Well,
at this time I had not much time to spent in internet cafes so only few travel entries.
We started trip from Phuket, where we took last minute flights. In there (on karon beach) I did Open water diver course in sunrise divers and it costed about 8800 bath. It's 1/3 what diving courses cost here in Finland. After that we chilled out one day before continuing to phi-phi island.
Phi-phi, was nice but spoiled with samsonite tourists. Im am only going to there for diving, but otherwise never! Good diving sites are those tho tiny small islands what you see on the map. I can't remember names again. Others are shitty (told by diving instructor). Apache bar was nice. Also hippie bar was quite packed.
From phi-phi we continued to krabi where we took night buss to Bangkok. That costed only 350baht from krabi. Boat phi-phi -> krabi was 200baht as boat from phuket to phi-phi. Night bus was ok, when there were to seats for each.... good for me, because I am so tall.
Bus went to Khao Sarn road, which was quite familiar place to me already :). There we took taxi to sukhumvit soi 12 to miami hotel. Price was at this time 650bath/nite. It was some student price and 150baht cheaper than at the last time. Well, but the location to top class nite clubs and to sky train was priority 1. At this time we spent time in clubs such as Ministry of sound, Q Bar and the Bed (new one). MOS was a bit dissapointment, because half of it was closed. We did quite much shopping in bkk. Prices were quite cheap compared to finnish prices in mobile phones, electronics, clothes etc. After 3 days we were quite ready to go back to islands. So we booked up sunday morning flight to krabi from Khao Sarn (2660baht, phuket airlines).
We were really tired on that morning (surprise). We took 160baht taxi from sukhumvit to airport. Flight took about 1+ hours and from airport 300baht taxi to center of krabi. Then again 250 baht ticket to ko lanta.
Ko lanta was really nice. It was not spoiled by samsonite people. Not so much rip-off and other crap like in other places or "wanna make you", "youuu, wanna girl" shit. It was orininal place and just something like I wanted. It seemed like Siem Riep in Cambodia. In there we stayed in Long Beach and A/C accommodation costed about 500 baht. Full Moon was on monday and some parties were organized in of the southern beaches... a bit same kind of feeling as in Ko Phang-nga, but still no :). After few days back to phuket through phi-phi, where we took some painting what we ordered earlier. Boat from phi-phi to phuket was Paradise Cruiser and it was really nice. There are HUGE differences if you took 250bath boat than 200 boat. 50 baht difference means free drinks and much better boats with huge sun decks. Phuket seems to huge rip-off-tourist-crap that I won't go there ever again :). But, one of the best dive sites (the similan islands) is near there, so let's not say never. Visibility in there is 40 meters, which is quite good.
Overall good holiday, but maybe a bit too tight schedule again.
-Jussi
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