After breakfast , it was time to check out the otherside of phuket, so today's plan was Kata,Pnom Peh,rawai so on...
Kata beach is again 10min drive from Karon Beach, nice laid back town,walked around the town and the beaches,moved towards Kata Noi, then Nai Harn ,Promthep Cape, towards the sunset view point, man what a view from sunset view point , truly remarkable, which is on a little hill side, towards the cape ,there are lots of small beaches ,with excellent snorkellingpoints and hardly any tourists..
This is what i was looking forward to , not the madness of Patong !! from there we moved towards Rawai , which seems like a fishing village, nice !! few visitors !! less crowd...
Since i was also into Aquatic Hobby , i wanted to Visit the Phuket Aquarium, from Rawai , we hit towards Aquarium and again
managed to get lost and reached Cape Panwa !!! but whooz complaining , man !! again whatta view , i knew i was near phuket
Aquarium , but the beauty of Cape Panwa , i was left speechless... well , i left Panwa towards Phuket , thinking that i will come back to Aquarium tomorrow, on the way back we stopped at Phuket Zoo,, Another Major Rip off !! dont even go near !! nothing is there which is intresting or worth the 500 baht u pay !!
we slowly hit back towards Karon, and boy i was hungry , stopped again at a Local Food Joint where i saw a decent crowd , and pointed at noodles, meat and ingredients to add , had one of the best thai food for 100 baht !! for two. !! ...
Eating Out:
Anywhere you eat in Phuket, the bill can vary from 750 baht to 1500 baht , the issue here was i wanted everything very spicy where
most of the thai food i tasted was plain and had very little spice , so improvise , add , ask them for more spicy , if we tell them spicy they will bring food which is ok , ask them very very spicy ,and voila .. u will have a great time.. this ofcourse if u like more fire to the food , if u don't like more spicy food, then ask them spicy, that should be ok .
Most of the restaurants have or cater more or less towards western and euro based food and where ever they mention thai ,
its basically for westerners and europeans , if u want an authentic thai, then move out from the town areas of Phuket ,
patong, where u will find authentic thai food , which is mouthwatering and dirt cheap !! look out for small eatouts,
where thais flock !! thats the place u want to go if u want some good thai food !!
On the way back from Rawai , we travelled a differnt route to reach Phuket, stopped at numerous small shacks and tasted the
best of thai , a meal for two costed us 110 baht !!! and it was tasty,filling,satisfying !! , the issue is since these guys
dont talk much english , u have to depend on sign language , go to a shack,where most of them makes the phad thai or what they
call the noodle soup right in front of u, observe what they are adding , then pray !!
, and ask them what u want how u want it , by a simple yes and no.
for ex: point to noodle say yes, so does with the meat and the spices and the add on u think will be good . with a few yes and no, voilaa , u have the best noodles in front of u !!!
we reached Karon , by then it was night and the party animal in me woke up ... well, what to say, we hit Patong , it was around 8pm and we were near Patong , and there we saw a looong queue in the Road , and my Fears came True , it was a Police checking and we didn't had our License with us ... well what happened next !! like a true Bloria'n Biker, Closed my eyes , Prayed, and gave Full throttle ,through the small opening , and a few whistles from the Policemen, we whizzed past them and flew towards Patong !! My heart was in my mouth and i was shivering like a leaf by the time i reached Patong beach , threw the bike in a parking lot , locked it and we ran !! still thinking that they might be chasing us ....
Well nothing like that happened , we had a nice Dinner at Patong ,visited couple of Pubs, walked through the Famous Bangla Road, where the action was happening !!
Bangla Road :
This is another miniature version of the B'lore brigade road , where u have Pubs in both sides of Roads ,with Liveshows, Pole
dancing and what not !!!! truly a revelation for the first time visitors !!Music blaring on both sides ,competing against
each other, it is sure fun and action zone for Stags !!! Bangla road closes traffic at 7pm and out comes the chairs and tables from
the near restaurants and pubs to the road, after that its Chaos !!! man its a sight to see !!
u have pubs for each nationality ,brits,swedish,Aussie's,German's , scottish, u name it , its there !!
By 11.45pm we were tired and decided to hit back to Karon , to call the night off , Gave the key to my wife to drive the bike as i was a little shaky from the last escape ! , slowly we moved towards the place where they was checking going on, and voila !!,, there they stood , on both sides of the road !
I told my wife to park the vehicle somewhere and wait till the fiasco was over , as usual , the female ego in her inflated and was not in a mood to listen, i wonder why they always ooze with so much confident that they think they can get away from anything !! !! all my pleading went to deaf ears and she drove right into their throat !!
We were duly stopped , she tried all the tricks in the book to negotiate ,gave stories, told the cops that the Lic was at hotel, all turned deaf ears !! we were duly issued a Ticket of 300 baht !!
Worse , we had to go the Police station to pay it, comeback , show these guys the receipt , then leave, where on earth am i going to find out where the station was, the young police chap was a nice guy, he draw me a route map in the back of the challan , and was courteous enough to let us off in the bike to the police station and we were off to the Katu Police station !!
Imagine this in Blor'e, we could have easily escaped without going to the police station , take some small galli route and hit home !! i didnt want to take any more risks that day , so off we went searching for the police staion, found it after 30min and went in , behold , what did we see ....
There was a looong Queue of goras standing in queue to pay up , well thats when i breathed a sigh of relief that i was not alone !! and this was rather another organised way of squeezing money out of tourists !! i sat there inside the comfort of a A/c Police station (
) waiting for my turn to payup the fine.
Meanwhile there was another drama unfolding outside the station, i went out and sniffed around and found out that , it was a Arab Teenager ,who took one of the superbikes for a daily rent from Patong beachside and managed to scratch it a little, and the bike guy was asking 50,000.00 baht for damages !!
i was in no mood for any more troubles, so i went back , paid up the fine, went back to the cop , showed him the challan and i was off !! he was courteous enough to tell me that the challan was valid for a day , so that anyone else stops me on the way or tomorrow , i just have to show the ticket !! we reached Karon in no time, parked my bike, hit the room and could not sleep for more than 1hr !! man whatta day or rather night it has turned it to be !!!!!!