Post by dcruz on Jun 24, 2008 9:11:15 GMT 7
It been a while, i been busy with working. now its time for me to be indulge. My next desination is Phuket Island, Thailand. Last week 19 May 2008, me and Samad berdua arrived kat LCCT unutk ambik first flight ke Phuket jam 12:45 pm mengunnakan ID90. ticket harga time tu rm65 (guna staff ID90 le) dan flight almost full...nasib baik dapat seat..kalau tak kena tunggu next jam 3pm flight le.
The plan is we arrived at Phuket and wait for 2 Samad;s friends by next 3pm flight. We all Tunggu kat Phuket and while waiting, Abg Kudus invite us to his pucket friend's (Abg husin to have a durian. Sampai saja di rumah abg husin which is 10 min from the airport, kami di jamu durian Siam yang lazat2 dan besar. Isinya bukan main besar, dan padat. Lepas tu we all headed to dusun rambutan near his house. Overthere, we picked up the fresh lovely rambutan untuk bawak pulang ke hotel. Thanks to abg husin for the delecious fruits. Dapat jugak alas perut yang lapar..heheheh... By the time, we back to the airport, both the new friends arrived and jumpa for the first time (for me le), Ijam and Fadil who were very kind to share with their room at Chedi resort.
From the airport, we took cab to the Chedi resort, Surin beach. It took about 30 min to reach there. It was a magnificint resort where it so exclusive and rich ( 5 star resort tu..) .We check in and headed to our private cottage ..heard one cottage cost about rm1200 a nite ..gileee..well , we all got it for free... So the plan is for the day, we stay and rest that evening and lepak2 until 8pm. After the sun goes down, and we all fresh up and stroll down to the small town of Surin beach. Actually just a row of shops je...just for an hour we took the resort transport to Patong beach to have our dinner. Sampai je kat Patong beach, there was a lot of people along the streets and mostly tourist from Europe. we all jalan2 tengok barang2 , cuci mata sambil cari makan. We found a local food court which is halal Thai tomyam served. We makan Seafood tomyam and it was original and delicious. Dgn air kelapa yang enak dan bayu laut yg bertiup, Memang sedap dan lazat. Lepas makan we all headed to the famous 'Bngla road' ..we it not because of the bangla..but there where the chicks are. It was full of entertainments and open bars. Lepas puas cuci mata, we all stroll lagi at the streets tengok2 thing happen there. Found out there is a new 'Rock city' open near bangla road ( dulu kat depan seaside) Rock city where is the rock gigs and chick lepak...coool beb... tapi tak sempat nak masuk..just tengok2 je pasal transport balik time dah nak sampai. about 12pm we headed back to Chedi hotel and lepak ..borak2 dan bincang our next activites sampai jam 2am...Seronok betul time tu..sampai tak ingat nak tidor plak...
Day 2,
We all bangun pagi sambil simple sarapan biskut dan milo yang di bawa dari rumah..Pagi tu i just chilled down baring2 dan tengok tv until 10am. Plan hari nie..nak ronda satu pulau Phuket dgn kereta sewa. So that time we walk down to nearest car rental shop called Andaman car rental. Kat situ ada dua kereta Suzuki Sport dan Suzuki Carabian. so we all sebulat suara ambik Suzuki Carabian, 1.3 , 4x4 dan comel sebab sewa murah ,700baht (rm70). With Samad as driver, me as navigator , Ijam and Fadil as passanger, we drove to fill our stomach first. We stop at the Patong beach and look for food, then we found a muslim restoran..nampak banyak ayam goreng yang lazat2 kat depan..perut pun dah lapar..walaupun jam 11am je lagi..so we order a plate of ayam goreng, a big bowl of tomyam dgn nasi putih...ayam goreng pun panas lagi...it's so delicious...sambil makan tu hujan renyai2 pun turun ..nasib baik time makan..kalau tak basah le..
After makan we all drive along the patong town and beach,sambil tu Samad try to change his Turkish money,..tapi tak laku plak.. lepas tu terus gi down south ke Karon beach. Di Karon beach we all drop down dan jalan2 di tepi pantai ..time tu tak ramai pelancong kat sana..may be low season..but then the town very clean, organised and wee bit cheap than patong. Karon beach very peaceful...dan cantik...From Karon beach we stroll down south ke Kata beach...perjalanan ke Kata beach sangat menarik sebab jalan di tepi pantai dan berhadapan dgn banyak 4 dan 5 star hotel resort. Sampai di Kata beach, kami melalui small Kata town yang penuh dgn penjual2 sourviner. Walaupun jalan agak sempit tapi tempat dia teratur dan bersih. Kami lalu di Kata beach dan ia sangat cantik dan agak private walaupun its for public...di situ banyak pelancong bersantai dan permandangan di kelilingi bukit di tepi...Di situ kami berehat dan bersantai kejap sambil menikmati udara segar.
Dari Kata beach, kami meneruskan perjalanan merentas pulau Phuket ke arah timur, dimana melalui kawasan yang berbukit dan jalan yang berselekoh tajam. Dgn menggunakan Suzuki 4x4 tu, pejalanan seungguh seronok, akhirnya kami terserempak dgn Shooting range, We all made a detour, singgah jap..sambil tengok2...mana tau kalau murah boleh le try sepam dua...Lepas usah harga..bayaran agak mahal..rm60 untuk 12 bullet...guna magnum semiauto. Emm..tak berminat..mahal gak..ingat kat sini murah le..hehehe..So we just tengok dan 'shoot' camera je le...kat situ gak ada ATV and Elephant ride. Dari situ kami, go straight down ke Rawai beach..kat situ kawasan paling selatan di Pulau Phuket. Perjalanan lebih kurang 20 min dan kami stop di jeti . Di jeti kami jalan hingga ke hujung dimana ramai org local memancing..nampak macam ikan todak yang banyak kat sana...air dia jernih....Dari situ kami bertolak ke kawasan pantai dan merupakan kawasan 'Sunset area' ..di situ ada banyak restoran seafood, So kami berpatah balik untuk meneruskan perjalanan.. next destination Phuket town.
Dalam perjalanan kami terserempak dgn pasar minggu ditepi jalan..So we stop and have a lot.. over there macam pasar malam kat Malaysia gak..tapi emmmm...babi pun ada jual sekali..Argghhh...anyway..ada gak peniaga Muslim yang jual barangan dan makanan kat sana..Kami beli makanan untuk di cuba...i beli ayam goreng untuk alas perut... We all start and drive to Phuket town, sampai disana jalan agak bersimpang siur..dgn kepakaran membaca map, we all sampai gak di tengah bandar...Sampai je disana hujan start turun..mula2 renyai..pas tu lebat le plak..so we all tak boleh lepak lama...just gi singgah beberapa kedai je le...Waktu tu dah agak petang ..we all sudah penat dan sudah 70 % pulau tu kami menjelajah..So kami drive slowy ke Surin beach dan merehatkan badan di hotel. Lepas sembahyang maghrib we all dah rasa lapar dan start cari makanan pada malam tu..Kali nie We all makan di Surin sebab ternampak ada masjid berhampiran semalam..so we all drive along the small Surin town dan jumpa ada bebrapa tempat makan...So we all order makanan seperti tomyam, nasik paprik dan desert plak makan macam lempeng telo dan lempeng pisang...Nak order agak susah gak le, pasal kawasan kampung nie, nak cakap english susah..bahasa malaysia pun tak tau...So far tomyam order semua sedap2 belaka.
Lepas makan we all drive pegi patong beach plak..situ nite live paling best... As plan malam nie we all nak layan live band...before layan we all book island hopping cruised untuk activity esok paginye.we all pay rm120 sorang..okay le..Tepat jam 11pm, we all masuk 'Rock City' kali cawangan baru di Bangla road, masuk2 terus nampak stage sebijik macam gig..One thing i like this place is band yang main semua main lagu heavy rock saja...First band ari tu main lagi dari 'Shool of Rock' .second band main, lagu dari mix Rock, third band main lagu dari Guns n Roses, tapi last band (yang tak sempat tengok, dah lewat sangat) main dari Metallica...
Day 3,
Awal pagi we all dah bangun.sebab hari nie Island hopping...lebih kurang 7:30am we all dah tunggu di Lobby hotel untuk transport ke Chalong bay. But the we waited an hour ...penat je...tunggu..anyway, we all arrived jam 10am dan terus naik speed boat dan tanpa sedar we all dah on the way to Koh Phi Phi ...Perjalanan ambik masa 40min Pulau pertama nie adalah tempat pengambaran 'movie 'The beach' tempat tu sebaijik macam kat dalam movie..cuma ramai manusia je..we all singgah kat Koh Phi Phi cuma 20 min sahaja..we all just lepak sambil ambik gambar je..tak sempat nak buat apa....Lepas tu we all hop in dalam boat dan the boat stroll kat tepi2 pulau tengok burung layan2 dan monyet2 di monkey bay...Lepas tu we all stop kat pinggir pulau dan we all been provideed dgn snokle set setiap seorang... semua orang diberi peluang untuk dive dan snokle di situ..we all dive dan snokle lebih kurang 30 min...air sangat jernih dan banyak jugak ikan dan coral yang boleh nampak...
Lepas tu we all pack up dan naik balik dan boat terus perjalanan ke Koh Phi Phi Don..Di situ we all diberi keterangan bahawa disana Pulau penduduk Muslim dan dilarang minuman keras dan perkara sumbang dilakukan disana...We all rasa teruja because we all know we all boleh makan yang diserved kat sana...Keadaan pulau sana sungguh tenang..macam kat Kelantan plak..kebnayakkan wanita bertudung disana..Sejuk rasa plak dalam hati nie...We all makan buffet seperti ikan , ayam, tomyam, sayur campur , buah dan nasi..western food pun ada... Kami makan sampai kenyang sebab semua sedap2 dan lepak2 kejap di tepi pantai...dari situ we all berkumpul dan naik bot semua ke pulau seterusnya, Pulau Racha (tak silap aku le)...Kat sana we all drop about 1.5 hours untuk berkelah dan snokle ditepi pantai...we all bersantai saja di pantai sebab dah penat sangat...dan snokle dicelah2 batu....Jam 4 ptg we all set up to go back...perjalanan about 45min dan semua org dalam boat tidor sebab dah letih...Sampai saja di jeti, mini van dah tunggu untuk bawa kami pulang... Pada waktu malam, jam 9 mlm kami menaiki transport hotel dan pergi Patong beach untuk makan malam..malam u agak lewat untuk makan dan sampai saja di Patong beach hujan turun mencurah2..agak malang untuk berjalan nak cari makan time tu...so kedai tomyam halal di patong beach tu dah tutup..so we all decided naik tuk-tuk dah pergi ke arah masjid Patong. Disitu we all makan di Restoran Hakim, dan we order macam biasa le..Tomyam, nasi dan lain2. sesudah kenyang we all tahan taxi-motor dan naik gi jalan Bangla. Sana we all lepak tengok show tepi jalan saja sambil cuci mata...Hastrat naik urut badan yang letih tak kesampaian sebab dah tak cukup masa...Time for back to hotel dan get a nice sleep.
Day 4,
This is our last day here at Phucket, it was a hectic and full tours to every inch of places here. Me and Samad will be departing back to Malaysia jam 1 pm, Ijam dan Fadil still continued the adventures. Pagi tu i woke up early to chill dan watch tv sambil makan maggie as my breakfast...hahaha...About 10pm we all pack out things and check out, we went to the andaman car rental to rent out the Suzuki Caribian. Its because the rental of the car is nearly the same cost of the taxi to airport. so better rent the car out....We drive to the airport and along the way we stop by to have our lunch and we ate the spicy beef stir fried with nasi...it been recommended by the Malaysia speaking siamese waiter...cool..We arrived at airport just in time and took the 1pm flight and bye-bye Phuket It was a second wonderful experience..
The plan is we arrived at Phuket and wait for 2 Samad;s friends by next 3pm flight. We all Tunggu kat Phuket and while waiting, Abg Kudus invite us to his pucket friend's (Abg husin to have a durian. Sampai saja di rumah abg husin which is 10 min from the airport, kami di jamu durian Siam yang lazat2 dan besar. Isinya bukan main besar, dan padat. Lepas tu we all headed to dusun rambutan near his house. Overthere, we picked up the fresh lovely rambutan untuk bawak pulang ke hotel. Thanks to abg husin for the delecious fruits. Dapat jugak alas perut yang lapar..heheheh... By the time, we back to the airport, both the new friends arrived and jumpa for the first time (for me le), Ijam and Fadil who were very kind to share with their room at Chedi resort.
From the airport, we took cab to the Chedi resort, Surin beach. It took about 30 min to reach there. It was a magnificint resort where it so exclusive and rich ( 5 star resort tu..) .We check in and headed to our private cottage ..heard one cottage cost about rm1200 a nite ..gileee..well , we all got it for free... So the plan is for the day, we stay and rest that evening and lepak2 until 8pm. After the sun goes down, and we all fresh up and stroll down to the small town of Surin beach. Actually just a row of shops je...just for an hour we took the resort transport to Patong beach to have our dinner. Sampai je kat Patong beach, there was a lot of people along the streets and mostly tourist from Europe. we all jalan2 tengok barang2 , cuci mata sambil cari makan. We found a local food court which is halal Thai tomyam served. We makan Seafood tomyam and it was original and delicious. Dgn air kelapa yang enak dan bayu laut yg bertiup, Memang sedap dan lazat. Lepas makan we all headed to the famous 'Bngla road' ..we it not because of the bangla..but there where the chicks are. It was full of entertainments and open bars. Lepas puas cuci mata, we all stroll lagi at the streets tengok2 thing happen there. Found out there is a new 'Rock city' open near bangla road ( dulu kat depan seaside) Rock city where is the rock gigs and chick lepak...coool beb... tapi tak sempat nak masuk..just tengok2 je pasal transport balik time dah nak sampai. about 12pm we headed back to Chedi hotel and lepak ..borak2 dan bincang our next activites sampai jam 2am...Seronok betul time tu..sampai tak ingat nak tidor plak...
Day 2,
We all bangun pagi sambil simple sarapan biskut dan milo yang di bawa dari rumah..Pagi tu i just chilled down baring2 dan tengok tv until 10am. Plan hari nie..nak ronda satu pulau Phuket dgn kereta sewa. So that time we walk down to nearest car rental shop called Andaman car rental. Kat situ ada dua kereta Suzuki Sport dan Suzuki Carabian. so we all sebulat suara ambik Suzuki Carabian, 1.3 , 4x4 dan comel sebab sewa murah ,700baht (rm70). With Samad as driver, me as navigator , Ijam and Fadil as passanger, we drove to fill our stomach first. We stop at the Patong beach and look for food, then we found a muslim restoran..nampak banyak ayam goreng yang lazat2 kat depan..perut pun dah lapar..walaupun jam 11am je lagi..so we order a plate of ayam goreng, a big bowl of tomyam dgn nasi putih...ayam goreng pun panas lagi...it's so delicious...sambil makan tu hujan renyai2 pun turun ..nasib baik time makan..kalau tak basah le..
After makan we all drive along the patong town and beach,sambil tu Samad try to change his Turkish money,..tapi tak laku plak.. lepas tu terus gi down south ke Karon beach. Di Karon beach we all drop down dan jalan2 di tepi pantai ..time tu tak ramai pelancong kat sana..may be low season..but then the town very clean, organised and wee bit cheap than patong. Karon beach very peaceful...dan cantik...From Karon beach we stroll down south ke Kata beach...perjalanan ke Kata beach sangat menarik sebab jalan di tepi pantai dan berhadapan dgn banyak 4 dan 5 star hotel resort. Sampai di Kata beach, kami melalui small Kata town yang penuh dgn penjual2 sourviner. Walaupun jalan agak sempit tapi tempat dia teratur dan bersih. Kami lalu di Kata beach dan ia sangat cantik dan agak private walaupun its for public...di situ banyak pelancong bersantai dan permandangan di kelilingi bukit di tepi...Di situ kami berehat dan bersantai kejap sambil menikmati udara segar.
Dari Kata beach, kami meneruskan perjalanan merentas pulau Phuket ke arah timur, dimana melalui kawasan yang berbukit dan jalan yang berselekoh tajam. Dgn menggunakan Suzuki 4x4 tu, pejalanan seungguh seronok, akhirnya kami terserempak dgn Shooting range, We all made a detour, singgah jap..sambil tengok2...mana tau kalau murah boleh le try sepam dua...Lepas usah harga..bayaran agak mahal..rm60 untuk 12 bullet...guna magnum semiauto. Emm..tak berminat..mahal gak..ingat kat sini murah le..hehehe..So we just tengok dan 'shoot' camera je le...kat situ gak ada ATV and Elephant ride. Dari situ kami, go straight down ke Rawai beach..kat situ kawasan paling selatan di Pulau Phuket. Perjalanan lebih kurang 20 min dan kami stop di jeti . Di jeti kami jalan hingga ke hujung dimana ramai org local memancing..nampak macam ikan todak yang banyak kat sana...air dia jernih....Dari situ kami bertolak ke kawasan pantai dan merupakan kawasan 'Sunset area' ..di situ ada banyak restoran seafood, So kami berpatah balik untuk meneruskan perjalanan.. next destination Phuket town.
Dalam perjalanan kami terserempak dgn pasar minggu ditepi jalan..So we stop and have a lot.. over there macam pasar malam kat Malaysia gak..tapi emmmm...babi pun ada jual sekali..Argghhh...anyway..ada gak peniaga Muslim yang jual barangan dan makanan kat sana..Kami beli makanan untuk di cuba...i beli ayam goreng untuk alas perut... We all start and drive to Phuket town, sampai disana jalan agak bersimpang siur..dgn kepakaran membaca map, we all sampai gak di tengah bandar...Sampai je disana hujan start turun..mula2 renyai..pas tu lebat le plak..so we all tak boleh lepak lama...just gi singgah beberapa kedai je le...Waktu tu dah agak petang ..we all sudah penat dan sudah 70 % pulau tu kami menjelajah..So kami drive slowy ke Surin beach dan merehatkan badan di hotel. Lepas sembahyang maghrib we all dah rasa lapar dan start cari makanan pada malam tu..Kali nie We all makan di Surin sebab ternampak ada masjid berhampiran semalam..so we all drive along the small Surin town dan jumpa ada bebrapa tempat makan...So we all order makanan seperti tomyam, nasik paprik dan desert plak makan macam lempeng telo dan lempeng pisang...Nak order agak susah gak le, pasal kawasan kampung nie, nak cakap english susah..bahasa malaysia pun tak tau...So far tomyam order semua sedap2 belaka.
Lepas makan we all drive pegi patong beach plak..situ nite live paling best... As plan malam nie we all nak layan live band...before layan we all book island hopping cruised untuk activity esok paginye.we all pay rm120 sorang..okay le..Tepat jam 11pm, we all masuk 'Rock City' kali cawangan baru di Bangla road, masuk2 terus nampak stage sebijik macam gig..One thing i like this place is band yang main semua main lagu heavy rock saja...First band ari tu main lagi dari 'Shool of Rock' .second band main, lagu dari mix Rock, third band main lagu dari Guns n Roses, tapi last band (yang tak sempat tengok, dah lewat sangat) main dari Metallica...
Day 3,
Awal pagi we all dah bangun.sebab hari nie Island hopping...lebih kurang 7:30am we all dah tunggu di Lobby hotel untuk transport ke Chalong bay. But the we waited an hour ...penat je...tunggu..anyway, we all arrived jam 10am dan terus naik speed boat dan tanpa sedar we all dah on the way to Koh Phi Phi ...Perjalanan ambik masa 40min Pulau pertama nie adalah tempat pengambaran 'movie 'The beach' tempat tu sebaijik macam kat dalam movie..cuma ramai manusia je..we all singgah kat Koh Phi Phi cuma 20 min sahaja..we all just lepak sambil ambik gambar je..tak sempat nak buat apa....Lepas tu we all hop in dalam boat dan the boat stroll kat tepi2 pulau tengok burung layan2 dan monyet2 di monkey bay...Lepas tu we all stop kat pinggir pulau dan we all been provideed dgn snokle set setiap seorang... semua orang diberi peluang untuk dive dan snokle di situ..we all dive dan snokle lebih kurang 30 min...air sangat jernih dan banyak jugak ikan dan coral yang boleh nampak...
Lepas tu we all pack up dan naik balik dan boat terus perjalanan ke Koh Phi Phi Don..Di situ we all diberi keterangan bahawa disana Pulau penduduk Muslim dan dilarang minuman keras dan perkara sumbang dilakukan disana...We all rasa teruja because we all know we all boleh makan yang diserved kat sana...Keadaan pulau sana sungguh tenang..macam kat Kelantan plak..kebnayakkan wanita bertudung disana..Sejuk rasa plak dalam hati nie...We all makan buffet seperti ikan , ayam, tomyam, sayur campur , buah dan nasi..western food pun ada... Kami makan sampai kenyang sebab semua sedap2 dan lepak2 kejap di tepi pantai...dari situ we all berkumpul dan naik bot semua ke pulau seterusnya, Pulau Racha (tak silap aku le)...Kat sana we all drop about 1.5 hours untuk berkelah dan snokle ditepi pantai...we all bersantai saja di pantai sebab dah penat sangat...dan snokle dicelah2 batu....Jam 4 ptg we all set up to go back...perjalanan about 45min dan semua org dalam boat tidor sebab dah letih...Sampai saja di jeti, mini van dah tunggu untuk bawa kami pulang... Pada waktu malam, jam 9 mlm kami menaiki transport hotel dan pergi Patong beach untuk makan malam..malam u agak lewat untuk makan dan sampai saja di Patong beach hujan turun mencurah2..agak malang untuk berjalan nak cari makan time tu...so kedai tomyam halal di patong beach tu dah tutup..so we all decided naik tuk-tuk dah pergi ke arah masjid Patong. Disitu we all makan di Restoran Hakim, dan we order macam biasa le..Tomyam, nasi dan lain2. sesudah kenyang we all tahan taxi-motor dan naik gi jalan Bangla. Sana we all lepak tengok show tepi jalan saja sambil cuci mata...Hastrat naik urut badan yang letih tak kesampaian sebab dah tak cukup masa...Time for back to hotel dan get a nice sleep.
Day 4,
This is our last day here at Phucket, it was a hectic and full tours to every inch of places here. Me and Samad will be departing back to Malaysia jam 1 pm, Ijam dan Fadil still continued the adventures. Pagi tu i woke up early to chill dan watch tv sambil makan maggie as my breakfast...hahaha...About 10pm we all pack out things and check out, we went to the andaman car rental to rent out the Suzuki Caribian. Its because the rental of the car is nearly the same cost of the taxi to airport. so better rent the car out....We drive to the airport and along the way we stop by to have our lunch and we ate the spicy beef stir fried with nasi...it been recommended by the Malaysia speaking siamese waiter...cool..We arrived at airport just in time and took the 1pm flight and bye-bye Phuket It was a second wonderful experience..