{"id":24887,"date":"2017-08-04T07:32:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T23:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=24887"},"modified":"2017-08-04T10:04:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T02:04:05","slug":"phuket-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2017\/08\/04\/phuket-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Phuket 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The travel bug bit us right after we returned from our 11 Day trip to Western Australia in June. As soon as I was able to straighten out a possible period of travel in December against work commitments, we next had to decide where to go.<\/p>\n<p>A 10 day Taiwan trip was on the top of the list on account of its very cool weather at year&#8217;s end, and also that Ling has never been there before. Taiwan is of course one of the best all-round places to visit on account of its sheer variety of sights in a fairly compact island, a very developed infrastructural and transportation system to get around the island, language isn&#8217;t as large a barrier as say South Korea or Japan, and finally it&#8217;s also slightly less costly than a vacation in either country too. An early version of the itinerary would have seen us doing traveling around the island to take in natural sights &#8211; and that was when we realized that our two kids would likely not enjoy the itinerary, as it would be bereft of amusement parks, farms, and children-centered activities.<\/p>\n<p>So, it was back to the drawing board midweek on where to go, and we decided on Phuket. Not a particularly inspired choice, and both Ling and myself have been to the island &#8211; our last trip from almost 10 years ago blogged here too. However, the island seems to have experienced quite a bit of development over the last decade, and specifically in the new inclusion of child-friendly places of interest &#8211; including theme and water parks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24889\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/phuket2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/phuket2017.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/phuket2017-270x180.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/phuket2017-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/phuket2017-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A flight-booking confirmed, and we&#8217;re set for a 8 day trip to the island. More details to come next; starting with accommodation options, and also itineraries!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The travel bug bit us right after we returned from our 11 Day trip to Western Australia in June. As soon as I was able to straighten out a possible period of travel in December against work commitments, we next<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2017\/08\/04\/phuket-2017\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Phuket 2017<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[601],"class_list":["post-24887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traveling","tag-phuket-2017","wpcat-17-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/phuket2017.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}