with my girlfriend Holly for a while. Thailand was close, cheap and one of the few destinations to which Holly could easily get a Visa. Chengdu very rarely has sun and it is particularly miserable in the winter when |
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Jan 22 One night in Bangkok |
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Day 2. Arrived in Bangkok at 1:00 A.M (1 hour time difference) but it took to past 2:30 to get out of the airport. As we got out of the airport the warm air hit us despite the late hour. Ah, blessed warmth! We had met a |
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Jan 23, Phuket Lady boy sighting |
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Day 3. Arrived in Phuket town 7:00 A.M. Met a nice Maltese couple and shared taxi to Patong Beach. Looked around five or six hotels/guesthouses but couldn't find a cheap one that the girls liked. Finally settled for Azzurro Village Hotel one block from the beach, decent |
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Jan 24 Go Karting |
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Day 4. Got up around 1:00, too late to check out. Went to get some lunch at a restaurant by the beach (410 baht) and an oil massage (300 baht ea) and we booked a couple of tours. Holly started her period so we couldn't do any water stuff. |
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Jan 25, Elephants, Monkeys and Kayaks |
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Day 5. Went on elephant tour. We did the waterfall/Gibbon Research facility (boring), then the 30 minute elephant track (Ho hum for me but fun for Holly who had never ridden an elephant before and the staff were good), rode the water buffalo cart (eh, at least Holly never |
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Jan 26, Of Lady Boys and cooking |
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Day 6. Holly had to get up early to go to her cooking class but I got a chance to sleep in a bit. I didn’t sleep too late though because I had this idea that I would make some special arrangements to propose to Holly. Phuket had a |
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Jan 27, Fantasea |
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Day 7 - We managed to sleep until 3:00 P.M. Guess we had run up quite a bit of sleep debt the last few days so we paid it all back at once. As it was so late we just went to the beach to hang out. Holly |
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Jan 28, White Water Rafting |
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Day 8- The minibus picked us up from the Nipa hotel at 7:45 and then went on to pick up a nice German couple at a nearby hotel before circling around the island to the Sheraton. The Sheraton people were not ready so we took the opportunity to check out |
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Jan 29, Poo around the Phuket |
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Day 9 - We couldn't go to Phi Phi until Feb 30 since the hotel on Phi Phi was full so we had a free day. We planned to get a car and explore the island a bit. We managed to get out of the hotel by 10:00 but |
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Jan 30 Off to Phi Phi |
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Day 10 - got up in time for the 7:30 pickup and after a bit of a drive we arrived at the boat dock where we were loaded onto the Paradise 2000, capable of carrying over 200 people. The boat was fairly full and had a Chinese tour group aboard. |
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Jan 31 Topless Swedes |
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Day 11 First order of the day was to find a new hotel so we got up by 9 and went down to the hotel restaurant by the pool for the included breakfast. Pretty decent selection with the usual eggs, bacon and wieners with a few other hot dishes and |
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Feb 1, On the Beach |
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Day 12 I didn’t really like the place we were staying at so while Holly slept in I hoofed it out and got us a room at the Viewpoint hotel. At 2,500 baht a night for an A/C sea view cabana it was a bit more expensive but the view, |
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Feb 2, The Proposal |
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Day 13 – Our last full day in Phi Phi and we started with the rather disappointing included breakfast. They had just eggs, bacon, waffles and toast but no fruit or other goodies but hey it was included and the waffles were pretty good. After breakfast we spent the |
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Feb 3, The long road back |
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Day 14 – slept in late but got up, had breakfast, packed and left the bag for the hotel to take to the dock by 11:00. Then we went for a last walk around doing a bit of shopping but didn’t find anything we wanted to buy. The boat |
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