It was raining buckets when we left Phuket.  Our hotel took us down to the bottom of the hill because the minibus we had booked couldn’t make it up the hill.  We felt like we were back in Central America.  The bus went around picking up people from all over the city before finally departing, packed to the gills.  A few locals got dropped off along the way so we got some breathing room before finally arriving in Don Sak to take the ferry out to our next island adventure.  Unfortunately, this would be one of the the absolute worst experiences of our entire trip, and hopefully we never have to go through something like this ever again.  A word of warning though…If you’re eating lunch or something, don’t click the jump ahead button…

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