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To the left, the pool at the Karon Village hotel.
To the right, a Swedish couple out on the city trip. |
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Sun, the Swedish/Thai tour guide. Grew up in Bofors, Sweden
for 13 years. First Buddhist temple we visited on our trip. |
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Stone elephant. Looks like cemented, but it's actually
chopped out of a concrete block of stone. Japanese girls
praying to Buddha. |
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The group making their way into the temple, barefooted.
A fun stove used for fireworks to scare evil spirits away. There is a
video you can watch, 100 MB long. |
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A beautiful towering spire of a temple, containing 18 kg of
gold, the color of Buddha. Local wood works. |
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The Buddhist monks come in two color. Yellow and brown. The
brown being the most ascetic. Local rubbish removal. |
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Coconut at € 2,20 a nut. Martin is having
his coconut. Picture taken by a group of Korean students enjoying
themselves. |
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World biggest jewelry factor, or so they say. Very similar
to the one Martin visited two
years earlier in Eilat, Israel. Ann, bar girl with best
prices in town. It was free. |
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Three Thai beauties. The girls of this country is really
beautiful. Another stone figure outside a temple. |
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An altar belonging to this Buddhist temple.
Open sewage system outside the temple with the stench to go. |
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Fruit market. The main market in Phuket
City. |
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Impressive entrance to the market. Temple
detail outside the market. |
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Whole families on a scooter. There are a lot of accidents
with scooters as can be imagined. Children's' play bin as
part of the market. |
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A Heineken coming up from one of the local bar maids.
Good price for a copy of designer jeans. € 22,00 is
affordable. |
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Waiting to depart with our bus. Martin is cutting the
waiting time short with a beer. |
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