Phuket - hell on earth

Christmas day was not as I had expected it would be, but Celia & I were together, enjoying another day on our awesome trip, so not all so bad.

We had to catch a flight from Phuket to Singapore which left early in the morning so sadly we had to be in Phuket the evening before. If the ferry ride was unbelievable, what awaited us was even worse. Granted we did go to the worst part of Phuket, Patong Beach, as we wanted to stock up on some good cheap clothes and possibly a movie or two, but oh my word, I beg you to give it a miss on your next trip in Thailand.

The streets by day are mostly empty (in comparison) as most of the seedy bars have closed but when the sun sets as in some kind of zombie movie all the lady boys and sex tourists come out to play. The bars are steaming with loud music, men with boobs / woman, gyrating around street side stripper poles. This seems to go on all night as when i woke up in the morning to get a taxi the bars were still serving and i was still getting propositioned by men / momen - not sure...

Couldn't wait to get back to our happy place, the lovely Singapore!!