The following morning, Jaden woke up and complained not feeling well. He felt like vomiting. Oh no … it was only the 2nd day of our holiday!

At breakfast, Jaden did not have the appetite to eat. I brought him back to the hotel while Hubby and Jared continued with their breakfast. Luckily, after a while, Jaden felt better and ate a banana. It was just in time when the taxi driver dressed in tour guide uniform came and pick us up from the hotel at 10am.

Our first stop was at Big Buddha Phuket. This huge image sits on top of the Nakkerd Hills between Chalong and Kata and at 45 metres high it is easily seen from far away. There’s no entrance fee to view this giant Buddha. 

Big Buddha Phuket

During our visit, there were workers polishing the giant Buddha which was layered with beautiful white Burmese marble. I prayed for the safety of workers who climbed so high up to polish the giant Buddha.

Our next stop was Elephant Trekking. Hubby and Jared had this 30 minutes experience of elephant trekking along jungle path and saw snake crawling. Jaden and I waited at this coffee shop with panoramic sea view.

Elephant Trekking

We paid THB800 for adult and THB500 for kid. It was a little pricey but the owner told us that his elephants eat a lot and need the money to feed those elephants.

Our 3rd stop was to watch monkey show. The ticket prices were THB500 for adult and THB300 for kid, with a total of THB1,600 for the 4 of us for a 30 minutes show. This was really pricey especially this monkey show was held at a very simple set up and casual way. Even the MC was carrying her baby as she talked. They agreed to waive the entrance fee for Jaden.

Before we enter to watch the show, they asked us to take family photo with a monkey. We did and at the end of the show, they showed us the photo with the monkey resting his arm on Hubby’s leg. We quite like the photo and paid THB200 for it … knew this would happen.

Monkey Show

The monkeys were very clever and mischievous too. They did quite a number of stunts inclusive of cycling, push ups, played basketball, etc. It was an entertaining and relax show especially for the kids.

After the monkey show, it was already past 12pm. It was time for lunch and the taxi driver suggested to take us for seafood lunch at this PhongPhang Seafood Restaurant with sea view.

Seafood Lunch

We ordered mango kerabu, fried calamari, fried chicken and baked lobster. We like Thai beer and it was so refreshing to have it with seafood and chill out at this restaurant with sea view (though the view was nothing great). Our lunch cost us THB2,735. Luckily we had enough Baht as the restaurant charge surcharge of 5% if pay via credit card.

After lunch, our 5th stop was at stopped at Cashew Nut factory, known as Sri Bhurapa Orchid. We bought different varieties of cashew nut and coconuts chips.

Thailand’s famous cashew nuts and coconut chips

Thereafter, we adjourned to Wat Chalong. “Wat” means Buddhist Temple.

Wat Chalong

There was no entrance fee to this Wat Chalong. The deepest impression about this place was the sound of firecrackers with people hanging strings of Chinese firecrackers in beehive-shaped “ovens” near the wat’s sermon hall, then igniting them. People do this to show gratitude for prayers that have been answered.

We left Wat Chalong about 2.30pm and our 7th stop was at Promthep Cape. This was not in our plan but the taxi driver recommended it to us as a Must Visit place in Phuket. Before we walked up the slope, we had a break and had ice-cream.

Promthep Cape

The taxi driver was right. The view from the cape was stunning and like a huge eternity pool. This place is famous for its sunset view. We were at this cape at 3pm+ and Jaden was too tired to stay till evening to watch sunset.

On the way back to hotel, we had a brief 8th stop at Karon View Point (previously known as Kata View Point).

Karon View Point

We felt so comfortable in the taxi with nice air-con and did not feel like getting out to the hot weather. Only Hubby went up to have a look of the view of 3 beaches ie Kata Noi, Kata Yai and Karon beaches.

All I wanted by then was a good foot reflexology. Before the taxi sent us back to the hotel, I asked the taxi driver to stop at Oriental Massage, which was located not far from our hotel. Jared came along with me. We had an hour of foot reflexology and paid THB600 for the 2 of us. Jared felt asleep and he was so tired that I could not wake him up after the massage session.

Finally, the taxi driver dropped Hubby and Jaden back to the hotel. The taxi driver charged us THB1,000 for showing us around Phuket from 10am to 4pm with a total of 9 stops. It was a good Phuket City Tour to all these attraction places and we were glad that it was not raining on that day though earlier weather forecasted that it was thunderstorm.