karon beach.

we stayed in karon beach on phuket. i guess, from what i gathered while i was there, it was one of the nicer areas of phuket. it was clean and not too crowded, which was nice. however, it was populated exclusively by european tourists. more specifically, it was jammed with german and swedish tourists. by my count, there are probably around 50,000 people in sweeden right now (the other 9,950,000 are in southern thailand). also, i thought swedes had some class about them. (i was wrong). simon and i criticized paul for inviting his "extended family" on our spring break trip.


karon is like a 10 minute taxi ride from patong beach, which, i guess, is like the main town in phuket. it's also the center of the tourism and nightlife scenes. as such, we found ourselves in patong most nights, frequently at "banana," some sort of euro-inspired thai disco aimed at foreigners.


unlike karon, patong was dirty and smelly and we all hated it. but we kept going back. it was easy i guess.


(in swedish) paul conned two danish girls into taking the picture below. that was supposed to be the "icebreaker." i'll let you guess how successful that was.