Hello. Would you like massage?
Yes please.
After our short hiatus to Cambodia we flew back to Bangkok and then down to Phuket, which is a pretty popular place with the tourists and the place where I found my most favorite thing about Thailand.
Thai massage.
For only $12 I got to enjoy one hour of serious kneading, pounding, and pulling…on the beach no less.
This is the beach (Mai Khao) right near our hotel.
My other favorite thing about Thailand is the elephants. They are a symbol of good luck. It’s also sort of coincidental that the country of Thailand is shaped a little bit like an elephant too.
While in Phuket we we would see a man with a small elephant on the beach. You could pay to ride the elephant or just watch him go for a swim, which is what we did. It was pretty amazing to see this huge creature rolling around in the waves like a little kid.
Who knew elephants were such good swimmers?
