Sun, sea, sand and spa….( Phuket – From the travel diary )

It takes a little over three hours to get into Phuket from where I live.  Cathay Pacific, Air Asia, Dragon and Thai provide daily flights to this popular tourist destination to the south of  Thailand. While descending into Phuket the Indian Ocean far beneath gleams in the morning sun.I wonder if the sea is a Sapphire blue or an Emerald green with the turquoise dark coral reefs strung in a haphazardly fashion across the length and breadth of the shallower parts of the ocean. Was this the innocent looking stretch of water that caused so much of devastation on boxing day across Indonesia, India, Thailand and a few other countries around the Indian Ocean?  Never underestimate nature’s fury I concluded just a short while before I could hear the tyres of the A320 sliding out to it’s designated place. The runway of Phuket International airport is nestled between the hills and the sea and the air craft smoothly landed  a few metres over the white stripes of the grey strip.