Patong & Going Back North..

After leaving early from Ko Phi Phi we went to get out boat to Patong. The boat took about two hours and it was by far the WORST boat trip yet! The sea sickness was unbelievable! We kept telling each other to look at the horizon and don't thronk it! Haha. Anyway we finally made it to Phuket and jumped in a mini bus to Patong which was supposed to be the lively part of Phuket. Patong didn't let us down....it was lively and also....super seedy! There was prostitutes and pole dancers everywhere! We had heard of places like this in Thailand but hadn't came across one yet. We found a nice family run hotel not far from the main strip and found ourselves to be next door to a huge superstore called Jung Ceylon. We basically lived out of this place for the next few days as we couldn't find any street food anywhere! We visited the beach which was pretty nice and basically chilled out for the rest of the day.

The next day we had breakfast in the superstore and had a wander round the town to look at the local shops and attractions which were few and far between to be honest!. Patong was basically a stop off point for people heading to Phi Phi and didn't have much in the way of culture or entertainment! We watched a water show in the centre of the shopping mall were we got absolutely drenched! We had the best Tom Kha curry yet off the Thai chefs in the shopping centre which is basically coconut milk and other tasty ingredients! Gem had herself a facial for 6 pound which lasted about an hour and according to her it would of cost alot more if she'd had it done in Liverpool. That night we met up with a couple we had a night out with on the full moon party in Ko Phangan. We went out for a few beers and ended up stumbling home at around five in the morning not remembering a thing!

The next day we got on our way to Kanchanaburi which is West of Bangkok. We booked our bus and psyched ourselves up for the hellish journey that would take around seventeen hours....First of all we bargained with the local tuk-tuk drivers to take us to the bus station which took around half an hour to get to. We then booked ourselves on the next bus to Bangkok (2nd class obviously which we didnt have a clue what it was but it was the budget option!). The bus took a horrible 13 hours to get to the south bus station in Bangkok, Gem didnt get a wink of sleep but i managed to grab a few hours ;-).  At the bus station we had breakfast (around 9.00 am) which was KFC :-). We then got the ten o'clock bus to Kanchanaburi train station which took another 3 hours but was fairly good through having the back seats to ourselves and the mini bus being air conditioned. After getting to Kanchanaburi station we jumped a Tuk-tuk with the friendliest guy we have ever seen! Exactly what we expected and what had been lacked on the islands and south of Thailand :-(. The guy charged us 50p each and we got to our hotel finally safe and sound!!