Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
Our second place of stay for Phuket Dec 2017 is situated at the eastern side of the island – the opposite and western side of the island is where Patong and party creatures would gravitate towards. The eastern side doesn’t
We finished The UpsideDown House, maze and tree house in less than an hour – as Ling quips, a pretty expensive 1,420THB/SGD 58 thrill where we would also have no absolute certainty that the pictures are any good until we
Our original pre-departure itinerary for Day 7 was centered around the Rawai area of Phuket: with a visit to Rawai Park in the morning, the beach in the early afternoon, and Phuket Seashell Museum for the rest of the day.
Even without kids, neither the wife nor myself are party animals, instead preferring very sedate leisure activities like gardening/baking/cooking for the wife, and photography/music/computing for myself. Still, and largely out of curiosity to see what the fuss is about, we
I’ll do a post on the places we dined at the end of our trip. But generally speaking, the eateries and restaurants’ menu prices around Cassia Phuket are a lot higher than those around Phuket Old Town so far. The
We haven’t been to the Trick Eye Museum situated at Resorts World Sentosa yet, so figured that we could just as well make do with the Phuket equivalent of that. The museum is a convenient five minute walk away from
There are a lot of places to stay while on Phuket island. Though now that we’ve spent five days on the island now at our first place of stay – Cassia Phuket – we’re again reminded that the general area
It’s been almost exactly a year since we checked out Wild Wild Wet @ Downtown East. The memories of our experience at the park still remained pretty fresh, which made comparisons between that and Phuket’s Splash Water Jungle Park inevitable.
Many of us would have seen elephants before, whether it’s at a zoo or at animal shows in this part of the world – but unlikely in a setting like this. We visited Phuket Elephant Sanctuary (PES) on Day 3,
When Ling and I were last in Phuket 8 years ago, we joined Simba Sea Trips for island hopping around Phang Nga bay. During that trip, I remembered observing several boats bringing visitors to kayak about the various limestone caves
One of the most commonly heard criticisms of Phuket as a holiday location is that large parts of the island have been overly commercialized to cash in on the tourism boom, with beaches that were once famous for their serenity
One of the best things about living in Singapore is that our little island acts as a springboard hub to a lot of interesting places in the region. In fact, as our Ang Mo friend will attest, we encourage visitors
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