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That I set my foot on Phuket soll!

Incredible, how time flies! It was a different situation then, it was my honeymoon!

But like everywhere things changed a lot!

Patong was full of sand, there was no real road, and of course very few cars! There was a place, where an elephant was kept, an eatery, and he was walking quite some times ont the street, sandroad!

There were allready girliebars, but I didn't visit, you will understand why!

There were of course roads in Phuket, but not everywhere. In Kata there was allready the Club Med, but all around it was....desert! Kata was just a small village you drove through to go to the beach, not much developpement there!

Karon, was more developped, more hotels allready on the beachroad, but I think no girlie-bars!

We stayed, at the dusit Lagona, it was the ONLY hotel at Ban Tao! It felt like paredise! All the personel was dressed traditional style! We had a service, we never had in our live! Only bad thing was, the tin-mines boats were not chased yet, and those boats were almost in front of the hotel, making swimming impossible and making quit some noise even at night.

Beside the hotel was a kinda of moma's kitchen, just on the sand. They had 2 monkeys, Charly and ? They also rented cars! Nice people, they have proberly been chased, for the bigger Laguna!

The island was not crowded at all, but you felt that things started to get developped! Posters from new hotels to be announced everywhere.

Phuket-town was a relatively quiet little town.

Now you can say that 15 years ago Phuket was nicer and it was, but I think....you all would be have bored!

I wonder if others knew Phuket, that long ago....