The last trip or adventure Andy and I took together while he was here was to Hua Hin. Hua Hin is south of Bangkok by about 2 1/2 hours and was the original beach travel destination in Thailand, so it is quite popular. This means there are always a lot of people and it is pretty well developed. However, the beaches are nice, and we of course found some rocks to climb on. We did about a day and half of adventure bouldering near Khao Takiab. Khao Takiab is the mountain on top of which sits a temple complex and a very large standing Buddha. All of the temples and temple buildings are very picturesque especially because it all overlooks the sea. While walking around looking for the boulders we'd seen pictures of we were greeted by an intense amount of macaques. As soon as we looked up the road that led to the temple we saw more and more macaques appear out of nowhere, and as they began to stare at use and walk toward us, we immediately turned around. It felt like we were in Planet of the Apes. Very eery.
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| Khao Takiab temple and buddhas. It's amazing no macaques made it in this shot. |
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| Khao Takiab- bouldering is all to the right past the trees. |
Nevertheless, we found the boulders and did some exploring. Then we hit the quieter of the two popular beaches and had a nice time sitting in the late afternoon sunlight looking at the beautiful Mt. Khao Takiab which for the most part is unclimbable. Which is a shame- there is so much potential there.
The guesthouse we stayed in was really homey and reminded me so much of my summers as a kid at Union Pier, Michigan. The guesthouse is built on stilts over the water. We fell asleep and woke up to the sound of waves crashing against the shore. It was really wonderful.
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| Meo blue- 'meo' means cat and blue because she has blue eyes. such a cute kitty who loves getting pets. she lives at Bird Guesthouse where we stayed. |
One night my friends Teresa and Wat Chai joined us from nearby Pranburi for a delicious dinner. It was nice to have some company for dinner, and I'd really wanted Andy to meet these two friends of mine because they have been so helpful in my adjustment to life in Thailand. Wat Chai is Thai, so he has been very kind in enlightening me in all things Thai, and he taught us all sorts of words for the foods were eating. I like eating with Wat Chai because he'll order things I haven't yet tried because I have no idea what it is.
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| Wat Chai, Teresa, Yok- one of Wat Chai's students and the two sun-loving farangs out for dinner |
We arrived in Hua Hin on a Thursday morning and left on Sunday afternoon. It was short trip, but very memorable and for our last little adventure together before Andy returned to the States. We had a lovely time. Some time in the sun, some time on some rocks, and some time walking the markets and Night Bazaar to buy gifts and take pictures. For our last dinner in Hua Hin we decided to live the High Life and order lobster. Hua Hin has seafood a plenty, so we couldn't pass up some lobster. I'm very glad we went there, and I'm excited to go back and explore surrounding areas like Pranburi- there's some climbing there too...so of course I have to check that out!
Bird Guesthouse... not Blue. Blue was the kitty!
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ReplyDeleteoh yes thank you- Bird guesthouse. blue was such a cute kitty! and yea, i had fun bouldering there, even though we only pulled down for like a day. it was still cool.
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