Phuket is Magical

Its going to be very hard to describe the magic of this place except to sum up that its warm all day and night (quite hot actually), extremely pretty, has amazing food, has extremely friendly people, has crystal clear warm waters, a quirky happening nightlife, and is still somehow relaxing. We've enjoyed our time here and could definitely deal with a few more days, but we head to Bangkok tomorrow.  Please enjoy the pictures from Phuket.

Amazing Thai dinner in an amazing outdoor setting.

Quite possibly the best dumpling ever, and its purple to add to the excitement!

Day trip to the Phi Phi Islands (snorkeling, beaches, monkeys, pretty as can be)

Fresh coconut water absolutely needed in this heat!

A beautiful peacock right on our hotel property

Fruits galore, we've sampled everything we can get our hands on. The Mangos and Mangosteens are to dye for here! There are also plenty of other crazy fruits and tastes! One item we found literally tastes like caramel custard (amazing and don't know what it is called)

Dragon fruit and rambutans 

Our assortment we bought and brought back to the room for snacking

A random Thai temple in Karon

Sunset from the panorama lounge at the hotel



Phuket Karon Beach

Hello from our room view on Karon Beach at the Hilton Arcadia Resort!

FlightTrack Pro: Thai Airways International 466 - Melbourne to Bangkok

You can track the flight now to view its progress in the skies. If you already have FlightTrack installed, you can track it in the app.

SCHEDULED

THAI AIRWAYS INTERNATIONAL (TG) 466

1:55 GMT+10 PM — 8:25 GMT+7 PM

ARRIVES BKK MAY 6 TERMINAL -- GATE --

via FlightTrack Pro

Moving on from Aussie Land

The time has come again for us to continue our Journey. Thailand is our next stop with Phuket first and then Bangkok.

This is the first time we are absolutely ready to move on. Unfortunately Australia in general did not meet our expectations. It really is just too much like California at almost double the cost. Sydney = LA and Melbourne = San Francisco, both + a little wrongness and odder rowdy attitude. We will give credit where it is due though. It is pretty here, both landscape and a disproportionately people wise, and we have had excellent food and drink. But seriously for anyone considering spending the time and money to get here from the states, we just didn't find anything overwhelming different or interesting enough to make it a destination.

We close here with some random shots of our last couple days. Looking forward to our first time on Thai Airways in their Royal Silk Class of service getting to Thailand.

Enjoying Coffee shop and Sweets (Lots of opportunities here for this)

One of our many feasts of delicious food

Lily Black's bar (largest collection of working bitters in the world they claim).  There are a bunch of these old school prohibition era bars in Melbourne and all quite good with varying ambiances.

Fairly cool architecture in Melbourne in general, almost Berlin like with old meets new.

We just had to photo op this. One of our favorite cult YouTube videos from the Metro authority here has a billboard with the characters. They really must have had a large amount of train related deaths here. http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DIJNR2EpS0jw&h=HAQHnUDlY

  

Aussie Wildlife

The creatures and animals here are certainly unique, and it was quite a blast to get to see many of them up close.

Lemur from Hyde Park in Sydney (They replace squirrels here)

Tree Frog

Some sort of monkey

Aussie Pelican

Red Kangaroo

Sun Bear

They really like to lounge about in the sun.

Seeing them hop is very cool as they look lighter than air.  

Up close with a male Koala. "Benny" is his name and these are just amazing to watch and are too cute. They also need 800 trees worth of Eucalyptus leaves a year to live. Its all they eat, the only animal that can eat it, and only the top young leaves.

The Tasmanian Devil, seems cute enough...

Wide Breasted Eagle - 2nd largest in Australia

Feeding a parakeet.