20080510 - Phi Phi & Khai Island

Today we did woke up earlier and prepare ourselves early in the lobby. We have packed our luggage since tonight we'll be going to be overnight at Sevenseas Hotel which located around 200 meters away from Patong Lodge. We just put our luggages at the lobby and the bell boy seems different from the previous one. More friendly although he didn't know English much. We have problem speaking to him. When the driver came to pick us up, he asked whether we want towel or not. We're a bit surprised. Towel? It's provided? How come we didn't know yesterday? Now only, we recalled that the participants of the cruise yesterday all took the hotel towels along.

No more escoat boat. No more funny crew around the boat. Today we took speed boat to Phi Phi Island and Khai Island. The sky was clear when the speed boat started but then the wave was too rough. Then I started to heard vomit sounds. Suddenly the lady in front of me, vomit without any notice. Due to the strong wind, her vomit just flew backward toward my direction. Yiak, what's this..... tomatoes over my leg...... Jac do you have tissues? Got tomatoes over my leg :(

Due to the strong wave, the leader don't allow us to snorkel around Maya Bay (famous because of "The Beach" was filmed there). The sand seems white and soft as well as the greenish crystal clear sea water.
"The cliffs are the reason we chose Phi Phi Le because in the story, the beach that the characters are living on is surrounded by the high sea cliffs from the sea. So, it's a secret. It's like a big secret, swimming pool and beach in private and this is the attraction for the characters. That's why we have to use Phi Phi Le." - Andrew Macdonald, producer of "The Beach"


Besides Maya Bay, we passed by the Viking Cave. The Viking Cave on Phi Phi Ley is a cave right at sea level filled with bird's nests. Painted on the wall are the ancient color paintings resembling the Viking boats hence the name of Viking Cave.




When we first passed by the Monkey Island we hardly see any monkey there. After snorkeling, we passed by the Monkey Island again and saw alot of tourists feeding the monkey. The captain stop the speed boat there and let us feed the monkey with banana. He warned us not to fool around with the monkey as they will bites. The sand was really soft and nice.




We stopped at Phi Phi Don for our lunch. We're so tired that we can't move ourselves anywhere. Just sit there viewing the nice scenery of Phi Phi Don.

Now it's time to leave for Khai Island. On our way to Khai Island. It start to rain heavily. Since the boat was small, we're just like eaten up by the wave. The storm was really big and it's so hard for the speed boat to move forward. The captain stopped us at one of the island where we just found shelter under this roof.

We waited on the island for more than 1 hour and finally the rain became smaller. We just didn't make it for Khai Island. What a disappointment. The wave was still very rough. It was just like roller coaster, up and down. We just covered ourselves with the towel we borrow from the hotel this morning. It's just like movie. Celine was so afraid that she just got hold of anything she could get and eventually found that it was one of the crew leg. Jac who sat besides her kept on laughing none stopped. I was not feeling comfortable with the "roller coaster" and trying hard to get myself fall asleep. (My advice don't ever visit Phuket during low season especially raining season)


Today we decided to have seafood for our dinner. We simply pop into this seafood restaurant - 99 restaurant. We have a very heavy and nice dinner there. Tom yum gung, pathai, pineapple friend rice, mango salad and steam fish. And just cost less than 1000 baht. According to my sis, the oyster is worth eating (30 baht per each and very fresh and big). Besides that, you can actually negotiate the price there.


It's time for Simon Cabaret. This is the first time we bought VIP seat and it's at the first row. Wah, feel so special today... Hehe...... One of the girl was really beautiful. If you want to take picture with them, remember to pay 40 baht per pic.

Today we spend our night at Sevenseas Hotel. A brand new hotel which start operation last year. It's a clean, tidy, budget hotel. The room was pretty big accompany with balcony.

Sevenseas Hotel Contact:
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Tel : +66 076 342193, +66 076 340492
Email : info@phuketsevenseas.com
Website : http://phuketsevenseahouse.com/