Noni went to see his family up north for a couple weeks. Miss him in our trio, but with only a few weekends left on Phuket island, Jason and I decided to adventure without him. (Avengers – 1)
Jason has a car so he drove and I rode in comfort to visit what he called ‘Monkey Temple’. We downloaded the necessary app to exit and re-enter the island, but didn’t need to show it either way which was nice. Traffic off the island was a breeze. Very few cars travelling.
Phuket has had zero cases of Covid now for 28 days straight. We are still waiting to hear if they will open up the international flights on July 1 as anticipated. But even if they do, tourists will not be allowed back into Phuket until September soonest and travelling anywhere outside of Thailand will require a mandatory 2 week isolation.
When we arrived at the temple, there is no way I would have known to stop here. It just looked like woods with a lot of animals being fed by tourists. I refused to take part, but tried to capture the chaos of the birds while Jason took his turn to feed them.
It was totally worth the trip to see this! It reminded me of the tunnels Sedona and I found when in Chiang Mai that had gold buddhas in their alcoves but this place was on a much larger scale.
After this we headed to see a waterfall but the road was blocked off noting the park was still closed due to Covid. I don’t believe that it should be, but in Thailand, they may not have made any sort of effort to take down the sign or lift the gate yet. I noticed on some of the beaches, they still had their closed Covid signs up. People just walked past knowing the ban was lifted.
Tonya Takes Thailand 