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FantaSea Evening Show and Dinner Buffet

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:24:14 GMT

FanataSea is a large theme park located on Kammal Beah, 9 km for Patong. It has a show lasting a little over an hour. It is family entertainment with 4 D effects being acrobats performing above the audience. It features a very large cast of elephants, but

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Jungceylon Vintage Bicycle and Classical Music Show

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:56:34 GMT

During our second week we discoverd them setting up this display of vintage bicycles. Bicycles were used by the local population. They were not as popular as scooters.

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Phi Phi Island Boat Tour

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:51:30 GMT

The trip to Phi Phi Iland took about an hour and 40 minutes by boat. It was a calm sunny day which we were told was excetional for the rainy season. We assembled at the pier waiting for the other mini buses to arrive from the other resorts. Some had thei

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Raya Island Snorkeling Tour

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:38:32 GMT

We travelled to Raya Island aftere being picked up at our resort at 7:45 a.m. We stopped a bar located near the beach where the high speed boats were beached. As we waited for other mini buses to arrive from other resorts it began to rain. As the remainin

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Patong Street Vendors

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:27:49 GMT

The street vendors had different spots where they would sell their wares. Their food was inexpensive, usually aroung 40 baht which is $1.40 Canadian. It was also very filling. Usually it consisted of a noodle dish with either beef , pork of chicken. Some

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Simon Cabaret

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:59:29 GMT

This is a cabaret performance of what the locals call. "lady boys" or men dressed as ladys. It is a musical performance with a great many actors. Some of it was done in Thai but the acting made it pretty understandable. They had two evening performances T

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Evening Meals Out

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:16:25 GMT

We managed to dine out several times at three different places. One place that we ate at twice was located in a small alley that we had trouble finding a second time. We even managed to have a German buffet supper at a Schnitzel place in the Jungceylon ma

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Jungceylon Mall Visit

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:51:27 GMT

Jungceylon the International Shopping and Leisure Destination in Patong was within walking distance from or hotel. You can check it out here: http://www.jungceylon.com/

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Early Morning Patong City Walk

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:38:27 GMT

These photos were taken when I went for an early morning walk as Irma was recovering from her bout with food poisoning. She ate some smoke fish that had her throwing up all night.

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Patong Resort in Phuket Thailand

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:55:18 GMT

Holiday in Phuket, Thailand Our journey began as our colleague and friend Robin Kennedy drove us to the airport on the evening of Sunday September 13th. Departure was at 2045 via Singapore airlines, an airline that we had not previously flown with. We go

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