13//06 I owe you since last month that I gonna upload pictures from my trip. I just have time to upload them today.
I took a train from Hua-Lum-Pong
the main train station in BKK (Thailand)
Night time everybody sleep
The bogie that I rode is A/C + bed so...it quit comfortable
restroom and sink is here
restaurant on the train where I had my breakfast
Train in Thailand have many different class such as...normal seat (can't adjust your seat) with/without A/C (we class 3rd class), seat + bed at night you can adjust it and change seat into bed have 2 level upper bed or lower bed....again with/without A/C (we called 2nd class) and the last one....single room. It have 2 beds in 1 room. You can buy the whole room or just one bed (then you might have to share with somebody else if the room are full) (we called 1st class) with aircondition. I took 2nd class with A/C ticket cost 821 Baht (for upper bed) and 871 Baht for lower bed (you don't need to climb up to your bed which is good for old people and baby) The price for 1 class if you will take the whole room is around 1800 Baht or 1300 Baht for one bed.
I caught a trian down to south of Thailand. My first destination was Trang Province. Where I used to live with my grandfather for 4 years. I didn't visit him for 2 years. Now I what to thanks him to raise my up and be a good girl :)
I left BKK at 17.05 and arrived Trang at 8 on the next morning. Then I went to my old high-school to visit my old teacher.
inside classroom
one classroom have 30-50 students
Hall way
Swimming pool, only for kindergarten kids :(
small garden where we relax and do some activity
Top view
Open air canteen
2 little kindergarten girls smile for camera :)
Danny, my old friend
Now he damn rich, he took over his dad businees
Shipyard!!!
about 2 pm came back to my grandfather's house. I saw my uncle making a paper basket.
paper baskets
My uncle
Made from telephone dicrectory
first you have to roll small piece of paper
make a small tube
Then braid them together and glue on every end
base of the basket
Now he adjust the basket's figure
almost done
now making its handle
let see how to make 1 paper tube
1 piece = 1 little paper tube
start to roll it around the stick
Then all the tube will be same size
half way
done and put some glue at the end
then pull it out from stick
It's all hand made, he make it on his free time and sell them. 1 basket is cost around 4-5 hundred Baht. Took 1 full day to make it (not count the time while he make those paper tube. One basket have around 1500 paper tube) You can order me if you want one. hehehe
Next morning I had breakfast at Tim-Some and coffee shop. hehehe good food.
From the left...sticky rice with egg custard on top (cover by green banana leaf), 2 Pa-tong-ko (closest dish) and Tim-Some
one of Tim-Some dish
Pa-Tong-Ko
because it shape like twin, so we say match like pa-tong-ko
that's mean you glue together all the time
nothing between both of you
Tim-Some in steam glass cabinet
After lunch I caught a but from Trang to Phuket to visit my sister and her husband. Ticket for first class bus (40 seats/bus) is 241 Baht. The trip took 5 hours. I never feel comfortable on the bus or even airplane. It so hard to sleep or relax. More comfortable and more fun to drive. When me and Steffen took a trip I always fall asleep let him drive alone. Sorry babe. hehehe
Seats on the bus from Trang to Phuket
Side of main rode along south of Thailand
After 5 hours...I arrived Phuket
my brother-in-law pick me up at bus station
I was very hungry, so I asked him to take me to my favorite noodle restaurent. It called Mee-Ton-Poh (หมี่ต้นโพธิ์)
It located on big round about opp. hotel
This round about (I can't remember what hotel it is)
Sa-Tae...favorite appetiser for many foreigner esp. Aussy
Hok-Kian noodle @ Mee-Ton-Poh
After that dinner we went to their new house. They building new house not too far from the biggest shopping mall in Phuket. It's really big house. Have 2 guest rooms :) will be ready to welcome Steffen family soon. hehehe
Their new house
back to the house that they live now
because they don't have any child yet, so my sister feed 3 dogs!! One of them (the puddle) just had an accident. badly
My sister took the dog to hospitle doctor, doctor made new necklece for the dog, so the dog can't lick her own wound. hahaha make her look like alien's dog (have her own satellite around her neck)
almost dark I met one of my old friend
we took a drive around Phuket downtown
This is Sapan-Hin round about
that statue is imitate from mine's tool
Only short tour, then back home get ready for sun bath tomorrow. (It was rainning all day)
My breakfast...Ka-Nom-Jean
This restaurent is behind Phuket capital
all self service, you can put as much as you can on your dish
We eat Ka-Nom-Jean with these vegetable
and egg if you like
That's how Ka-Nom-Jean's look
its a little spicy but you can choose less spicy one like mine
About 10 am. me and the friend who took me short tour last night went to Patong beach. The most favorite beach for tourist. As you can see the weather is not too good Cloudy!!! and little rain drop too.
Patong beach....the sand is not white like before
beach shower, build after Tsunami
Jet ski which you can rent
Some decoration along the beach
chairs in starfish shape
Seahorse statues
Turtles
Map showed the area which is safe if Tsunami attack again
(even they know that it didn't happen often, before it happen they never relise it no warning nothing to protect people. Like the idiom "It's no use bolting the stable-door after the horse has gone")(In Thailand we don't have much horse so we compare with cow intead of horse :) )
1 short tour along the beaches....then I decided to stop, take sun and swim at Ka-Ta beach. Little more quiet than Patong.
Happy time!!
Sun bath
Tattoo on my left shoulder (Hanuman one of
charector in Ramakian)
That evening my sister ask if I want to come to hospital and let her check my teeth. (She's a dentist at Bangkok Hospital (Phuket branch)). She take little fat spot under my neck skin away and took one my my wisdom teeth away too :( without any warning. She asked me if she could take it off...I only have 2 minute to make a decition while she prepare the needle!!
I still smile on patient bed. hehehe just used to it
I'm not scare of blood. dare to look she cut my own neck!!
again her dogs
They very cute...and big hahaha
I like big dog while Steffen like small dog :(
Me, my sister (Aom) and her dogs
the gloden on the left, I think he thought he still young
when he try to say hi by give us his front leg, he put all the weight that he have and it real heavy. esp when he happy and jump on us.
The second night my friend brought me out to night club. Guess what I saw many lady-boy and they look very pretty. :( maybe more pretty than I am.
Lady-boy @ Bang-La walking street
souvenir shop @ Bang-La
I spent 2 nights with my sister and caught a bus to Samui. My dad have a friend there who run a bungalow business on Chawang beach.
Ticket from Phuket - Samui
including bus and ferry
4-5 hours on the bus and 1.30 hour on the ferry
ferry from Surathani (Don-Sak District) to Samui is 110 Baht
our ferry is on the right...I know it's pretty old if compare with a ferry in Norway
I rent a motorbike to drive around the island. But I found out that the island is too big to drive around and it not fun to drive alone either. My dad's friend have bungalows name O.P. resort.
my bed...he offer me free accommodation
it have fridge, aircondition, hot water and big bed
the price for 1 night in low season is around 800 Baht
Reatuarant on the beach infront of bangalows
I stay there only 1 night...miss Steffen so much need to be home earlier than i expected. The next morning I caught a VIP bus (24 seats/bus) back to Bangkok.
ticket for VIP 24 seats/bus is 949 baht
first class 40 seats/bus is 651 baht
and second class is 530 baht
VIP seat is bigger and more comfortable,
but still I couldn't sleep
On the ferry back to Don-Sak
I left Samui about 15.30 reach BKK at 5 the next morning. Steffen still up so I talked to him alittle before i go to my sweet bed again. Love you honey.
