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Thailand Island Hopping
8 Hours Island Tour It was our fifth day in Phuket we went for Island tour. We booked Seastar Tours that we found from one of their third party agents that was offered by one of our Grab Driver. There are so many options of packages according to prices where to sail in this Island tour. See below map for a guide. We were picked up at earliest 7:30 in the morning from our hotel in a van type vehicle together with other tourist. They dropped us at Royal Marina Phuket which is very beautiful all the way from the entrance of it. They offered snacks and light breakfast to…
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Big Buddha Phuket
White Buddha It was our first day of tour around the beautiful island of Phuket. We chose to go first in Big Buddha as we read online that it is always busy for tourists and luckily not that many people when we came. The Big Buddha Statue is huge and white, underneath of it is a temple for worshipers to pray. When visiting temples you have to pay respect and wear appropriate clothes not to show excessive skin. It is a holy place for buddhist worshiper and luckily it’s open for all. We had a chance to write our names and well wishers in the heart shaped gold love lockets…
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Karon Beach View Point
Stunning Beach View This tourists spot is one of the places we visited during our 1 day tour around Phuket after visiting the Big Buddha. The driver that we rented that day recommended this place as we are looking for the nice overlooking view of the beach. We flew the mavic pro drone in this area to get some very good footage for our vlog and the view is superb. Below is the link in my youtube channel where you can see in my intro some of the videos we got. There are some other tourists there as well but not very crowded as they come and go quickly, this…
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Wat Chalong Temple
Buddhist Temple in Chalong The most important of the 29 buddhist temples of Phuket is Wat Chalong (Thai: วัดฉลอง) or formally Wat Chaiyathararam (Thai: วัดไชยธาราราม), located in the Chalong Subdistrict, Mueang Phuket District. It is dedicated to two highly venerable monks, Luang Pho Chaem (หลวงพ่อแช่ม) and Luang Pho Chuang (หลวงพ่อช่วง), who led the citizens of Chalong Subdistrict fighting against the Chinese rebellion in 1876 and with their knowledge of herbal medicine helped the injured. (Source: Wikipedia) More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Chalong The temple is very colourful inside and out. We have seen Gold Buddhas in different structures. There is one unique building like a house we entered and there was life size monks statue probably the founders as you could read above text from Wikipedia. A lot of…
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Thalang Road Famous Portuguese Built Buildings
Phuket Old Town A historical town forming part of Phuket City. The main street of Old Phuket Town is Thalang Road and other roads are Phang Nga, Krabi, Dibuk, and Yoawarat. Old Phuket Town is noted for Sino-Portuguese buildings on both sides of the street. Many old buildings have been converted into shops, hotels, restaurants and museums. (Source Wikipedia) [envira-gallery id=”947″]
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My 32nd Birthday Portraits
Special Thanks to my loving ever supportive husband Esben Bach for taking patiently these lovely photos. Location: Villa Zollitude, Phuket Thailand – http://www.villazolitude.com/ Camera : Sony Alpha 7 Mark 2 Theme: Earthy Tones [envira-gallery id=”910″]
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