Thailand - Phuket & Ko Phi Phi

Phuket:

After a long, bleak, tearful month apart, Bill and I reunited in the island of Phuket. Yay! Bill almost immediately started complaining about how much space my stuff was taking up in the small hotel room. The past month is not looking so bleak after all.

Phuket has miles of beautiful beaches. But they are filled with unsightly topless sunbathers. Public Announcement - please, no topless sunbathing in Asia, and absolutely no topless sunbathing anywhere once gravity has started taking its toll.

Another unsightly aspect of Phuket is its 'go go bars' and seemingly temporary financial couplings seen at breakfast tables (Mosaiced to protect identity):

Waiting for my grilled octopus at the night market:

Ko Phi Phi:

We left Phuket and took a boat to Ko Phi Phi, very popular with backpackers. Despite my aversion of beach huts (see Tulum, Mexico post), it seems to be the popular type of backpacker lodging in Thailand. This is our beach hut:

The drunk British boys in the next beach hut left their boom box on and locked the door when they went out for the night. So we had to listen to Justin Timberlake into the wee hours of the morning as we silently chanted 'die, batteries, die!'

Ah, the joy of backpacking (yes, I am struggling to get back into 'backpacker' mode):