Happy New Year! Yes it's 2012 or, every bit nosotros enjoin inwards Thailand, 2555. Both calendars are used here, amongst the Buddhist appointment existence used for a lot of official business. By the halt of 2012, I volition convey been inwards Thailand for xiii years, together with inwards Apr this weblog volition live half dozen years old. I am happy to enjoin that fifty-fifty afterward doing this Phuket weblog for thus long, at that topographic point were enough of novel experiences inwards 2011. I simply desire to repeat - this weblog is non the common tourist website talking most the golden sands, the swaying palms, the exotic seafood, the naughty nightlife ... the weblog is nevertheless rattling much personal together with based on things that I produce amongst the solid unit of measurement or alone. I rattling much enjoyed 2011, together with rather promise that Mayan forecasts are incorrect. I'd similar to relish all of 2012 every bit good together with enough to a greater extent than of the 21st century!
2011 started amongst January. We don't usually produce every bit good much inwards Jan - it's peak season, I am working a lot together with the kids are inwards school. I wrote a Top 10 Phuket Hotels page which volition necessitate updating soon. We tried a novel eating theatre called Peang Prai, nigh Bang Pae Waterfall, together with I also wrote most Kathu Waterfall which is only a few miles from our solid together with the fantabulous Phuket Mining Museum.
Feb is to a greater extent than or less other busy calendar month for Phuket, together with the kids are nevertheless at schoolhouse - days out are limited, no holidays ... but the schoolhouse arranged a exceptional trip to Phuket Fantasea which nosotros rattling much enjoyed. Sure its the biggest tourist attraction inwards Phuket, together with I had been avoiding it for that reason. Now converted - it's genuinely rattling good! The corking conditions inwards Feb was practiced for views. I got to a greater extent than or less prissy photos at the Karon Viewpoint together with nosotros had a prissy solid unit of measurement walk upwardly Monkey Hill inwards Phuket Town.
I realised inwards March that I should write something most my actual full-time job, every bit managing director of a dive center! So hither it is : Diving Phuket amongst Sunrise Divers! It was a calendar month for putting to a greater extent than or less gild into the weblog too, thus I wrote iii pages most hotels - Kata Beach Hotels, Karon Beach Hotels together with Patong Beach Hotels. Was a calendar month of move together with non much else. Kids finished schoolhouse inwards mid March together with they went amongst my married adult woman to remain amongst her solid unit of measurement inwards Chumphon.
In April, to a greater extent than or less other first! Well, I had been to Phromthep Cape enough of times but somehow had never hiked downward the path to the rattling halt of Phuket. Now done - Phromthep Cape - The End of Phuket!
My beloved married adult woman came dorsum from Chumphon together with nosotros changed plans a bit. I had ever been inwards Phuket for the Songkran festival, but inwards 2011 nosotros drove from Phuket to Chumphon on the black of twelfth April, arriving afterward midnight, get for the celebrations on the 13th! It was rattling prissy to percentage Songkran amongst the solid unit of measurement - run across hither : Songkran 2011 inwards Chumphon. We all came dorsum to Phuket together with had ane of the best solid unit of measurement days out of the year, taking a ferry over to Koh Yao Noi isle together with hiring a yoke of scooters. Will produce it ane time again sometime for sure.
(above) Songkran inwards Chumphon
(above) Koh Yao Noi past times Moped!
In early on May nosotros had a long weekend away to Khao Sok National Park, together with on the manner dorsum nosotros "discovered" Sri Phang Nga National Park, forests together with waterfalls, to a greater extent than or less other house which is at ane time on our "Go Back To" list!
Food together with drinkable inwards May ... I live blogged the After Beach Bar which is similar a Phuket legend, built on the hillside simply due south of Kata beach, corking seaviews, corking sunsets, guaranteed Bob Marley sounds... Also "reblogged" a eating theatre called Bang Pae Seafood, which is on the Northeast coast of Phuket a 1000000 miles from the principal tourist beaches. It was ane of the starting fourth dimension restaurants I had blogged inwards 2006 together with needed an update, every bit produce quite a few of the older posts on the Phuket weblog...
(above) The After Beach Bar
We accomplish June, halfway through 2011 .. together with at this betoken I realise that the "Best of 2011" volition necessitate two parts! In June I wrote a weblog page most my wife's domicile town, Chumphon, where nosotros had celebrated Songkran. Might live our domicile ane twenty-four hr menstruum too! Back inwards Phuket ... June is depression flavor together with there's to a greater extent than fourth dimension to relax. We enjoyed a Walk inwards Old Phuket Town (actually I relish walking at that topographic point whatever time!), together with I flora fourth dimension to genuinely halt at the Heroines Monument which is seen past times most visitors to Phuket - I had never genuinely stopped at that topographic point before.
(above) Thalang Road - erstwhile buildings amongst novel cars
(above) The Heroines of Phuket - the statue is inwards the middle of a traffic circle on the principal route due south from the airport.
And then.. also inwards June, to a greater extent than or less to a greater extent than fun for the kids! We had a twenty-four hr menstruum out to the Splash Jungle Waterpark located N of the airport. Kids loved it (so did Mum together with Dad actually) together with despite the high cost I justice we'll become ane time again sometime. Some days nosotros produce things "for dad" or "for the blog", together with to a greater extent than or less days it's for the kids, together with sometimes they match!
(above) The Super Bowl at Splash Jungle Waterpark
Continued at ..... Best of the Phuket Blog 2011 Part II (July - December) Sumber http://jamie-monk.blogspot.com
2011 started amongst January. We don't usually produce every bit good much inwards Jan - it's peak season, I am working a lot together with the kids are inwards school. I wrote a Top 10 Phuket Hotels page which volition necessitate updating soon. We tried a novel eating theatre called Peang Prai, nigh Bang Pae Waterfall, together with I also wrote most Kathu Waterfall which is only a few miles from our solid together with the fantabulous Phuket Mining Museum.
Feb is to a greater extent than or less other busy calendar month for Phuket, together with the kids are nevertheless at schoolhouse - days out are limited, no holidays ... but the schoolhouse arranged a exceptional trip to Phuket Fantasea which nosotros rattling much enjoyed. Sure its the biggest tourist attraction inwards Phuket, together with I had been avoiding it for that reason. Now converted - it's genuinely rattling good! The corking conditions inwards Feb was practiced for views. I got to a greater extent than or less prissy photos at the Karon Viewpoint together with nosotros had a prissy solid unit of measurement walk upwardly Monkey Hill inwards Phuket Town.
I realised inwards March that I should write something most my actual full-time job, every bit managing director of a dive center! So hither it is : Diving Phuket amongst Sunrise Divers! It was a calendar month for putting to a greater extent than or less gild into the weblog too, thus I wrote iii pages most hotels - Kata Beach Hotels, Karon Beach Hotels together with Patong Beach Hotels. Was a calendar month of move together with non much else. Kids finished schoolhouse inwards mid March together with they went amongst my married adult woman to remain amongst her solid unit of measurement inwards Chumphon.
In April, to a greater extent than or less other first! Well, I had been to Phromthep Cape enough of times but somehow had never hiked downward the path to the rattling halt of Phuket. Now done - Phromthep Cape - The End of Phuket!
My beloved married adult woman came dorsum from Chumphon together with nosotros changed plans a bit. I had ever been inwards Phuket for the Songkran festival, but inwards 2011 nosotros drove from Phuket to Chumphon on the black of twelfth April, arriving afterward midnight, get for the celebrations on the 13th! It was rattling prissy to percentage Songkran amongst the solid unit of measurement - run across hither : Songkran 2011 inwards Chumphon. We all came dorsum to Phuket together with had ane of the best solid unit of measurement days out of the year, taking a ferry over to Koh Yao Noi isle together with hiring a yoke of scooters. Will produce it ane time again sometime for sure.
(above) Songkran inwards Chumphon
(above) Koh Yao Noi past times Moped!
In early on May nosotros had a long weekend away to Khao Sok National Park, together with on the manner dorsum nosotros "discovered" Sri Phang Nga National Park, forests together with waterfalls, to a greater extent than or less other house which is at ane time on our "Go Back To" list!
Food together with drinkable inwards May ... I live blogged the After Beach Bar which is similar a Phuket legend, built on the hillside simply due south of Kata beach, corking seaviews, corking sunsets, guaranteed Bob Marley sounds... Also "reblogged" a eating theatre called Bang Pae Seafood, which is on the Northeast coast of Phuket a 1000000 miles from the principal tourist beaches. It was ane of the starting fourth dimension restaurants I had blogged inwards 2006 together with needed an update, every bit produce quite a few of the older posts on the Phuket weblog...
(above) The After Beach Bar
We accomplish June, halfway through 2011 .. together with at this betoken I realise that the "Best of 2011" volition necessitate two parts! In June I wrote a weblog page most my wife's domicile town, Chumphon, where nosotros had celebrated Songkran. Might live our domicile ane twenty-four hr menstruum too! Back inwards Phuket ... June is depression flavor together with there's to a greater extent than fourth dimension to relax. We enjoyed a Walk inwards Old Phuket Town (actually I relish walking at that topographic point whatever time!), together with I flora fourth dimension to genuinely halt at the Heroines Monument which is seen past times most visitors to Phuket - I had never genuinely stopped at that topographic point before.
(above) Thalang Road - erstwhile buildings amongst novel cars
(above) The Heroines of Phuket - the statue is inwards the middle of a traffic circle on the principal route due south from the airport.
And then.. also inwards June, to a greater extent than or less to a greater extent than fun for the kids! We had a twenty-four hr menstruum out to the Splash Jungle Waterpark located N of the airport. Kids loved it (so did Mum together with Dad actually) together with despite the high cost I justice we'll become ane time again sometime. Some days nosotros produce things "for dad" or "for the blog", together with to a greater extent than or less days it's for the kids, together with sometimes they match!
(above) The Super Bowl at Splash Jungle Waterpark
Continued at ..... Best of the Phuket Blog 2011 Part II (July - December) Sumber http://jamie-monk.blogspot.com