Blogs from Southern Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 3

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Wednesday 22nd February Woke after a fitful sleep. Temperatures feel a lot hotter than normal, with humidity levels also increased. Not much of an agenda today, we are on our wind-down for Monday's journey back to Cyprus. We do, however, need to visit the Bangkok Bank for some pocket-money. Tomorrow we are off fishing again to Hua Hin, and we have also booked a special Sea Bass Dinner locally here in Khao Khalek. The Bank is on the high street in Pak Nam Pran, a mere mile away, so we ditch the car and opt for bicycles. The breeze we create as we ride along is hot and dry, and also today, there is a noticeable head wind, so an easy decision not to do a 12-miler like yesterday. Banking done, we return via the beach ... read more

Tuesday 21st February Another glorious Day and we push ourselves to get active! So, we were off by 10.30am for a 6 mile cycle ride from Pak Nam Pran all the way past Khao Kalok headland, stopping for a couple of quick photos, then past Khao Kalok Temple & Wat, more photos, then a two mile dash to the end of the road, quite literally it ends at a creek with a few little fishing boats. Quick turnaround and a fast pace back towards home. As we cycled past a little beach shack we noticed several cars parked, which looked odd as there are miles of empty beach and empty beach-road, and just this! So, curiosity aroused we turned, dismounted and checked it out. It turned out to be a wonderful little coffee house brewing an ... read more

Monday 20th February Very Hot & Humid today. We are enjoying Sunshine Radio music, tea, croissants and decide upon an even lazier day than yesterday. Pop along to local store, visiting Pak Nam Pran Fishing Village to retake pictures of the stinky racks of squid. This is the largest catch we've seen since the Monsoon, when all small boats were advised to stay in port. We note that Homestays here can be rented for 100baht per day (£11) for a very authentic stay, but we prefer our modern accommodation. Then it's home and upstairs onto the terrace! And we read, read, read, and laze.............................. until a cattle herder brings his beasts right past the house. The cows are placid, but he has to whack the bull several times to get him along the road, he keeps ... read more

Wednesday 15th February Today was to be a Hiking Day - so Paula drove us around 40 minutes South, to the Headquarters of the Sam Roi National Park, where, according to the website, was staffed with English-speaking Guides/Rangers and plentiful maps of this 93 sq kms area of grasslands, waterways, caves etc. We paid our 400baht entrance fees, received our meagre map. Nice Thai Receptionist with no English informed us - 'paths broken, you can no do!' You can see Porcupine Cave, Khao Deung (careful with pronunciation here) View Point, easy 1 hour walk, and that's it! We set off with aforesaid map, first stoppping point was Porcupine Cave, a short hike up loose smooth rocks, but quite impressive semi-open with stalactites/mites etc. So far so good, until Leo was in the lead a started the ... read more