After checking out and leaving our luggage at the hotel, we walked around on Koh Phi Phi for a while, ending up on a beach we hadn't been to yet. It was a wonderful spot from where we could enjoy the beautiful scenery of the steep cliffs and turquoise water, as well as an unobstructed view of Koh Phi Phi Ley. We were wondering why the hell we were leaving this island and thinking about maybe moving there to start a diveshop or something... :-P Unfortunately we had a boat to catch that would take us to Koh Phuket, one of Thailand's biggest islands and probably one of the most touristically developped ones as well. On arrival at the ferry pier, we were told Patong Beach was the place to go, so that's where we went. We were dropped off in the centre of it and walked around until we found an affordable guesthouse on the beach. After getting rid of our heavy bags, we walked around the pedestrian street of Patong. It was lined with bars and more bars and a few souvenir shops. We ended up having dinner at a Dutch restaurant cause Nat was really tempted by a good "kroket met friet en mayonnaise" and she hadn't seen a Dutch restaurant in a very very long time!! We walked back to our hostel, got changed and then went back out to sit at a table on the terrace of a bar overlooking the pedestrian street right in front of it. We had the best time ever! We laughed so much because we spent several hours just people-watching... and Phuket really does attract some of the worst people!! We were amazed by the amount of ugly fat white guys walking around hand in hand with young thai girls. Another thing that's amazing about Patong is the amount of "ping pong shows" on offer. You can't walk down the street without being invited to watch at least 20 different ping pong shows! Also, the "ladyboys" in Patong are amazing! Some of them were dancing on a little stage in front of our bar all night long. Most of them wore sexy dresses or fancy feathers. From where we were sitting, we could see about 5 girls (actually, they may have been guys...) dancing around poles on the balcony of one bar and at the same time we had a view over another pole dance at a bar on the other side... We saw a girl (or guy??) walk around in what were definitely the shortest shorts EVER: her thong was in plain sight and the shorts were more like a belt worn low around the bottom of her ass... This same street is also a place where families walk by and where the kids look up in a shy way cause they're not sure whether they're actually allowed to look at any of it... Anyway, at our table, there was another couple, a guy from Norway and a Thai woman... they started talking to us and it was just weird... she was asking questions that suggested that Pierre had found Nat in the street somewhere and had hooked up with her for the night! I guess she didn't quite understand the concept of people being together without paying for it...
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