February 7-8, 2013 - Koh Phi Phi and Phuket

Feb. 7-8, 2013 - Koh Phi Phi and Phuket, Thailand

We arrived to the island of Koh Phi Phi, pronounced pee pee (hehe), around 10am.  We hadn't booked a place to stay before hand so we wandered through town asking around for a room for the night.  After about 5 No's we decided to pay a little more than we wanted to for a private room. It was 1500 Baht.  Not horrible for a private room, private bathroom, hot water, towels, and a 5 minute walk to the beach.  We set our stuff down, put our swimsuits on and headed to the beach.  This beach was spectacular.  I have some of Alene's photos below to try and give you an idea of the place.  We rented beach chairs for $5 for the entire day and just layed on the beach the whole day.  We saw the tide go out and come back in.  It was an amazing lazy day on the beach.  We only left for lunch, but we came back immediately after and sat back in our chairs.

Our Ferry

Our view from our beach chairs.

 

That night we went out for drinks and ended up bar hopping.  Everywhere on the street people were selling mini buckets of your choice of alcohol and mixer.  We opted not to drink the bucket but thought it was a great idea.  Later that night one of the bars had beer pong and, of course, we played and, of course, we lost.  But we got to meet a lot of people.

The next morning we woke and headed to the dock.  We didn't have a ferry ticket yet but were hoping we could get a spot on the next ferry to Phuket.  We did!  After about 1 or so we arrived on the island of Phuket and took mini van to our part of the island and to our hostel for the night.

We pretty much did the exact same thing we did in Phi Phi.  Checked in, put our stuff in the room, and headed to the beach where we rented chairs and spent the rest of the day.  Another beautiful place except people where EVERYWHERE.  Every beach chair was full and vendors where trolling the beach selling anything you could think.  We planned on a tame evening because we were going to have to catch the 7am shuttle to the airport.  That plan didn't exactly work out.  We met some guys staying in our hostel and they talked us into exploring the night life with them (it didn't really take too much convincing).  So we spent the night on the main strip and enjoyed the Phuket night life.  It ended up a crazy night.  We saw a bunch of stuff you wouldn't see in the States.  Interesting is all I have to say.  After it was all said and done we got about 3 hours of sleep before having to catch the shuttle.  A night for the record books for sure. :-)