The night had been a bit unsettled as mostly due to loud people returning in the evening and walking past our beds, the air conditioning did make a nice change though. The shower in the morning was warm, which felt so weird we even turned it down to cold haha!! We decided to head south to Kata beach today and strolled through the town and onto the beach. The first impressions were not good, sun loungers packed in everywhere and the whole shore line turned up th...

We awoke relatively afresh after the satisfactory rugby win over Ireland last night. This morning we would head to the west coast of Phuket, a small town called Karon which was situated just south of Patong. We packed up our gear and enjoyed some toast and said goodbye to ghetto childs hostel and Kai for now at least. We caught the local town bus and waited for our departure about 10 minutes later. The bus weaves through the town and negotiated various hills pick...