we woke to the sound of it bucketing outside. the hotel drove us for an hour to the train station Andrew and i figured out the train system and we manged to get to MBK a major shopping mall. Neither of us bought anything and it felt like we were going in circles. We walked a few minutes to Siam where there was more malls. we forked out alot of money and went to the huge indoor aquarium but it was worth it. we went on glass bottom boat over the sharks, stingrays ...

Our last day in Phuket.... very sad! After we managed to squash everything back into our suitcases and packs we went for a swim in the pool. After that Krystle went and got a manicure at the mall as didnt want to go to ones on the street where there is a mob of girls yelling "Massage for yoooou". AFter booking several attractions with the same thai lady at her stall. She booked us transfers with her son in his new car to the airport. Our flight to B...

Another early morning.today we went on a nature safari it started with a walk up to a waterfall which was a trickle compared to nz. We then learnt about the gibbon project and heard some sad facts like the only way to get a baby gibbon is to shoot the mother and we got to see some of the monkeys they had rescued. We got a short ride on the buffalo cart and a turn sitting on it's back.we really Enjoyed the canoeing it started in a fishing village then around the ...

We had an early start to the morning for our trip around the islands. Our first stop was Maya bay (the beach from the movie the beach)we went for a swim and a short walk. We wanted to stay longer as it was real nice, but had to get back on the boat.Our guide he liked to be called beyonce! (need I say anymore!) was pretty funny but couldn't understand his Thai-English.We stopped at monkey beach but the tide was up so wasn't a beach at all, everybody threw bananas ...

We decided to experience the Tuk Tuk today, everyone yells out Tuk Tuk wen you walk past so we decided to take them up on the offer. We spent a couple of hours driving around seeing the different sights and scenary. Our first stop was the monkey show it was real clever the monkey did all sorts of tricks. After the show we headed to the Cashew nut factory we tried heaps of different sorts of cashew nuts from, garlic to chocolate flavoured. we even tried cashew nut...