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A well balanced trip

Since we wanted to be able to say we “Visited all of Phuket” we decided to do a full 4h tours around the island on our bike. (our butts are still mads at us..) But it was worth it. We ended up on an remote road by the sea that was just zigzagging throught the mountain (north-east of the island). Trees were so heavy and full, covering the sky over and around the road that it gave us the feeling of racing against a falling forest. Once we arrived by the sea, we got a beautiful view of the bay with lots fishing boat, like all of those picture of Asia that you see but never seem to find. The part we visited was less touristy, Yes there’s parts of Phuket that don’t have a lot of tourist! (Side note: The north east side of the island is more muslim, so if you wear a crop top like I did, you may feel a bit awkward and naked). Apart from that, the trip around the island was incredible and I made a new friend the giant teddy bear. (My real bear didn’t let me bring it home)

After so much biking, it was time to lay on the beach and do nothing for a while. So we went to Nai harn beach wich after our tour seem to be the most beautiful of them all. We spend hours there just reading and swimming. If you go swimming there be aware that you are going to have an incredible amount of sand in your swimsuit! There’s a lot of wave wich if really fun for swimming and surfing but at the end of the day I ended up with a full sandcastle with tower and rambarde, and that was just the swimsuit, my hair had is own planet of sand… I think my bikini still has sand in it from thailand. Okay, now i am done complaining about the sand, seriously we loved it so much that we decided to stay for longer and extended our stay at the hotel we where at. (It was cheap and had a pool… to rinse all that sand) (Here’s some tips to extend your stay in an hotel)

On the island of Phuket, there’s a big bouddha on the top of one of the mountains. It’s pretty impressive partly because of the location that gives you an amazing view of the island and sea, but also because of the boudha itself. He was made with thousland of tiny tile (45 meters hight of tiny tiles).

It’s also a free-charity visit (don’t get scam by people triying to sell you tiket… tiny warning you need to be covered to visit the bouddha since it’s a temple). The road to get there is worth the trip by itself, there a lot of point of view on the way giving you different angle to view the bay and the island.

On the island of Phuket one of the fun thing we did, was just to wonder around on our motorbike trying to find all of the view point. There’s a lot of them and they are all incredible in their own way. This island also hide a few beaches where you can find peace and quiet if you are brave enought to find them. (I am joking google tells you were they are)

One of my favorite was banana beach partly because Alexis had a banana top tank when we visited the beach and partly because you needed to go down a hill using ropes to get there. It give me the feeling of beeing Indiana Jones.

After almost 2 weeks in Phuket, we decided it was time to move on but where to go? That’s ofthen the problem we you travel for a long period of time, organising your itinary. After a lot of deliberation, we settled on Singapore. We were hesitant at first since Singapore is pretty expensive and our backpacker budget was hoping on the low prices of Asia. But Singapore also has a great reputation for food and for it’s elaborate garden. In the end, the bee wanted flowers and Oh my, flowers we got.