We had an early start, well early for us anyway and were up at not long gone 6.30am after hitting the snooze button on the alarm a couple of times!
The reason for this early start was that we were getting picked up from the bungalow that we had for the night at 7.30am to head off on a boat and canoe tour of Phang Nga. The sun managed to come out through the clouds for us for the first time so far so we were definitely pleased about that! The boat we were on was typically thai with its noisy diesel engine and wooden construction, it was run by a very friendly thai crew of which there were about 25 of them!
On arriving at the first of the islands we got into our canoes and headed into a cave which was full of bats and had a rather unpleasant smell to it! There was light at the end of the cave which opened up to reveal that the island was in fact hollow and so had water in the middle! As we came out we soon realised that we were not alone and were surrounded by monkeys, two of them were even in the water fighting!
We headed back to the boat where lunch was waiting for us, a well presented assortment of thai dishes and a very western dish of spaghetti and tomato sauce thrown in for good measure!
Whilst we were eating the boat made its way to the famous James Bond island as made famous in the 'man with the golden gun', even film buff Jen was unsure which one this was and when we were told that Roger Moore had been the main man I soon realised it wasn't all that recent!
A long tail boat escorted us from our main boat to the island (a long tail boat can only really be described as a tuk tuk on water with its truck engine mounted like an outboard with a straight through exhaust pipe making lots of vibration and noise),
Once on the island we were harassed by many touts trying to sell us all kinds of rubbish from their stands all trying to cash in on the many tourists that go there daily.
The final destination on the tour was another small island where we had some time to swim and enjoy the sunshine.
Once back on the boat our crazy boat crew turned up the music and began to break dance for us, was quite funny to watch!
After saying our good byes we spent the night in Phuket town.
We should have been heading up to Kho Sok national park today but unfortunately towards the end of the boat trip i started to feel unwell and have had a bad stomach ever since along with the symptoms of a cold to go with it,we therefore decided to spent another day in Phuket town where we have done absolutely nothing to try to get better. Jen has been a great nurse to me and we should be good to head up and out of Phuket tomorrow for the national park at some point tomorrow.
All the best
Alex and Jen
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