Heading South from Bangkok

 

We have gotten quite behind on this whole blogging thing b/c our electronics haven't been working according to plan. Hopefully we will get this figured out.

So after a couple nights in Bangkok, we headed south on a minibus to Hua Hin.We stayed at a guesthouse there and ended up getting a room upgrade for the price we booked so that was sweet. It was basically like a nice hotel room with our own bathroom and all which proved to be quite handy.

Our Room

The day we got there was my birthday and we decided to go out for supper. Around half an hour after eating, I started feeling a but "off" so we all know where this is leading. There were many of trips to that private bathroom of ours. My 31st birthday is one I will never forget, getting food poisoning in Thailand yippppeeee. We had been warned to ease into the street food but we had eaten it in Bangkok without any problems. It was a sit down restaurant that I got sick from so moral of the story is it can happen anywhere.

Soo....I'm kind of ashamed to admit it but we bought a selfie stick. This is our first pic using it in the Hua Hin night market.

 

We ended up staying in Hua Hin for 2 nights so I could recover. Neither of us were all that impressed by Hua Hin and not just because of the poisoning incident. Hua Hin is the closest beach resort city close to Bangkok. It had an alright beach but it was full of older tourists. There were many older Caucasian males preying on much younger Thai girls which gave a weird vibe.

We jumped aboard the "posh" train to Prachuap Khiri Khan because the other one was going to be 2 hours late which is apparently the norm. The expensive train still only cost us $11 each. The cheap train would have only cost us about $0.65 each! Some things here are crazy cheap.

Once we dropped our stuff at the guesthouse, we decided to go on a hike down the sea walk and up a rock hill with a temple on the top with incredible views. We were warned that you shouldn't take very much stuff up therebecause the monkeys will steal it.

Roberta became quite giddy upon seeing her first monkey and just had to take a picture of it.Little did we both know how many monkeys we were going to see. There were monkeys everywhere. Bigger dominant males to little babies.

At the top one of the monks fed them and it was certainly an experience. He threw some food at our feet which made the monkeys scramble all around us. This made Roberta squeal a little bit.

Viewer discretion is advised for the next video. Roberta caught some naughtiness on tape.....

We were the only ones up there other than the monk and the monkeys, so we spent a couple hours up there soaking it all in. The views were freakin amazing as well.

The next day we took the cheap train from Prachuap Khiri Khan to Chumphon which was around 200 kms. It cost us 34 baht each which converts to about $1.20 Cdn! There were a lot more local Thais on this train. It didn't have an air conditioning but all the windows were open and it was quite comfortable. It made a lot more stops at all the small places along the way so it took about 3.5 hours. We will definitely take it again as it was cheap and quite comfortable.

Once in Chumphon, we walked to the cheap hostel we were staying at. We bought our ferry tickets to Koh Tao for the next morning.

 

 

 

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