A very blue sky greeted us this morning, but within minutes of opening my internet connection, the Wifi system went down, so I can only update right now.
Here’s a picture from the hotel room with a view over the outskirts of Surat Thani and a nice blue sky to go with it.
Yesterday it was a nice enough day, not too warm but almost all day long overcast with in the morning even some drizzle in Donsak.
Today, after breakfast, we were on our way to Phuket however.
Driving on Thai roads is and remains an interesting activity which needs full attention levels at all times. There’s a new highway between Surat Thani and Krabi, a stretch of about 100 km, with 4 lanes.
On this short stretch of highway, we encountered 5 ghost riders and a good dozen motorbike ghost riders. They rather travel anywhere from a few kilometers to a couple of hundred meters against traffic rather than following the road in the right direction and hang a U turn.
The price of the day went to a guy who parked his motorbike on the hard shoulder on a bridge, on the side of the fast lane, where the shoulder is just about a meter wide, if at all, and he was fishing off this bridge, walking up and down the shoulder checking his equipment.
The mind boggles with so much ignorance and bliss to danger.
We arrived safely in Phuket however and went straight to an Oishi restaurant before we checked in to the room at the Centara Kata Resort, in Kata, Phuket.
Camille
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