Almost forgot it was Saturday.
At 5am, we arrived at our home in Phuket, Bodega.
Too early for us to check in the room and hence we’ve heading to Patong
beach to catch the beautiful sunrise. We missed the sunrise though,
ended up killing time by building sandcastles on the beach, like a kid.
Met a cute American girl, Mikiuuu.
Lying
down on the couch near the window, feeling the hum of the town, read a book,
fell asleep, read the book, fell asleep. Resting was the only way to get us out
of our lazy state of mind after few days in Bangkok. Till the time when we
could go into our dormitory.
Our
day in Phuket finally brightened up when Cooper Yen, a solo traveler from
Taiwan joined our dorm, which was then followed by Claudia. Since then, a bond
named friendships was built between four of us and we’ve stuck to each other
for the next few days.
Yen is cool, with
almost similar educational background (Biochemistry) with us. He had a lot of
traveling experiences to share with. The best thing was we’ll never get lost
when walked together with him, a good travel partner indeed. On the other hand,
Claudia is a real laughter from Texas but worked in Korea as a teacher. But I
guess she would no longer in Korea at the time I write this blog post and most
probably is already busying preparing her new life in Brazil. I love her
optimistic nature; especially when the time our rented motorbike was broke
down, she was still holding a positive mind saying that everything happened for
a reason, we might not know if anything worse would happen if the bike did not
break down.
Our
itinerary in Phuket began on the next day to Phi Phi Island. Departure
from the pier at Chalong Bay to Phi Phi Ley Island and Maya Bay where
the movie “The Beach” was partially filmed. The beach was commercialized
and crowded with tourists. The tour continued hopped on to the next few
beaches and eventually arrived at Khai Nai Island to enjoy ourselves
like a swimmng, snorkeling and sunbathing. Personally felt that the
beach and water not really satisfied my expectation. But undoubtedly,
the view was the exact same on the most prevalent postcard of Phuket.
The
next morning, waking up with no plan, so we decided to rent 2
motorbikes to round the whole Phuket island. The journey was fun, let me
thought of the previous motorbike riding experiences in Pangkor island.
Claudia tried parasailing, we stopped at the same food market twice to
try local foods, sky was crying, we rode up the road which was quite
dangerous to Wat Chalong at night and the unfriendly guy at petrol
station. We ended our last night in Phuket, lying down on the same couch
near the window. My eye was closing.
The
last few hours before we left, there was a power cut at Bodega, the
place we stayed. We had no electricity since 5am something. To make the
matter worse, we had no water supply. So we just grabbed our toothbrush,
had a quick face washing at a 24-hours fast food restaurant nearby.
Leaving Phuket in this way kinda embarrassed. And of course, a scene
saying goodbye to Yen and Claudia. Both of them leaving Bodega early in
the morning to their own tour trip; Yen joined canoeing in James Bond
Island while Claudia went for elephant riding. Life is made of ever so
many partings welded together, isn’t it?
For
Cassey and I, finally, after 9 days trip in Thailand, “HOME” was where
our heart is. Both of us back to the right track started our first job
on the subsequent Monday after the trip. As what Claudia said, reality…
No
one realized how beautiful it was to travel until he came home and
rested his head on his old familiar pillow. I had been travelled here
and there for the past few months but I feel like I’m just at the
beginning of a big journey the life is.
The end of a trip always starts with another new one. Be ready anytime.
C'est la vie. This is life.
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