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March 5th 2011
Published: May 5th 2011
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We woke up and headed out to find a place to have breakfast.
After sitting down I realized we were at the first place dad and i ever stayed at on koh san road. It hasn't changed. After breaky we headed for a walk and found a map. As we were walking we ran into a lovely gentleman that told us that this week is fashion week, and the government is offering tuk tuk drivers paid for gas, so to tour around is really cheap. We grabbed a tuk tuk for 20 baht (under a dollar) and he took us to numerous sites. The tuk tuk driver started stopping at travel angencies and suit shops which we believe give him a fee for bringing us there. After the 3rd time we told him we didnt want to stop at any more tourism offices. He dropped us off at a Wat, and when we were finished he was no where to be seen. He had taken off. Luckily we hadn't paid him yet... We walked around in hopes to figure out where we were located, and a nice man pointed us in the direction of ko san road. we were only a couple blocks away.

After that episode we became adventurous and took the bus to MBK mall. We have no idea how the fares work on the bus as we didn't end up paying anything.... and i luckily recognized the stairwell so we jumped off and found ourselves in the correct spot. Yay me!! Tris didn't believe me when I told him the mall was HUGE. Take Market mall, double the size and make it 8 floors high. Its HUGE! Each floor specializes in something. One floor is all cell phones, one is all clothing, one is all furniture etc. You get the idea.

We took a taxi back to our guest house. We've walked by the fish pedicure place a few times and decided to stop and give it a try. It was the weirdest feeling. These fish are bottom feeders and feed off your dead skin. At first it tickled, then it felt as if your feet went numb in a way.

Once we were done with the fish, we had 1 hr foot massages. After relaxing we walked around, grabbed some dinner, and bought some bug spray as we are on our way to Ko Samet tomorrow morning., which we were told at one of the tourist offices we were dropped off at , that is calling for rain. Oh well.





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