Today was a day with lots of travel. We woke up early to catch the 8 AM bus from Pai to Chiang Mai (3.5 hours), then got to the airport for our flight to Phuket (a couple hours in the air). Our original plan was to get out of Phuket as quickly as possible and head to a less busy beach area, but on the flight down we read about a sea kayak tour to a bio-luminescent area that piqued our curiosity, and we called and are doing it tomorrow.
The following day, we plan to head to Ko Lanta by ferry. It’s supposed to be very chill and, like every area here, have nice beaches. I think we keep telling ourselves that we’ll do a day where we just don’t do anything, but we keep finding interesting things to go do. We’ll see how we adjust to lounging on the beach.
We caught the cheap bus from the airport to our hotel, and realized it was cheap because halfway into town they stop at their travel agency and try to sell you hotels if you don’t have them, and tours if you seem interested. They weren’t pushy, so it wasn’t too annoying. We got to our hotel and it started to pour. It’s the first rain we’ve seen all trip, but as with most tropical showers, it quickly passed. They’re filming a Korean movie on the roof of our hotel, so that’s interesting. Not sure what it’s called, but maybe we’ll watch it one day if we find out.