SE ASIA - DAY 55 - PHUKET - Free and Easy
I have lost count of how many different hotels I have stayed throughout this trip.
Every morning when my mind wake up with eyes still closed, I would have assumed myself in the safeness and comfort of my own bedroom at home. Then I will start to recall that I am still in the middle of the trip and a foreign place, then I will open my eyes immediately and check around where I am and if all my belongings are there.
Of course it is, if someone would to consider stealing from room, they will never choose stealing my side pannier box, most of my belongings are locked there before I sleep and it's is bulky and heavy. 😋 Lugging a 20kg pannier box out of the hotel is hard to evade attention.
Had my breakfast, watched "Saving Private Ryan" from the TV and it is already 11am, time to check-out and move to the hotel 50 meters away.
This is the hotel I will be staying for the next 6 nights. Well, the name does sound inappropriate if you tell the taxi/tuk-tuk driver, "Please go to sleep with me hotel" . The driver will definitely escort you all the way to your hotel room if you are an attractive lady. Ok, I 'm a guy, I am safe staying here.
How I wish my pannier box has wheels, but luckily, this bell boy offered to push my both of my pannier boxes from the bike to the hotel room.
The slogan on top of the bed sounds like something that will get you really really fat in a short period of time.
It's a small room, and guess what, the room price(SGD98) have inflated to almost twice the amount(SGD180) since I have booked 1 week ago, luckily I have booked earlier, else I would have settled with something worse. Phuket is really a hot tourist destination during the Winter months in the northern hemisphere.
There is a great balcony with strong sun for the laundry, minus points for the hanger that I have to utilize the comms-cord string to tie it to the balcony. I think you would have guessed what is in the censored box.
Went out to look for lunch, and there is this shop with live grouper fish. A 450g fish cost 450THB. Time for a change from the dead Seabass though they taste good too. Had it cooked steamed with soy sauce, very nice.
The fish must have felt happy that it's death is well worth, no part of the meat were wasted. The scales were not very well cleared off the scales so I left it alone, of course, I ate the cheek.
Now that my bike is stripped off the panniers, I rode it to the Kata viewpoint some 13km away, which is estimated to take about 30mins. Although it is near, it passes through the Kata beach and the traffic is awfully slow. Nevertheless, it was an enjoyable ride, I feel so agile again riding without the pannier boxes.
Wished that I can fly my drone here but there are just too much crowd, drones are illegal in Thailand unless you obtain a licence, which is a painfully and troublesome process.
You can take picture with two big eagles there too, of course, at a cost. Their claws have been trimmed so much up to the point whereby it is harmless for them to perch on your arm. Poor eagles.
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