I have always preferred window seat whenever i took the plane but as i am too cheapo nowadays; i don't pay to indicate my seat and that means it's usually a pray-hard-to-get-a-window-seat scenario.
Therefore, i was pissed to be given a seat with noticeable, black scratches on the window pane, when i travel back from Phuket to Singapore earlier this year, since i paid for it to be seated next to my dad!
There's nothing i can do about it and the auto-focus function on my Nikon D7000 did a pretty good job in blurring out the scratches so that i can take a few photos of the land view below us.
Hey, that's quite a familiar sight!
I excitedly pointed out to my dad and asked him to guess! We actually visited the islands on day two of my our 5-day Phuket trip as part of the James Bond Island Tour (Speedboat) by Amazing Canoeing which includes stopovers at Panak, Panyee, Hong and Naka Islands!
Look at those speedboats travelling towards their directions. If i am not wrong, the long island closest to us in the above photo is Panak Island.
From google map, i think the two pictures above were of Koh Yao Yai; a relatively large island in between Phuket and Krabi. You may read more about it here although my gut feel tells me it appears to be boring and even the beaches didn't look half as spectacular as what you can see in the next island we flew past.
Its iconic shape gave it away and it was actually in the news this year for the closure of a bay that had suffered extensive environmental damage due to its popularity; Phi Phi Islands, which i visited in 2011.
The main island wasn't affected by the closure as Maya Bay, made famous by the movie, The Beach, starring Leonardo Dicarpio, is located on another island known as Ko Phi Phi Leh.
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What else did i do in Phuket?
Check out my 5-day Phuket itinerary here!
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