Last weekend I met up with some girls from orientation to head down to the beach. My journey started with a five and a half hour bus ride to Bangkok and an hour and a half taxi ride to Chonburi. After this long excursion the relaxing weekend began. We woke up early and took a fairy to Koh Si Chang. Once I was there I quickly came to the conclusion that this was not one of the many tourist islands of Thailand. We only stumbled upon a few other foreigners. Once we got there we walked to our hotel that was a landlocked boat made into a guesthouse.
A sign on the side of the road. Only in Thailand!
Our hotel
The first day three of the girls and I decided to explore the island via bike. After we rented our bikes for a very reasonable cost we rode them down the street to the Chinese Temple known as Saan Chao Pho Khao Yai or Shrine of the Father Spirit of the Great Hill. Once we were there we stumbled upon three Thai ...
"..that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned.. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.”