Blog-nation,
This morning our intrepid team headed into nearby Phuket Town (after some intense negotiations with our driver in his blinged out SUV). We were initially disappointed because we had hoped to hike up to the Buddha you see in the pictures below, but our driver told us we couldn't do that -- so we said just drop us off in town.
We wandered around, got some coffee, were generally feeling sorry for ourselves until some genius (J.B.) read in the Lonely Planet that there was nearby hill from which you could see all of Phuket Town and the nearby bay (that our villa is on). Encouraged, we headed off through Old Town Phuket, with its various pastel colored two story buildings wrapped in intricate molding. We started ascending up a hill, where the guidebook had ominously talked about "beware of the packs of snarling dogs" (although we saw zero dogs) -- the road was basically a series of ascending hairpin turns. Then to our left we saw a slightly overgrown concrete set of stairs going up into the woods. Susanna led us onward. Just when we though we had hit a dead end, we heard the sweet sounds of lite FM radio (Everly Brothers... they cannot get enough of cheezy light FM radio stuff here in Thailand... "It's NOT cheezy" protests Susanna) and further ahead we noticed a deck. We had found a restaurant at the top of the hill. We enjoyed beer and fruit smoothies and immediately made reservations there for dinner on Tuesday night. Here are some pics from the top:
We ventured back down into town and wandered around for a while until we finally took a taxi back to the villa, lounging by the pool for the rest of the afternoon with our beer, our books, and a very interesting family we have befriended (their story is somewhat unique but we're concerned about including it here because we're worried about potential repurcussions-- ask us about it when you see us -- or they might just be a normal rich travelling family in "finance" and we've just made the rest up-- who knows?).
Just to rub it in... here's the view from our bathroom:
And here's the view from our bedroom:
The sunset was again... BREATHTAKING.
This is how Susanna rolls at sunset:
And this is how the sunset rolls at sunset:
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