Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Thailand / Phuket / 8.7.2013

Phi Phi Don!

WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT. My mom booked a chinese tour...and that was the source of all the problems haha. We were schlupped by bus at 6am to the dock, where it was PACKED full of chinese/korean/indian tourists who were all too cheap to get a better tour... We waited there for an hour (the bathroom smelled SO bad and the whole room smelled like it) until we were herded to the speedboat. We had a super flamboyant tour guide who kept on threatening to leave us behind if we didn't make it back to the boat on time (he actually did leave 5 people...lol) Going by speedboat was kinda fun at first because it was so fast and bumpy...but got old really fast when everyone got seasick...We went to Phi Phi don first--

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The island itself was SUPER pretty...but the thousands of tourists packed onto the beach took away from it a bit too much....

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THIS WAS WHEN A TON OF PEOPLE LEFT TOO...There were around 50-80 boats parked in the bay, and every 2 minutes, one would pull up to pick up or drop off tourists, and there would be a ton of yelling by the tour guide reminding people to not be late or to hurry up and get on the boat. We all kind of just stood awkwardly on the beach for 30 min because there just wasn't any space to do anything with all the tourists and boats coming in constantly...

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dat swimsuit lady

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Drove the boat past monkey island...saw this one monkey for 3 min, then left

Had a buffet lunch...that gave Olivia food poisoning...
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but we fed this cute cat!

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NOT AS MANY BOATS YAY

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We stopped somewhere to snorkel...but as everyone got their gear on...the guide was like JK THE WAVES ARE TOO BACK TAKE EVERYTHING OFF GET BACK IN THE BOAT OR ELSE I'LL LEAVE YOU

SO WE DIDN'T GET TO SEE FISH

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Then we went to an island to "relax"! We tried to snorkel...but there were no fish to see LOL

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selfie

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AT LEAST IT WAS PRETTY

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disappointed olivia

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Then we were herded home!

THEN WE SAW A LADY BOY BURLESQUE SHOW...Which was really good! AND A LOT MORE SEXUAL THAN MY PARENTS THOUGHT IT'D BE (otherwise I don't think they would have brought Olivia and Angela)...

We asked for their photo after, and it was $10 a piece! They still had really manly voices, which kind of freaked my dad out. My dad had originally wanted to touch their boobs to see what a fake one would feel like, but he was way too intimidated to ask LOL

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