Hello again..
Today, after a long time I divorce with my blog (and now we getting back together) I wanna tell you a story about what we have done in Thailand last January 2013. Yippi, are you ready? I'll tell you all from the beginning til I touched my hometown, Bogor, West Java, loving Indonesia.
18 January 2013,
Me with my friends- Putri and Hayata- met in bus terminal named by Pudu Raya. We planned to go to Thai by bus and it took in a night from 22.00-9.00. What a realy tiring long journey! The bus had a big seat, TV in each single seats and of course it feels sooo comfortable to us. With RM 65 we can reach our first destination: HATYAI. Ticket pricewill getting much expensive if you go there in a peak
season and this rm 65 was also an expensive one coz we go in peak season too. Firstly, we went from PUDU RAYA, KUALA LUMPUR to HATYAI (Thai). But, before HATYAI entrance, we as foreigners have to do some queue in THAI Imigration checkpoint. All stuffs must be brought outside and checked by staff. Mmm, my first thought about this country is always about ghost. It's quitely proven by surroundings with lots of yellow grave flowers, buddha statues, Thai straight face, unknown language. No wonder, I feel so much frightened when I see around but I cant find anyone with veil except 3 of us.
Surprisingly, another one kind of unique Thai is its hermaphrodite (effeminate or transvestite homo sexual) alias banci deh ya kalau kita bilang. Lah, why I change my words of a sudden? Yap, no doubt, I perfectly saw what I must see here, beatiful men with their long and straight hair, beautify their faces with full of make up, they totally seem pretty, Really, I dont talk a lie. Nevertheless, the beauty of them suddeny disapeared when they talk. Ahhahaha, how funny they are when replying question from travellers and I- with my pair of ears heard their own voice. Face lies but does not voice?
Oke, I talk too much, now lets continue...
We touched down HATYAI at 7am, and fastly moved to place-like mall trade center- where we get a bus to PHUKET.Ticket price from HATYAI to PHUKET TOWN was approximately RM 55 or nearly 550 baht. If I'm not mistaken, heheh. Some friend said that we are lied by the seller, we can get cheaper for price. Yah, how can we complain to them while we have a clumsy conversation? we realy wanna scream 'OH GOD HELP ME TO INTERPRET THEIR LANGUAGE. Both of us cant understand what we are saying. All happened because these different languages. We said in English, and they just nodded. Alhamdulillah, we found one who can translate English and Melayu to Thai. After a long conversation, our van picked us up at 10.30am. Ah, I forgot to attach pictures of van. Dont worry about their service, the van is very clean and tidy. Unfortunately, driver did not understand English. He just nodded as hint of answering. When lunch time comes, we stopped in a restaurant. We bought halal bread and snacks. I didnt have appetite to have a meal coz my high level of worry. It is hardly enough to find halal food or drink. After 30 minutes, we continued the trip. Driver drived with 80-100km/hour. Ticket seller said that we can arrive PHUKET TOWN after 6 hours from HATYAI. So we calculated our body would get their rights to lie down at 4pm.
WE have PLAN, but ALLAH HAS MORE AUTHORITY TO GRANT OUR PLAN AND HE IS THE BEST PLANNER.
Yuhuu, the time we have planned was wrong, driver from PHUKET stopped us in a house of other taxi driver. So, we changed transportation from PHUKET TOWN to PATONG. We bought ticket taxi from phuket to patong with only 1000 baht for 3 people. And before departure, we already booked 3 rooms in hotel with rm 55 for each person. Not a single bed room, but dorm room. It's quite expensive for backpackers like us. But, we should book hotel at first night in order to have a safety first. At 5.15pm, we just arrived safely at Squareone Hotel, Patong, Phuket. The staffs look pretty and very charming. They look like Chinese Thai with fluent English. After a bit registration, Alhamdulillah we lied down on the bed. Some one inside, she is Australian. She is charming too. Afterwards, we do Ashar prayer, then waiting for Maghrib Azan. There are no sound outside but dag dug dag voice from neighbour. No mosque around, and staff doesnt know where is the qiblah. Of course, they aren't Muslim. Th,en, we see sun from west. And decide the qiblah before we do prayer. After taking bath, doing Magrib prayer, reciting Quran and Isya prayer, we went out to have dinner. Hoaa, so hungry. And we find halal restaurant. We choose tomyam, kailan, chicken chop and some drinks. Those are signs of wondering taste. I cant say anything but 'i wanna eat eat eat again tomorrow' .So how are you, my pocket?
After having dinner, we booked trip ticket in some travels. We chose a day to visit Phi Phi Island then tomorrow we continue with James Bond Island. Price is no much expensive, its about rm 75 (750 baht) for Phi Phi Island trip and rm 85 (850 baht) for James Bond Island. We grin widely while walking to hotel.
In crisp morning, driver picked us up from hotel to port towards Phi Phi Island. We chose big boat with crowded passenggers around. It took 2 hours to get there. We sat on the top of boat and program begins after approaching shallow beach for snorkeling. Thats my first time to snorkel and seaview is also very magnificent. Time to indulge, dump all those matters away. After 20 minutes, we continued voyage and stop at Phi Phi Island for having buffet lunch then enjoy on seeing another beach.
Here, i write down my own expenses while try to remember coz my note has gone away without saying a word :
1. Bus ticket KL Pudu Raya-Hatyai : RM 65x2 : 130 *expensive coz of peak day
2. Van ticket Hatyai-Phuket Town : RM 55x2 : 110 *I think get it cheaper
3. High Class Taxi Phuket Town-Patong : RM 33 *Rm100 for 3 people. Then, why I as backpacker took an expensive car? LOL, I dunno if taxi there was that cool. we 've not found public taxi somehow
4. Hotel day 1 : RM 55*thank to agoda.com
5. Hotel day 2 and 3 : RM 66
6. Dinner at Muslim Restaurant even once : RM 30*don't be so shocked
7. Noodle, water, bread, toilet, etc for 4 days : RM 20
8. Travel Ticket to Phi Phi Island : RM 75
9. Travel Ticket to James Bond Islamd : RM 85
10. Shopping : RM 50
Total = RM 654.
WE have PLAN, but ALLAH HAS MORE AUTHORITY TO GRANT OUR PLAN AND HE IS THE BEST PLANNER.
Yuhuu, the time we have planned was wrong, driver from PHUKET stopped us in a house of other taxi driver. So, we changed transportation from PHUKET TOWN to PATONG. We bought ticket taxi from phuket to patong with only 1000 baht for 3 people. And before departure, we already booked 3 rooms in hotel with rm 55 for each person. Not a single bed room, but dorm room. It's quite expensive for backpackers like us. But, we should book hotel at first night in order to have a safety first. At 5.15pm, we just arrived safely at Squareone Hotel, Patong, Phuket. The staffs look pretty and very charming. They look like Chinese Thai with fluent English. After a bit registration, Alhamdulillah we lied down on the bed. Some one inside, she is Australian. She is charming too. Afterwards, we do Ashar prayer, then waiting for Maghrib Azan. There are no sound outside but dag dug dag voice from neighbour. No mosque around, and staff doesnt know where is the qiblah. Of course, they aren't Muslim. Th,en, we see sun from west. And decide the qiblah before we do prayer. After taking bath, doing Magrib prayer, reciting Quran and Isya prayer, we went out to have dinner. Hoaa, so hungry. And we find halal restaurant. We choose tomyam, kailan, chicken chop and some drinks. Those are signs of wondering taste. I cant say anything but 'i wanna eat eat eat again tomorrow' .So how are you, my pocket?
After having dinner, we booked trip ticket in some travels. We chose a day to visit Phi Phi Island then tomorrow we continue with James Bond Island. Price is no much expensive, its about rm 75 (750 baht) for Phi Phi Island trip and rm 85 (850 baht) for James Bond Island. We grin widely while walking to hotel.
In crisp morning, driver picked us up from hotel to port towards Phi Phi Island. We chose big boat with crowded passenggers around. It took 2 hours to get there. We sat on the top of boat and program begins after approaching shallow beach for snorkeling. Thats my first time to snorkel and seaview is also very magnificent. Time to indulge, dump all those matters away. After 20 minutes, we continued voyage and stop at Phi Phi Island for having buffet lunch then enjoy on seeing another beach.
Here, i write down my own expenses while try to remember coz my note has gone away without saying a word :
1. Bus ticket KL Pudu Raya-Hatyai : RM 65x2 : 130 *expensive coz of peak day
2. Van ticket Hatyai-Phuket Town : RM 55x2 : 110 *I think get it cheaper
3. High Class Taxi Phuket Town-Patong : RM 33 *Rm100 for 3 people. Then, why I as backpacker took an expensive car? LOL, I dunno if taxi there was that cool. we 've not found public taxi somehow
4. Hotel day 1 : RM 55*thank to agoda.com
5. Hotel day 2 and 3 : RM 66
6. Dinner at Muslim Restaurant even once : RM 30*don't be so shocked
7. Noodle, water, bread, toilet, etc for 4 days : RM 20
8. Travel Ticket to Phi Phi Island : RM 75
9. Travel Ticket to James Bond Islamd : RM 85
10. Shopping : RM 50
Total = RM 654.
one cheerful Korean
Phi Phi Island
another Korean passenger
