❤ Saturday, May 31, 2008
Day 2: Fishing Village/Platinium Market & Shop'g Mall
Fishing Village; about an hour journey away from BKK. Our tour guide is Nui; very friendly and engaging. Surprisingly, she is super fluent in English. Quickly making use of the opportunity to ask for directions and recommendations as majority of the Thais can’t communicate in Basic English. Thais do learn English in school but it’s only 1 hour per week. Problem is that thy usually converse in Thai and hardly practice EL.
Out at the sea on the Thai long-tail boat. I’ve never been so near to the arms of the ocean and it’s definitely a great experience. Given a chance, I’ll want to visit there again. Peaceful and relaxed; away from the bustle city. Mussels are bred using strings that are coated with food solutions which the mussels feed on. Clams are dug from the mud. So much things that we don’t get to see in our small lil red dot.
Lunch was seafood and fruits on the bamboo stilt house. Sumptuous meal with princess-like treatment. Why? Thy offered to peel the craps and prawns. And we were like ‘huh’? Are you serious? So we had the table to ourselves and thy only had their lunch at the back of the hut until we finished ours. Somehow, at that time I didn’t really like to be treated differently. We did invite them to join us but thy rejected. Prolly that’s their culture or because we are the guests. ((: Anyw.. this private tour isn’t cheap at all. Estimated about 75$ per person which includes driver, tour guide, air-con minivan(very comfy), lunch, bananas for monkey feeding, fuel, tow charges and boat trip. A lot of arrangements have to be communicated before leaving for BKK as the owner, Tong, replies all her emails personally. Join this tour mans!
Back to BKK in the late afternoon. Nui dropped us off at Platinum Market and explained to us the various shopping districts over there. Among all places, Platinum has the greatest offers with wholesales prices so much lower as compared to Chatuchek or Suan Lam Night Bazaar. Then dinner was A&W; the long-lost fastfood. Rootbeer float!
Out at the sea on the Thai long-tail boat. I’ve never been so near to the arms of the ocean and it’s definitely a great experience. Given a chance, I’ll want to visit there again. Peaceful and relaxed; away from the bustle city. Mussels are bred using strings that are coated with food solutions which the mussels feed on. Clams are dug from the mud. So much things that we don’t get to see in our small lil red dot.
Lunch was seafood and fruits on the bamboo stilt house. Sumptuous meal with princess-like treatment. Why? Thy offered to peel the craps and prawns. And we were like ‘huh’? Are you serious? So we had the table to ourselves and thy only had their lunch at the back of the hut until we finished ours. Somehow, at that time I didn’t really like to be treated differently. We did invite them to join us but thy rejected. Prolly that’s their culture or because we are the guests. ((: Anyw.. this private tour isn’t cheap at all. Estimated about 75$ per person which includes driver, tour guide, air-con minivan(very comfy), lunch, bananas for monkey feeding, fuel, tow charges and boat trip. A lot of arrangements have to be communicated before leaving for BKK as the owner, Tong, replies all her emails personally. Join this tour mans!
Back to BKK in the late afternoon. Nui dropped us off at Platinum Market and explained to us the various shopping districts over there. Among all places, Platinum has the greatest offers with wholesales prices so much lower as compared to Chatuchek or Suan Lam Night Bazaar. Then dinner was A&W; the long-lost fastfood. Rootbeer float!
