Land of Thai: Phuket Edition

Greetings! New cultures, new people, new adventures. You know the drill. Allons-y!

Found this random bloke who wanted to go to Thailand, but the thought of sitting in some resort for several weeks made him physically ill, so being a motorbike dude he wanted to do a bit of tour of the country instead.

He asked me to go with him and I was like eh, why not. Let's do the thing.

Rather different to my usual travel MO, so I was interested in seeing how it turned out.

BUT FIRST...is Phuket, which you can't really do without the whole sitting in resort thing, so for a few days, that's what we started with.

Gotta work your way into it, y'know?

Work, work, work.

Phuket is an island on the south west coast of Thailand – think of it almost as much a young Australian travel destination cliché almost at the level Bali is.

The place looks a hell of a lot like Bali, in fact (so much so you can just go back to that post - literally they're basically the same images but also I can't get the couple of pics I did take of Phuket streets off my camera but whatever). It has the same little streets and chaotic power lines and friendly locals who are used to any and all shit shit, like white people who come to Thailand and still inexplicably insist on eating steak and chips.

Fun fact: Thai people are terrible at cooking Western food! And I mean food safety-wise not just taste-wise, so you are, rather ironically, more likely to get sick.

Instead you just hire a scooter, "I think I can, I think I can" up the hills and stop at any random little stall or restaurant, and you're guaranteed something simple and delicious.

And with alright views.

Also teeny tiny servers.

Pretty much the most Thai scene you'll ever come across.

One evening we ventured out to a night market, aka the way most Thais do their shopping and what turned out to be our very favourite thing to do in Thailand.