holiday in Thailand can be one of the best in your life. What you need to do, learned correspondent Doctor Travel, went to the resort at Laguna Phuket ».

Life in Ayurveda

I'm sitting at a table Banyan Tree SPA Cafe and fill in the questionnaire. Probably by this is weird - instead of enjoying the beauty of Thai nature and meditate on the blue pool water and the green garden, to bother with notes. But nothing can be done - to order in this cafe right food (ie food, which is perfect for you), you need to know your Ayurvedic type. Dishes on the menu are divided into proposals for a "pitta", "Watts" and "kapha", and even cocktails from fresh fruit and vegetables to order without the approval of Joey Abraham, an Indian doctor from Kerala, who is responsible to the Banyan Tree SPA Phuket for Ayurvedic aspect scary - what if it will choose not? So I sigh, take my pencil and try to adequately evaluate itself. Like most girls, imagining that they are overweight, decide on the form to celebrate its constitution as "a large».
- Write the "average" - says Dr. Abraham , podsmotrevshy time over which point I zanoshu pencil.
overcame a questionnaire and making sure that I am a "Pitta" with a large admixture of "watts", choose the SPA-lunch (a salad of lotus root with fresh mint, mango and coriander grilled shrimp with peas and sauce of parsley and horseradish, as well as detox cocktail of freshly squeezed juices of apple, orange, carrot and ginger).
- Hungry to go to the procedure is not worth it - explains Dr. Abraham. - Two hour massage and body wraps on an empty stomach - not the best idea. Gentle SPA-lunch - the perfect option.
Advice on nutrition and lifestyle the doctor is for each client and send to e-mail. I recommend grapefruit, mango, basmati rice, mint and basil, white eggs, unsweetened yogurt, as well as the early rise (two hours before sunrise) and daily meditation. Frankly, the last two items I never overcame.

SPA-Romance

It seems that here, in the Banyan Tree SPA, that the resort of Laguna Phuket, everything is left to chance. Menu in the cafe - its for each "dosha". Garden planted so that view of it from the main entrance looked perfect vision. SPA-houses, which conducted the rituals of beauty, reminiscent of a designer dream, dreaming about vacation: a shower in the open air, which leads from the hot sun path of stones, huge bath-tub in a small garden and therapists for the two hours that goes SPA Session, manage to remove all the unpleasant sensation of pain in the body. Ritual of The Master Therapist Experience (4,900 baht, one Thai baht is approximately equal to one ruble) - a unique SPA-experience. Before the session, the therapist talks to you about your concerns and wishes. Where it hurts, to complain that there are any contraindications, a power massage you like what you want to pay special attention. And then the next two hours of pure happiness: peeling, with alternation of different techniques and body mask, during which it is impossible not to fall asleep. Woke me up a gentle ringing of a bell - it turned out that it was time to take a bath in the garden, waiting for the sea foam scented with rose petals and tea with dried fruit for the birds singing.

About bread ...

Thai spicy soup that wells can be called one of the local attractions, a kind of gastronomic must have. Those who try this scorching spicy concoction for the first time, blush, they smoke and thirsty. Drug addiction comes on the second approach - personally, I eat what pits every day, while she was in Thailand, and keep it there on his return to Moscow. And not to rush to Moscow's restaurants in search of the authentic version, during a vacation in Thailand is to go on a culinary master class for the preparation of that pit, and some other local dishes. In particular, the Laguna Phuket resort of such class will be held in the Ruen Thai - restaurant Dusit Thani Laguna Phuket, and Rim Talay - an institution with a traditional Thai cuisine Hotel Laguna Beach Resort.
Lesson is about. For the money you get a lot of fun: The chef with assistants will teach you to cook four dishes (soup Tom Yam, salad, meat and dessert), will talk about what ingredients are needed, will award certificates - the certificate that you passed the class and a booklet with recipes for which you prepared. And then you will be left alone with your creations - and you can eat!

... And spectacles

; Bezvylazno a holiday in the Thai SPA, restaurants and the beach - it's beautiful, but it is a utopian idea. Too many temptations around. Descriptions of tours, excursions and entertainment that offers Laguna Phuket, - this is a decent-sized booklet, more like a glossy magazine. Look at the pictures and you want everything at once: to go on a boat for a day on the island of Phi Phi Islands, where you will have to wait for snorkelling on beautiful coral reefs, a picnic on a deserted beach with white sand, splashing in the azure water. Or adventure Ride, Row and Off Road: first you go riding on an elephant through the jungle and rubber plantations, then raft down the river mangrove, see how to grow fish, then taste the dishes of Thai cuisine in a floating restaurant, a night drive on the ATV in a tropical garden .
Another favorite tourist place - show Phuket FantaSea (ticket price - 1,500 baht per person). Before showing you have to put into wardrobe cameras and mobile phones (to shoot during the show can not), but the spectacle is worth it: costume show with hundreds of artists, a couple dozen elephants on the stage, air acrobats, singing, dancing, military battles and special effects makes a strong impression . Almost as strong as a small elephant feeding breakfast in Laguna Beach Resort: he (or rather, she) takes with your palm meal, and then the trunk smacking you on the cheek. Inexpressible. Touching. Exotic.


Author: Svetlana Feoktistova