On their way to fetch the backpacks the guys decided to make a quick visit to see the Big Buddha that sits on the highest point on Phuket. An amazing sight it was! A colossal statue of Buddha sitting on a lotus flower completely covered in small white marble tiles. On the way up and down you have to travel through thick tropical jungle on small roads with working elephants eating and resting.
Back at Patong beach we got settled into our room where Jono found what he describes as a butcher knife, hidden behind the TV. Tyron made the mistake of telling Jono it ‘creeped him out big time’ while showing us his goosebumbs. That obviously gave Jono ideas, and soon he was running around the room pretending to hack Tyron like a professional serial killer. The whole thing finally ended with Tyron shouting “I swear to god if you wake me up with that knife tonight I will hit you… And I won’t say sorry.” Haha:P
That night we had pizza for dinner at a place called Roma where they claimed to have a ‘100% Italian chef’. Maja pointed out that we couldn’t know that for sure until we had seen the guy, and surely it was just one of those ‘Asians claims’ but when the chef later walked out looking like Mario and Luigis third brother we knew we were in for a treat. The pizzas where amazing and the panna cotta to die for. We have all been amazed by the amount of westerners working full and part time here in Thailand. Yip, I can see how it can be hard to leave this place. After dinner we sat down at the beach talking. We had read about how seedy Patong is supposed to be, but hadn’t seen much of it yet. The thought had actually just crossed my mind when a young thai girl walked up to us. Since Jono was sitting with his arm around Maja, she went straight for Tyron “Where haave yoou beeen? I beeen looking for yoou!” None of us were quite sure where she was going with this, but just to be on the safe side Tyron just answered bluntly “No thank you.” Then she asked “Do yoou haave smoke for me?” Tyron just shook his head, to which she replied “I smoke your cock”. Then she pulled a tongue at us and walked off.
The next morning we woke up to the sound of rain. That didn’t really bother us too much. We ran down to the beachfront to get some banana pancakes from the food carts, before we went umbrella shopping. The salespeople here are quite intense but still amusing. They get quite creative sitting there all day by their shops, and they shout the most random things after us as we walk past. To Jono: “Hey my brother from another mother!” And then to Maja: “Hey my sister from another mister!” We all have nicknames too. Jono is ‘Shiva’, Maja is ‘Cinderella’ and Tyron goes under the name “Waahoo”(?!). They also like to ask where you are from and they are able to greet you in Norwegian, Afrikaans and Zulu, and even got a ‘Howzit bru’. When the rain stopped we got on the scooters since Jono was determined to take Maja to see the ‘amazing, incredible and fantastic’ big Buddha. We stopped for lunch in Karon before reaching the Buddha at sunset. Back at Patong we got pancakes and takeaway food to eat at the beach. Tyron made Maja sit in between him and Jono this time to confuse the hookers. While we were enjoying our meal we were entertained by glowing paper lanterns which the thai people light from the bottom and then release to fly up towards the sky.
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