Day 12 - Poolside Day and Patong Beach at Night



After our visit to Phuket yesterday, we decided to try Patong Beach this evening. We spent the day at the pool with the elephants doing our usual things around the resort. After showers we called for a taxi and started on the long ride to Patong Beach It takes about an hour and the traffic is OMG, kind of scary. Once we arrived, Patong Beach seems to be the Las Vegas of Phuket. Blinking neon lights, tons of open air restaurants along the streets and lots of shops and lots and lots of people. I have been there before but the others had not. I actually saw my first Starbucks sign since Hong Kong. Unfortunately, nobody was in the mood for coffee as we had already consumed that on the ride down to Patong. Instead we went to an outdoors huge bar where there was a live band with three girls in net stockings singing ABBA tunes!

Feeling fortified we attacked the shopping streets down by the beach. We actually did not by a lot. I only bought a beach cover/dress-thing to wear around the house when summer arrives back home. While walking around we passed lots of restaurants. We started to look at the menus and imaging my surprise when a good  number of them had the menu in English and Swedish! Complete with Swedish specialities on the menu!! We ended up at an Indian restaurant. And now it started to rain! You know, the kind of tropical rain that comes down in buckets and is warm. We managed to find a taxi to take us back to Mai Kao. This taxi had entertainment - a video screen and we were treated to a Bee Gees concert that lasted all the way home!