We arrived in Patong Beach for the first night and hit the town to drink, spending most of the night paying "spot-the-ladyboy"... which is a LOT harder than I thought it would be! Some of them look exactly like girls, and dance better and have better bodies than most girls.
Spent the next two nights on Phi-Phi Island, a beautiful place with crystal clear waters, awesome snorkeling, no roads....and a 7-eleven and a Holiday Inn. Yes, it's overrun with tourists, but it is still one of the most beautiful places in the world.
The hotel I stayed at was called the Phi Phi Princess, and each room is a separate bungalow with its own porch, our own pregnant black cat that lived underneath our room, and a stone footbath at the entrance. In heaven, we will all have private bunglows with footbaths at the entrance.
We got massages every single day, drank astounding amounts of papaya lassi (papaya yogurt shakes) and ate like, well, Americans. Our second night on the Island, there was a half-moon party on the beach. We drank alcohol from buckets and watched firedancers and met some really cool young travelers.
There's one main road in the island that we kept walking in and out of, and a fruit-shake place we visited every day where the owner's little daughter would drag her tricycle around in front of the stand and eye us warily while we were waiting for our order. Two doors down was an art gallery where the painters were always hard at work out front, and their huge cat was always fast asleep in one of two positions, head on the paws or curled up in a ball. I never saw it move even once, and when I walked up to scratch it behind the ears, it would only deign to open one eye--ah, island life.
I'm in Taipei right now, and will return home on two short days.
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