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Phuket: The Arrival

Recently I have traveled to Phuket, Thailand. Although this is not my first city I have traveled in Thailand (earlier 2 years back traveled to Krabi) but this been a very special experience. I will share my experience on my complete trip. Phuket is one of the southern provinces of Thailand. It consists of the island of Phuket, the country’s largest island, and another 32 smaller islands off its coast. It lies off the west coast of Thailand in the Andaman Sea. The next nearest province is Krabi, to the east across Phang Nga Bay. Phuket is among the world’s finest beach destinations, with fine white sands, nodding palm trees, glittering seas and lively towns. Without wasting time on description of Phuket let’s start our journey.
The trip to Phuket was just a sudden decision of me and my wife while we were looking for something in budget(moreover for Indians Thai authority have declared to be Visa free for 2 months which helped us to finalize Thailand). As first step we gathered information on Phuket which helped us to decide where to stay. Then we booked our flight and hotel complete package from airasiago(http://www.airasiago.com/)  which resulting us in saving few bucks as it is cheaper to book like this with a great variety of Hotel options. As I have already traveled to Krabi, Thailand earlier so know a lot about Thailand beaches. This help us to prepare for our luggage packing. Our flight was of early morning so a day before we slept early and left for airport the next day to board flight at 6:45am.
We reached Phuket airport on time at local time. We directly went to immigration for Visa stamping. With immigration crossed we took taxi and went to our hotel in Patong. As it was still morning and hotel check in time was later we decided to drop our luggage and start our Phuket exploration.
The best way to explore Phuket city is on motor bike, therefore we also headed to nearby Bike Rental shop and rented a Honda Click 125cc new bike. This is automatic transmission bike so very easy to drive and enough powerful to go any place in Phuket. We started our Phuket Day-1 from Patong.

Phuket Day-1: Kalim Beach- Surin Beach- Kathu waterfall and Fantasea in evening

The day was shinny and was quite hot and humid so we had our sun’s cream applied, took our Sun Glasses and drive our way to explore Phuket. The roads n Phuket are good but have to be very careful as there are sometime very sharp turns and many ups and down where speed control is very necessary.  We first went to Kalim Beach which was near to us. We spent some time on the sea shore. Had our lunch near the beach in sea side restaurant and then moved forward to our next destination Surin Beach. Both Kalim and Surin beach are very beautiful. The tortoise color water and natural beauty will definitely attract you.  On our way to Kalim to Surin we booked the same day ticket to Fantasea 9pm event also.  For Fantasea the pickup from our hotel was from 5pm as the ticket we brought is the combination of pick and drop by shuttle, buffet dinner and the entry to the show at the Elephant Palace.
It was already 2pm when we reached Surin Beach so we decided to skip Kathu waterfall and head back to our hotel to take rest and get ready on time for Fantasea. For online booking can use Fantasea online link. (http://www.phuket-fantasea.com/eng/reservation/welcome.php).
Sharp at 5:00pm the shuttle came to pick us from our hotel. We were the first pickup so we took the first seat of the shuttle. With 3 more pickups the shuttle was full and we reached the magical land of Fantasea by 5:45pm. We rushed to the ticking counter to convert our voucher to tickets and after some photos outside the entrance gate we entered the theme parked. There is entry through the elaborate front gates into the Festival Village, a shopping street lined with ornate buildings representing different styles of Thai architecture. The Fantasea was very beautifully build and decorated. It was showing the rich style of Thailand with modern amusement too. After taking some photos of all the shops and attractions we moved to main dining area known as “The Golden Kinnaree”.  In this dining hall our buffet dinner was to be served.
The dinner was normal to good with a large variety of dishes. They were even having Vegetarian and Halal options too. Only the drinks were charged extra else you can eat whatever you find including spegaties and fried chicken. After dinner we saw a show in open theatre which was for wishing for Christmas and New Year. The main attraction was at The Elephant Palace and the show sitting started at 8:30. Our mobiles were submitted before the show. The show was very awesome with the use of elephants, tiger and other animals with acrobatic show. It was not to forget thing. 
Around 10:20pm we got our shuttle back to hotel with memory of the Fantasea and the stuff toy we brought from there as a reminder. With our reaching hotel our first day of arrival in Phuket ended and we took a good sleep to get energize for next day tour.
Continue Phuket explorer in next blog post

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