Phuket Trip Day 2

    Day 2 started off by transfer to the jetty where we will head to the 4 islands: PhangNga, Hong, Jamesbond. The taxi driver was pretty punctual. Indeed, he was looking for us at 750 whilst the pickup time was 8am. We handed him the voucher and stopped by some hotels to pick up more passengers.

  

Boarding the boat at the jetty. The journey to the jetty from Patong was roughly 50 minutes.

The boat was comfortable and had continuous supply of water

    The package today was about canoeing and swimming. So for those who fancy canoeing, you can actually try your hand to canoe on the sea. We went to PhangNga Island which was wonderful. 

    We had to lie flat on the canoe as we manoeuvred our way into another 'world'. It is just an ordinary island from the outside but there happens to be a secret passage through it. As the paddler paddled us through the limestone cave, it was dark and creepy. Occasionally we had to lie flat to prevent our faces from being injured by the ceiling of the cafe. Just imagine how near the ceiling was to our bodies! Too bad we did not bring our cameras along.

    Buffet dinner was served on the boat. It was quite nice actually.

    The weather was wonderful for the whole day. There was no strong sunshine. It was raining at 5am in the morning and remained cloudy for almost the whole day since we left our hotel.

     We proceeded to James Bond Island after lunch. Since 1974, when it was featured in the James Bond movie 'The Man with the Golden Gun', it is popularly called James Bond Island.

The island has been turned into a commercialised island with many shops selling almost the same stuff. Personally did not like it being so packed with shops and boats.

  

The James Bond Island

This rock was supposedly connected to the island but was somehow separated from the main island.

Had the chance to kayak while the rest were swimming in the middle of the sea.

    Headed back and arrived at the hotel pretty early. 430pm. After some rest and shower we decided to head to the Banzaan Market area in which the night market was located.

A must try banana pancake. This one was found in the banzaan night market. Please look out for the stall with nutella =)

Banana pancake

Sunny side up quill eggs. 20 baht. Must try too!

    It was a pretty tiring day so we headed back to the hotel around 9pm. Good first day at Phuket and Patong =)