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Thailand/Narathiwat Round the world trip 2007
8/12
Today our distance was short: 43k/22m to Hua Hin, a very developed, resort place, filled with ex-pats and vacationing Bangkok residents. Costs are high, but we plopped down our $50 for a beautiful, large a/c room by the pool with breakfast included. Good day to have laundry done and rest a bit.8/16 We left Bici and most of our gear at a hotel in Petchaburi, taking a bus into Bangkok to pay for our flight tickets and to see the dentist. Mike and Karen offered the use of their spare bedroom so we met up with them that evening after we had done our errand and the dentist had shot Art with novicane, taking impressions for a new bridge to be ready when we return. The Och’s digs were great, so we made ourselves at home, enjoying a bottle of California Chardonnay with Karen. When Mike got home, we all went to dinner at Cabbages and Condoms, a restaurant with a helping agenda. The décor (clothing, lampshades, etc) all make of condoms was ingenious and the food excellent. Next morning, instead of hopping the bus back to Pratchuburi, we spent the day sight seeing; riding the sky train, the river ferries, visiting the grand palace. Everything costs more than rural Thailand, but the cosmopolitan city has everything from Rolex copies to real steaks! We wolfed down a lot of western food figuring we wouldn’t have another opportunity in the next few weeks. Language can prove to be difficult, at times. Today, our tourist boat had a Karaoke guide who spent a great deal of time explaining we had all day tickets: we could get on and off as often as we liked until 7pm. He failed to tell us that certain piers closed earlier, (like the one we waited on for ½ and hour before being told to walk to the next one five minutes down river); and that there were actually 30 piers – not the 13 on our tour map. And that our ticket did not permit us to go beyond pier 13. When we decided to take the north bound ferry, it took us several piers before we realized the ferry wasn’t turning back south – for a long time. We disembarked, caught a south bound ferry and finally returned to the pier near the sky train, a good 1 ½ hours later.
After we bused back to Phetchaburi, retrieved Bici from our hotel (who had not saved us a room), we went around the corner to another, secured a room and took a cable car up to the top of a small hill, spending the afternoon tromping around Rama IV’s palace, built in the 1850”s.
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August 11 Thailand/Khao Sam Roi Yot Weltreise 2007
Today our distance was short: 43k/22m to Hua Hin, a very developed, resort place, filled with ex-pats and vacationing Bangkok residents. Costs are high, but we plopped down our $50 for a beautiful, large a/c room by the pool with breakfast included. Good day to have laundry done and rest a bit.8/16 We left Bici and most of our gear at a hotel in Petchaburi, taking a bus into Bangkok to pay for our flight tickets and to see the dentist. Mike and Karen offered the use of their spare bedroom so we met up with them that evening after we had done our errand and the dentist had shot Art with novicane, taking impressions for a new bridge to be ready when we return. The Och’s digs were great, so we made ourselves at home, enjoying a bottle of California Chardonnay with Karen. When Mike got home, we all went to dinner at Cabbages and Condoms, a restaurant with a helping agenda. The décor (clothing, lampshades, etc) all make of condoms was ingenious and the food excellent. Next morning, instead of hopping the bus back to Pratchuburi, we spent the day sight seeing; riding the sky train, the river ferries, visiting the grand palace. Everything costs more than rural Thailand, but the cosmopolitan city has everything from Rolex copies to real steaks! We wolfed down a lot of western food figuring we wouldn’t have another opportunity in the next few weeks. Language can prove to be difficult, at times. Today, our tourist boat had a Karaoke guide who spent a great deal of time explaining we had all day tickets: we could get on and off as often as we liked until 7pm. He failed to tell us that certain piers closed earlier, (like the one we waited on for ½ and hour before being told to walk to the next one five minutes down river); and that there were actually 30 piers – not the 13 on our tour map. And that our ticket did not permit us to go beyond pier 13. When we decided to take the north bound ferry, it took us several piers before we realized the ferry wasn’t turning back south – for a long time. We disembarked, caught a south bound ferry and finally returned to the pier near the sky train, a good 1 ½ hours later.
After we bused back to Phetchaburi, retrieved Bici from our hotel (who had not saved us a room), we went around the corner to another, secured a room and took a cable car up to the top of a small hill, spending the afternoon tromping around Rama IV’s palace, built in the 1850”s.
