We thought we might go to Karon beach today because Patong was so nutty so we packed our bags left them at reception and headed to the beach to meet Chris and Taryn the Cali couple we had met on the plane. We decide to just stay put in Patong that night and rent motor bikes to go around the island with them to see the sights so we checked back into the hotel, got a bike and took off.
We stopped in Phuket Town probably the only non touristy place on the island and hit up the night market which had a huge assortment of local food which we all sampled and then headed back towards the city where we found a great lookout point to watch the sunset. There was a small rocky path that went down the cliff onto a Peninsula so we decided to hike down it and went out onto the rocks to take a swim and cool off.
As the sun started setting hundred upon hundreds of Asians showed up transforming the tranquill scene into a crowded overlook but it was still a very nice sunseet with all of us sitting on the sea wall taking in the scene.
We headed back into Patong and went our for dinner chillin out with our new friends. They headed back to Kamala and we came back to the room cleaned up and I decided I wanted to go out but Chris stayed in. It was quite a night, I met some really cool guys from Iraq who live in Sweden and then some guys from Hanoi backpackers and we went to a little bar where the bartender was throwing bottles doing flare bar tending and lighting the bar on fire. It was quite a show and quite a night getting in around 4:30am only to have to get up at 7am for our boat trip to Phi Phi island.
We are planning to visit Phuket in mid-March.
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