Phuket Thailand - A journey beyond Patong; Vlog

Hello everyone, welcome back. It's time to sit back and enjoy another episode of Bloydventures. In my last video I took you to Thailand's capital and largest city, Bangkok. Now I'm heading south to an island with over 36 beaches and 103 unique villages. Take a ride with me as I enjoy the pleasures and warm waters of a place once not long ago severely affected by a tsunami but now has come roaring back to life and home to one of the most famous beaches in all of Thailand, Phuket. If you're new here my name is Floyd and I'm an explorer capturing the world on camera. If you like this video please hit the like button and don't forget to subscribe if you want to see more Floydventures. Phuket is 850 kilometers south of Bangkok. It is Thailand's largest island with breathtaking views of the Andaman Sea. It is only an hour and a half flight so I jumped on a plane and made the journey south. Phuket island is 48 kilometers long and after landing the first order of business was to rent a motorbike so I could explore this amazing island. Some people may tell you that Phuket is a seedy tourist trap with nothing more than go-go bars, massage parlors and souvenir shops. Well they may be right if they spent all of their vacation on Bangla Road at Patong Beach. However if you were able to get outside of the Patong area you will find some amazing beautiful sights that are a world apart from the girly bars and expensive drinks on Bangla Road. Well I just had some breakfast and I went for a little rip on the bike. About six kilometers south of Patong Beach is Keron Beach and I decided to come and check this place out. Look at this beautiful beach. If you like peace and quiet and you're not interested in hanging out in a crowded beach Keron is the place for you. Further south from Keron Beach are two smaller beaches Kata and Katanoi Beach which you can clearly see from the Keron viewpoint a little further south. Another great place to see in Phuket. After the viewpoint I jumped back on my scooter and went for a ride way up a mountain to see the third tallest statue in all of Thailand. The Big Buddha. This 45 meter tall statue adorned with Burmese white marble sits atop Nakhart Hill 400 meters up above sea level with amazing 360 degree views of this beautiful island. Not only is this place free to enter it is also an actual temple where locals come to pay respect worship and receive blessings from local Buddhist monks. If you're monkeying around in Phuket make sure you check out the Big Buddha. Now I'm riding down to grab some lunch and then off to another adventure. Well it's another beautiful day here in the island of Phuket. We're going on an adventure to a place called Paradise Beach. I haven't been there before so hopefully we're going to have an amazing day. The ride to Paradise Beach is about seven kilometers so I'm going to put it in high gear and get you there in 30 seconds. All right we are all set. We've made it to Paradise Beach. okay okay no first time perfect okay thank you very much okay okay thank you so yeah uh the entrance to this uh beach was 100 baht which is three us dollars or four canadian dollars and that includes a beach chair um and a soft drink apparently so that's cool okay i'll take five and hopefully the little minibus will be here in a second and looks like my chariot is right they probably have to go up and turn around or maybe they turn around right here somebody cop hello there how are you today well i'm great i'm going to paradise beach this is it we're gonna go this way okay here we are paradise beach me while flying my drone i spotted another little beach right next to this one found a trail and decided to venture over because you only get so many trips around the sun hey hey hey let me show you how it feels paradise beach is a great peaceful alternative to the top it's not too far but you will need some sort of transportation to get you there a taxi or a tuk-tuk is an option if you don't have your own motorbike speaking of which it's time for me to get back on the road and head north to our next destination i'll just have to get past these vehicles first excuse me guys coming by on the inside okay now we're rolling again as i mentioned we're leaving paradise beach and heading north past petang to surin beach a quiet little community i heard so many good things about so i thought i would go and check it out well i went for a bike ride all the way north from petang and if you can see behind me just another beautiful beach here on the island of phuket there's a little marketplace along the beach i'm full thank you i'll come back as you can see everybody's so friendly here good morning hello uh maybe later okay i had food already hello good morning hi well what a cool little spot to hang out chill away from the busy petang beach if you're ever on the island of phuket i'd say this is another little hidden gem you don't want to miss surin beach well the tide is out might as well go explore the rocks isn't that amazing what a cool little spot oh there we go little exploration on the rocks beautiful hot day here on the beach well the sun is just ripping me up right now so i've got to go put my swim trunks on and go for a dip before that since it's not too windy i think i'll try and get the drone up in there yeah i just love to play in your fun and your games always hungry for more that's just how i was born take me somewhere i don't know your freedom let me two pieces yeah i need it want your pandemonium life is so easy whoa let me two pieces yeah i need it want your pandemonium your freedom pieces yeah i need it want your pandemonium life is so easy you love me two pieces oh i love this place i love this beach so much i didn't want to leave but i'm heading back south on the road to another fantastic viewpoint to watch the sun set into the sea i'm riding down to the southern tip of phuket island where hundreds of people gather every night to worship pray and watch the sunset this instagram hot spot is promtep cape the buddhist shrine at promtep cape is adorned with hundreds of elephants of all sizes buddhists will bring one to the altar as a gift with hopes in return it will bring good fortune as the elephant represents wisdom and strength in thai culture however the main attraction here is the incredible view get here early if you want to get your pick for that perfect selfie to post on facebook because it does get busy at sundown are you starting to see why i love this so much what a perfect day beautiful beaches amazing food warm weather incredible views riding free wind in my face and one epic sunset i can't wait to do it again tomorrow well i think i'm going to end this video here thanks for watching um one of the things that you know that i love to do is watch the sun set into the ocean i'm going to end this video off with some amazing sunset views here in phuket thailand if you like this video please hit the like button and if you haven't already please subscribe to my channel see you in the next video well if you're still watching thanks for sticking around to the end i hope you liked the video if you did please leave a comment down below and as always wherever you are and wherever you go you