World Vision-Patong Beach impressions

Date: Tuesday 28 December: fine weather temperature: 20 ° C ~ 32 °

Stroke: Phuket (Phuket), Kathu Patong Hospital

07: 00 in the morning, wash, breakfast, check-out.

09: 00 Chiang Mai airport.

Take a flight to TG129 Thai Airways, 11: 15 by Chiang Mai flights to Phuket's aircraft, 13: 15 arrival at Phuket Airport. From the airport to the Phra thong haitong roughly 40 minutes, take the airport bus Bt150/person, take a taxi for about Bt600/car.

16: 00 in The Andaman Resortel.

16: 30 to Patong Beach, Phuket are exploring the Chinese citizens.

19: 00 to Kathu Patong Hospital, inquire the information of Chinese citizens casualties.

22: 00 on the day of travel writing.

Costs:

Project specific content costs (B) the required time notes

Transportation Chiang Mai – Phuket 46401 hours 20 minutes

Accommodations The Andaman Resortel1200

Restaurant (breakfast only today) noodle 25

Catering () package airplane meals

Catering (late), grilled shrimp, fried rice with crab meat, bottled water 230

Air ticket agency 385

Phuket Airport transport: Patong Beach (BangLa Rd) 150 airport bus

Laundry 30

Phuket international calling card — — Shanghai 320

Snack 20

Total (B) 7000

Check-in boarding houses: The Andaman Resortel

Hostel address: 171/16-20 Ratch-utit 200 Pee Rd., Patong Beach, Soi Sansabai, Phuket Thailand 83150

Hostel Tel: 6676-294065, 6676-341517, 6676-341728, 6676-341729Fax: 6676-294064

Hostel e-mail: andaman_resortel@hotmail.com

Patong Beach impressions

I think ultimately did not cancel the trip to Phuket, based primarily on the following three reasons:

1. after a disaster, there may be in Phuket tours of China mainland citizens need help because they don't like the citizen travel team can get people and the Chinese Government for instant help.

I could probably go on some busy.

2. even in the absence of the Chinese mainland tours of citizens in Phuket there are casualties, I can also help the Chinese Government on the ground to collect the most direct information.

3, in this life to witness a tsunami scenario also should not give up.

Therefore, in the end I decided to go to Phuket as planned.

Although I had learned from the news, recent today will have a great level of aftershocks. But after all Phuket is far from the epicenter Yes, first tsunami so tragic, because not enough people don't anticipate the occurrence of such circumstances. But now, neither the Government nor the visitors have the most adequate mental preparedness and prevention measures, like the first tsunami events raised by will not be staged again, and now it is the most secure, just run the program can only be canceled.

11: 15 aircraft taking off only by about 20 individuals, because many of the original plans from Chiang Mai to Phuket's European beauty are canceled this Phuket-length, so you can see the effects of the tsunami in Thailand is far-reaching.

13: 15 arrival at the airport, waiting for the airport bus, met an old Germany women, she has been at the airport waiting for two hours, it looked very worried. She waited on her husband and their friend's message, I wish her luck, you can't help what is busy, you can only see themselves from BBC Asia Daily news broadcast message as many told her (the trip seemed to pour a lot of progress in English).

Arrival in Patong Beach, is the immediate scene dumbfounded.

From the moment of the dust, and extensive greenery of invasive. Everywhere the tsunami scour over traces of very miserable. Although I have not experienced a tsunami, but I have been very understanding at that time in tsunami-vortex in people's pain and Purgatory-like experience. Now, I want to quickly find the Bang La Rd. hotel. Settle, I can quickly rushed to the beach, in the hope that in the rescue efforts as much as possible prior to the end some of the information directly.

I met at the beach to all European beauty about the news on the Chinese people, there are some known information told some Chinese people were injured, and now in Kathu Patong Hospital for medical treatment, some people may be dangerous.

Then I press the map indicates the tag, go more than 20 minutes to find the hospital. The way they saw it, holding the card everywhere, I estimate the possible chance of survival are slim. To the hospital, fortunately has only five Chinese citizens are not life threatening, but all go to the Bangkok Phuket Hospital (in Phuket Down, to the airport). Today it was too late, I can only second to rush in the past.

Although experienced a catastrophe, but stay there of Occidental as usual live their glamorous life, who can supply food shop is full of people finding music.

According to my observation, most of Europe and the toursBut those who were injured and missing Occidental is the use of holidays to travel. So, prepare a short stay of people not in the hospital stay with relatives and friends, just ahead of home, or we may have already disappeared or died. But those who live a materialistic person may already be old land here, how about also flooded the tsunami did not die of these old slippery.

I don't know what the other beaches, but majority of Patong Beach area is in ruins.

Bought insurance of up to two tone loss sigh a season. Not to buy insurance, and that is despite its sympathy, changed hands in front of the resort.

Today's visit will be one paragraph, can now be a little time to feel the Patong Beach.

The street is filled with a smell of the sea, just not yet foul smell, but I believe that with the scene clean-up work of in-depth, sooner or later have the smell. I like Patong Beach, but I don't like the people here, may be here already too commercialized. Whether it is done eating, or taxi, have already lost Thailand exultation, leaving only the head of money. I wish the tsunami not only makes the Southeast Asian Governments to think about some of the issues, and also hope that the people here also provoking some problems. Now realized that the taxi driver, taxi driver is too cute. Regardless of the Shanghai taxi drivers do not following things, as long as you hold the invoice, you can solve the problem. Here, you'll be pain "AZ", you have a complaint, because you have neither the ticket, and they are your own. Therefore, you can only own balance of mind. Well in my other everything except buses refused, traveling, pack a Taxi (Bt1000/4 hours, more than their price to pay. Is my living hotel booking) you can make your tour more than half of the Phuket Island (means tourism region).

At the same time, there are no snack prices.

Compared to Thailand in Chiang Mai, Les, Sukhothai, Bangkok, Thailand here on the mentality of many indeed to fickleness. Other local snack, master in his car on the price label please clear Chu, although not understand Thai, but at least you know how much they should pay. In Patong Beach, it depends on your luck. It happened that you know or that of the booth is calm, then you will pay a reasonable price, or "AZ" you didn't discuss. In fact, in Thailand's Phuket is not appropriate for a short period of time, travel tours of special expensive, very few public transport. Although living facilities are for the convenience, but costs are high, always let "mix" of "corruption" again and again. Also, here really embodies the essence of erotic Thailand tour (like Pattaya or not to go there). Come, I will follow the mission to tourism, but never lived in Patong Beach here.

If you strongly want to Phuket tours, I can give you a more reasonable recommendation: to put themselves in the southernmost tip of Phuket Island and enjoy the sea and Sun, and don't want to go to another beach tour (in fact, the same), looking for a quiet beach and have a good rest.

And so decided to leave before, you can in the hotel booking a TAXI for the islands of the Northern Peninsula around Phuket (Bt1000/4 hours), and finally allow scheduled TAXI directly take you to the airport. This arrangement, which let you browse the status of the other beaches, but also saves you the cost of going to the airport, two birds with one stone.