16 July 2011
July 5, 2011 (Krabi Town – Patong – Phuket Town)
Last night was tiring, so we got up a little late. Anyway, the next travel was at 11. So we still had time. Gemma and Jenny also checked out at the same day with us. Lucky were the last 3 girls in the room who were less cooperative to us. We’re all leaving…
We had another van transfer at ‘I don’t know’ place. Yeah rite…
And guess what, after the transfer, we got the same driver as one who brought us to Krabi 2 days before. And he remembered us (and gave candies to me and Ejin, hehe)! What a small world!
The driver took us to Jungceylon, the mall at Patong. Ejin and I were hungry and wanted to eat, but all of us just simply needed a place to put our heavy rucksacks a.k.a. ‘karung beras’. Thanks to a local lady stranger who suddenly greeted us and showed us direction to a place that we need. She said she would stay at the pointed spot, but later on, she’s not there when we looked for her. Hmm…an angel?
Next are the most stupid scenes. First, we did ‘leyeh-leyeh’ again at Patong with our rucksacks (Ejin said hers was Karung Beras) and shoes while everyone else wearing bikini. Second, we were played by the tuktuk driver while waiting for the bus to Town. The travel and tuktuk driver said “there is until 6”, but the locals across the street said “no more. It’s finished at 5”. This different information made us cross the street back and forth from the tuktuk station to the bus stop and vice versa, until finally, third, we decided to take the tuktuk even though the price was much higher. And then, the bus we waited for came when we’re in the middle of bargaining and we couldn’t stop it. So actually we found the bus, but were left in a couple of seconds.
No more choice. We must get the tuk tuk. Luckily, the last driver was easy. Put Tika as the front lady and let her bargain with ‘pleeeaseee’. In just a second, the driver said okay to our bargain…and we regretted why we didn’t ask for lower price before. Yeaaah, we’re ladieesss =P
At last, we arrived at Phuket Backpacker hostel. This was not the coolest hostel, but we got an upgrade to a private room. And we booked an exclusive Phi-phi islands tour in 50% off price. God bless us! Haha!
