{"id":11775,"date":"2024-03-01T23:59:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T10:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/?p=11775"},"modified":"2024-08-26T11:42:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T23:42:30","slug":"thailand-day-1-christchurch-to-phuket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/2024\/03\/thailand-day-1-christchurch-to-phuket\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand Day 1 – Christchurch to Phuket"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just before the whole COVID madness I bought an underwater housing for my camera. which I intended to use during a diving holiday in Thailand but alas, it all had to be postponed. The time has however finally come, I’m going back to Phuket! It’s an early rise to fly – unfortunately – with Qantas, here I’m waiting for the ckeck-in<\/p><\/div>\n

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Christchurch airport only has a few shops, there isn’t much to do<\/p><\/div>\n

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But hey! What’s that!? For weeks I’ve been trying to get my hands on this bad boy<\/a> but it wasn’t available anywhere! But here, at the airport they sell it. Madness! So I bought it<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sydney Airport, everything is stupidly expensive here<\/p><\/div>\n

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My connecting flight to Bangkok is in 3 hours, that’s a long time to wait at this rather boring airport, it’s definitely not Changi here<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bangkok Airport, looking a lot nicer here<\/p><\/div>\n

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But here too I have to wait over 3 hours, at least I got the chance to give my WISE<\/a> card a try, it worked, I can definitely recommend it when going abroad<\/p><\/div>\n

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I was killing time by visiting shops at the airport here and came across this beauty… Seriously, who names these things?<\/p><\/div>\n

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Finally, I’ve landed at Phuket Airport, for the first time I have booked accomodation using booking.com, it earned me a free taxi from the airport, nice! I wasn’t sure if it all would work out but lo and behold: I’m expected!<\/p><\/div>\n

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It takes another 30 minutes or so of waiting in this hot humid place before a bunch of us get directed to a minivan that takes us to our destination, which is Patong for me this time<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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