Our Christmas trio hopped on a plane from Phnom Penh headed for the sandy beaches of Phuket, Thailand. After a Dairy Queen treat in the Bangkok airport (just don't see DQ in Korea!) before our connecting flight to Phuket, we settled into our hotel room in Karon Beach and went to enjoy the first of many delicious Thai meals (well, except for when Tiffany and Ange got sick - then nothing was delicious). We met up with friends and colleagues from Korea for a couple of days before Tiffany and I took off for an overnight snorkeling tour of the Similan Islands, a chain of 9 beautiful islands in the Andaman Sea, with the whitest, most powdery sand my toes have ever felt among them! Quite a production with speedboats everywhere during the day, but when the daytrippers left, the island was serene and quiet. We camped and managed to avoid seeing the python that others saw when trekking to the nearby beach to see the nocturnal chicken crabs. Ironically, we had opted to search for a different empty tent, since ours had many holes in it. After hearing about the python spotting and watching rats run across the pavilion floor that night, I still didn't have the most restful sleep, but it was much better than it would have been if we had stayed in the more "air-conditioned" tent!
We definitely enjoyed this relaxing leg of the trip before returning to Semester 2 of this school year!
Enjoy pictures at this link:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=4zp3vcn.3zsd3m3v&x=0&y=-paqiem&localeid=en_US
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