This will be the first travelblog from our holiday in Thailand and as she has flown out from NZ to join me for the trip, the first blog starring Cushla. We are spending 9 nights in Thailand, starting in Bangkok, then heading to Phuket, then to Phi Phi Island and finally back to Bangkok for another night. Because of this split itinerary, I’ve decided to leave the Bangkok travelblog until last and will start this one on Day 3 at Phuket. For those who don’t know, Phuket is an island just off the southwestern coast of Thailand, facing into the Indian Ocean. This means that it faced right into the teeth of the Boxing Day Tsunami a couple of years ago, and given that Phuket is a tourist mecca quite a lot of havoc was caused
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