No In Surance!

We arrived in Phuket today after 3 nights at 'Sanctuary' Guesthouse in Ko Lanta. Ko Lanta was super relaxed. We had a cool day on a schnorkelling trip to Koh Rok and then on our last day we hired a scooter and did a lap of the island. It was super fun burning around, avoiding goats and the mad tuk tuks. I don't think I'll ever be as relaxed as some of the women though who ride side saddle and don't hold on to anything and drink banana shakes at 70 kph.

Phuket town is bigger and dirtier and a bit mental. But then we ventured out to Patong Beach. That blew us away. Patong is like being hit in the face with the wet thong ripped from a euro-trash woman's leathery derriere! I saw real life walking human leather. It looked at me and was digusted by my pale skin. It turned it's head in disgust at my sensible t-shirt covering me from the roasting sun, stretched out on it's sun lounger and closed it's eyes. Ew.

There were jet skis going up and down the beach and the Thai guys who ran the operation were driving them onto the shore as fast as they dared- which is really fast. One guy flew right off the back when he hit the sand. The main difference between the different operations was the "No In Surance!" signs painted on the jet skis. Why that was a good thing, we couldn't work out. Cheaper, maybe?

We are staying in On On guesthouse- which is where they filmed scenes from 'The Beach'. It ain't too bad- it looked worse in the movie. Tomorrow we are getting up at 5.30am to head to the Similan Islands to go diving- it's one of the top ten dive sites in the world. It will be our last ocean/beachy time for awhile. We head to Bangkok on Friday. We are prepared this time!