Flight time: 1 hour || Distance: Bangkok --> Phuket - 460 miles || Locations: Yanui Beach, Rawai Beach, and Palm Village. 
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Phuket wasn't for me. If spaghetti is served on the menu at most restaurants, I'm out. I had gone in search of small fishing villages rich with generations of Thai tradition to draw from. Man, did I not do my research. Over time, everything local had been pushed inland by the rising cost of rent, food, and real-estate. Foreigners were moving in - opening restaurants at cents on the dollar - and driving restaurants that had been their for generations out of town. Now, American-owned New York Burgers thrives on main street. 
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Because I had no intention of staying anywhere near the beach town my hostel was in - I rented a bike with a few friends from Nova Scotia, and headed to the south of the island. It was there I heard there were some small villages and locals beaches still left to explore. 
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-I must say, it was quite beautiful. White sandy beaches dotted with palm trees bordered lines of bobbing fishing boats in the turquoise Andaman Sea. We stumbled up an oasis tucked away in the crevasse of a mountainside. Only locals here. And it was here that I stayed for three days. A vacation within a vacation. Didn't take many photos: