THAILAND | PHUKET PART 01

Your stomach convolutes into a ball of nervousness mixed with excitement mixed with lets-jump-out-of-the-seat feeling. Your head is pressed against the airplane window trying to take in every inch of this new land that you've been dreaming about for months. And your heart is just about ready to burst thinking about how the next ten days are going to be. That feels just about awesome! Right? Walking on sandy beaches, the inner child in you dreaming of making sandcastles, and driving up and down the city eyes scanning every nook and corner -- I'm not quite sure if I'd ever be able to sum up this adventure in a few lines.

We landed in Phuket in the early hours of the morning and drove through the city just as the sun said hello. Our home for the next five days was a little odd-ball called The Album Loft and though its name had been throughly mis-pronounced and mis-understood by many people there, it was just the right amount of perfect. Walking into the lobby and being greeted by happy looking faces and a quirky orange television is what everyone hopes for when they travel right? And those night's when we came back tired from walking around Bangla Road (Phuket's notorious night-life destination) at 1 in the night, we were glad that it was at walking distance!

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Thailand, as someone had rightly told me, is a place of walking discovery. You walk around and bump into adventures and experiences that you never thought you would. Eyes gleaming at the sight of night markets overflowing with food, people, street dancers, clothes and other curios. Not to mention the Banana Nutella pancakes that gave us happiness every single day! 

At nights, you'd see us walking around the streets of Phuket, getting overwhelmed by all the colours and the music. Like kids, fascinated, we'd stare at things that made no sense to us and want things that we'd never seen before. At Bangla Road, we'd loose all inhibitions and walk around deciding which bar was the safest amongst them all. A bit of reggae and a whole lot of cute boy later…I know it was the right place to go!

Sitting on the edge of a cliff, still waters ahead of you while you say good bye to the setting sun… That unexplainable feeling of serenity is hard to miss at the most famous point in Phuket called The Promthep Cape. Loud with tourists and silent in its sense, i imagined myself sitting at the edge for hours on end, watching the sun slowly get engulfed by the waters.

There is a lot more to come, and as i narrowed down the 400 or so pictures i had taken...i realised i'd never be able to fit all of this in one post! So be patient dear readers!