We waited at the hotel lobby for few minutes after the breakfast and we are greet by our tour guide. We have good chat on the way and we are superbly surprise that we are the only one in the tour so we have exclusive private tour with one driver and one tour guide. That is damm value of money.
The tour guide speaks very well English and we chatted like long known friend. We chat about F1, Malaysia’s’ Island, tsunami, economy, lifestyle and even religious. Our very first stop was Karon Beach Viewpoint.
At this viewpoint we can see the beautiful 3 beaches mainly the Patong, Kata and Karon beach. The journey from Patong to the hill passes through the beaches so we can see the hotel and lifestyle near the beach. Undeniable, it was much quieter and not as exciting as Patong, suitable for those who wanted total relaxation. The viewpoint is extremely beautiful and refreshing and the spectacular view of 3 beaches at 300 feet above the sea level is just difficult to describe in word.
We then continue our journey along other small beaches such as Nan Hai, Club Med, and Cape Tromphep .
We arrive at yet another view point. The view was yet another spectacular sight. At this point I was standing, I swear to myself that if one day, I can be as rich as Bill Gates, I gonna buy this piece of land and built my villa here. It is just awesome. There is also wind generator there as well.
Our next stop is Phuket Shooting range and adventure park.
We were brief about those games and we are allow to shoot without license here but we choose not to as it was expensive and it was’t in out budget. Other games available are paint ball, war games and ATV. Of course we didn’t play anything as it would be look a bit idiot if we play paint ball with 3 persons. So we decided to go off early.
Our next stop is Wat Chalong, the most visited temple in Phuket. There is a 3 tier pagoda build with white and pink marble whereby the highest floor contain Buddha relic. This pagoda is built with donation collected from tourist and local residents and take years to accomplish. The structure of thai temple is always very detail, symmetry and colorful. Thai people are in deed very religious as well. They burn fire cracker as thanks to the god, the offer flower and fruit as giving and blessing and they do lot of donation.
For me, I really like the art work in Wat Chalong that my camera cannot stop snapping photos. We do some praying before we left the temple. In deed we spent the most of the time in the temple.
Our next stop is Cashew Nut factory whereby the famous cashew nut of phuket is manufactured. Our dedicated tour guide explains the process of how the cashew nut is process. For your info, cashew fruit contain 2 parts mainly the fruit which we call it apple or ‘jambu’ in Malay and the nut itself. When the nut is pluck, it was crash using a machine as it was extremely hard, then the raw nut which contain lot of latex need to be clean and roasted and repeated process is done until it was clean and ready for cook. For century, we have been throwing away the fruit as it was useless and tasteless but due to the intelligent ladyboss, it was now been process into Cashew Apple juice whereby the extract is added with soda drink and it taste nice and refreshing just like fresh coconut with honey. We spent some time shopping and we end up buying at least 2100 bath worth of cashew nut product. You must be thinking we better chop down the tree and bring back to KL instead. But looking at the volume of cashew nut we bought and the difficult process of getting the cashew nut, I do believe it worth the money we spent in.
Our next stop which is also the last would be the Wan Tanlang (hope I get the name correct) for jewelry and gem factory which is also famous for its own pearl processing.
It was cheap in price but just not the perfect timing for us to buy. The sales person keep on asking us to buy for our mom, our girl friend and our wife. You know what he said when we said we are still not attached? He just forwarded with another question which is “Then buy for your boyfriend instead”…@#$!^$*3%We end up arriving hotel at 11.45, an hour earlier than expected mainly due to the less people and we didn’t spent much time. Since we have nothing to do, we headed again to the Patong beach and swim. The wave was extremely high about 1 meter and the current was so strong that it can turn us 360 if we just sit there. No joke. There is one current that push me 10 meter away…Just believe that…
Night fall and we headed to Fantasea, the magical land of mystery.
As many of my friend said that the show was just not nice and not worth of money, we opt for the buffet dinner and we still able to take photo around.
The buffet which so call the ‘grandest’ wasn’t grandest buffet I ever ate but the hall is extremely magnificent. Imagine eating at the hall that can fit in 4000 people at one time fully decorated with nice statue. 
The staff are extremely polite as they keep on sawadee kap, and they just continue to kap, kap, kap and kap here and kap there. Kap, Krab Kon Kap….
We have our stomach filled and we decided to go for a walk when the god decided to pour in heavy rain. Everyone run to the theater for their show leaving barely 10 people around the park. Yup, most people buy the show ticket and not like us. Well, I do expect that as it was the most advertise program of all in Phuket. So the whole theme park are left with 3 musketeer wondering around taking photo like there is no body care…Ya, it was no body care what!!! We spent half an hour wondering the Jungle adventure whereby we saw few animal like parrot, peacock, snake, deer, monkey, dinasour…and very fortunate rats. This toy factory are the home of about 20 mouse…Can u believe that!
The finale of kingdom of the jungle adventure is the palace of the Tiger. Mind you, it really mean palace!
The Palace come with a swimming pool and the main stage as well. Damm “ham fook” the 2 white tiger.
One was sleeping and another one walking around non stop. I can even snap a photo but to take a video instead...Such an active animal...
The rain stop when we come out from the Kingdom and we start snapping photo again…and we stop at 10.30 when the crowd expected to come out.
The death city was alive again when the light is on, music was play and the staffs suddenly appear from no way. All the booth is open again awaiting those visitor to come out from the theater. I believe god was just too envy to them that He decided to pour in more rain…Hehe….so we run to the taxi stop where we wait for our missing taxi…
The journey ended here for Day 3 as we went back with tired face and lot of photosssssssss…..
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