Day 3:
Around 5am we all woke up. Within 7am all of us got decked up for another eventful adventurous day in Phuket - today we going to the James Bond Island, Monkey Island and Floating Village. A cab picked us up from our hotel and 4 more tourist from two different hotels. By the time the clock was showing half past seven our cab was running down the main road leading us to the port. The road was clean, tidy, with quite less traffic. The day was sunny, humid and quite warm. But that couldn't dampen our spirit even a little bit.
The port has a long bridge... and bus is provided to carry you from the gate of the port till the pier.
We all boarded the steamer. This one was not so sleek and beautiful like the one we were provided for Phi Phi island.
Though the steamer was not that great as far as looks are concerned, but the fun and enjoyment of a journey mainly depend on the guide who is leading you to the destination and sharing information about the place which you are about to venture.
Our journey wouldn't have been so much fun if our Great Guide was not with us. He was really funny and quite helpful.See how attentively the guests are listening to him!
This little sweetie was one of the tourists traveling with us on that day... isn't she a real sweetheart... :-)
Anyway, we started our journey towards the James Bond Island. We left the calm ripple-less blush green water of the Pacific ocean behind us and headed towards the coral reef islands ahead of us. We were welcome with these Thai delicacies, on board. Also they provided us with some coke and other soft drinks
This is the welcome food, typical Thai sweets, served to us...
On our way towards the Monkey Island we saw many small and exotic coral reef islands, peeking with their tops above the blue water.
They say these were created when thousands of dead sea animals
About to enter the famous James Bond Island...
Can you recognize the location? The famous James Bond movie was shot here... :-)
my brother, indeed very happy :)
Floating Village... during Tsunami this whole village went under water... :-(
Floating School... with such clean and nice play ground... :-)
Small kid learning @ school :-)
Floating market @ floating village... indeed quite a wide variety of fashion jewelery...
Dried fish and other Thai specialties...
Floating juice vendor... amazing idea :-D
We had tender coconut here, and the vendor was trying to impress us by saying "Nariyal Paani, le lo", once he understood that we are from India... that was really LOL time for us... :-D
After a full day of sightseeing the tour planners took all of us to a nice beach, forgot the name though. There you can swim, or can hire a canoe to row on your own, provided you know how to do so. Even you can hire a jet-ski and have your share of fun! I simply was struggling to keep my head above the water... ;-)
All of us were dear tired after such fun filled day. When we reached the Phuket port, we were sent to our respective hotels to take rest. Had dinner at a nearby restaurant and came back to sleep like a dead person! Need to rejuvenate ourselves before the next days journey! :-)
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