phuket, thailand - january 2011

laurence, my very good friend, spent his christmas last december 2010 at london… thinking it would be very cold there, he planned to be somewhere hot when he comes back to bangkok… and so he asked me if i wanted to go with him to phuket. without a doubt i said yes..! he knows it's been my long dream to see and experience phuket... 

kata beach, right in front of club med

i flew to phuket from singapore early in the morning on the first day of the year... laurence booked our accomodation at clubmed. 

club med's pool and dining hall...

club méditerranée, commonly known as club med, is a french  corporation of vacation resorts found in many parts of the world, usually in exotic locations. (ref: wikipedia) 

laurence, looking like a don...

i arrived there first as lau travelled by bus from his another friend. while waiting for him, i found myself a spot at the bar, had something to eat and drink. when he arrived we had our late lunch. 

cheers..!

one thing i really liked on this trip was our experience of international cuisine. everything's just there that you don't know what you're going to have for a meal. it was my first time to choose not just a few but a lot of dishes for a meal. and you can eat everything as much as you want... 

beautiful sunset along kata beach

we strolled down the shore of kata beach in the afternoon until sunset. after dinner, we joined the party and had fun... 

top: it's a red carpet dinner
below: party, party, party..!

on our second day we went to phi phi island on a tour. we took the ferry tour, had we known that we can't be at the maya bay, we could have booked that tour by speedboat. 

on board the ferry to phi phi island

top: maya bay from afar
below: viking cave

maya bay is where the movie of leandro dicaprio, the beach, was shoot. and even from afar you'll see how nice the beach is... but we still enjoyed our self snorkelling. the water was just so clear, but we can't go far from the ferry as we're both scared. we're both not a good swimmer... 

phi phi island

we had our lunch at phi phi island. we enjoyed the scenery of the hot blazing sun along the seashore... 

and then, we went back to our respective origin on the third day...

if given another chance, i would love to go back there...! lau, thank you for dragging me along on that trip... and for these nice photos as well ;)