Phuket Island, Thailand 29th March - 13th April (By Ella)

After all the practice, we can pack our bags quickly and it was only a short flight from Bangkok to Phuket Island. We stayed at two places on Phuket. The first was for eight nights near Bang Tao Beach which is about 20 minutes north of Pataya. It was a great apartment & we spent most of the time at the pool, beach and doing school work. Mum and Dad made some friends from Weymouth in the UK.

Bang Tao Beach:

Baan Puri Apartments:

Doing our school work

Smudge the cat

We celebrated Anna's
birthday on Easter Sunday!

Snorkelling trip:
We had a longboat trip to a small island which we snorkelled around & fed lots of hungry fish.

Surin Beach (Our favourite beach so far):

We then moved to the South of the island and stayed for 7 nights near Rawai Beach.

 Babylon Pool Villas:

Our apartment was the ground floor one next to the pool :)

Jango was a Pomeranian dog which lived in a nearby shop:

Big Buddha:
Big Buddha is 92m high and 63m wide. It was made by local donations (10 million Aussie dollars) and is the 9th tallest Buddha in the world.

The Big Buddha

Anna getting blessed by a monk

Sunset near Buddha

We bought & wrote on at tile that will
be fixed to the wall of the Buddha

Anna playing with the local children on Rawai pier:

Song Kran:
Song Kran is a MASSIVE water fight and lasts for 3 days. Song Kran is a Buddhist tradition & the water symbolises the washing away of evil It was lots of fun and we got very wet, many times.