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1997,
or 2540 Thai year, the country is doing horribly economicly, Thai bath
value bloated from 25 /$ to 30 ++, the nation needs help, and we
needed to take a vacation!
Yes, in a time of depressing economy, Thai must help Thai, travel in Thailand.
Not just because of ecconomic problem, cuz it rules!  Plenty of
cool places to go and enjoy yourself right here on the motherland. Besides,
it cost way less than traveling abroad, and give
as much satisfaction. Each year we spend a huge amount of money
traveling, shopping overseas. Per head, we spend many times more than
visitors coming in to Thailand. We even loose in travel spending balance,
just picture trade balance!
We've put our short three days vacation
on the web, in hope that you might find it fun, and considered traveling
around the motherland more. And here's our trip
story with plenty of pictures and tips for you to see, you
might find it useful. If not.. oh well, enjoy the pix. And please.. you
are welcomed to send your vacation stories in!
 The fruit season is
here, there's no better place to go than Jantaburi.
All of us decided to take monday off and went of for a fruitie trip.
Eight of us jump on a rental van heading east to my mother's home town,
on saturday morning. Taking a road trip around Thailand isn't all that
expensive, if you go in number. The van cost around 1300 bath a day
excluding gas. Did I mentioned that the van was
equipted with VDO karaoke?
We end up paying 390 bath
each, for the van plus gas, and 850 baht total, at the end of the break.
 About four hours, we've arrived
at our destination. Hot sun clear sky, cool wind in the air,
sweet smell of banana, rising up through the airr r r ..hehe.
sorry, got carried away. |
 There she was picking rambutan,
singing ooo a dee dee dee dum dee dee doo. |
 P' Pong+ checking out the durian.
Dose it bite? |
 Walking in the fruit plantation
we were at least five kilos lighter than we are now. For every
five steps, we stop to pick up fruits, mostly mangosteen, longgong,
and rambutan. |
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 Pigging
out at the fruit plantation was satisfying, as appetizer, now for
the main course. We headed to a shrimp farm
nearby, run by my grandpa and his sons, which means free
food to BBQ!!
 I tried throwing those fish net thing, well,
it wasn't as easy as it seemed! we got some help from the worker there.
The fish found on the pond are there naturally, wasn't farmed like
the shrimps.
 Here's nong Non,
my aunt's son and our host. He's a good looking kid, click on the
small image and check him out!
  Here we are helping nong Non picking
out the small fish tossing'em back to the water pond. The fish wasn't
enough, so get get some shrimp as well.
 Choo is having fun playing the shrimp."Swadee krap.. I'm about to be dinner for these
overgrown two leged creatures" ------->
 After three hours hanging out at the shrimp
farm, looking around, trying out fishing with a bait, the two leged
predators walked back to their hide out to prey upon the poor water
creatures. |
Back at the fruit plantation, took out the grill, light up the fire,
prepared to feast on our  gatherings from the shrimp farm. The food was great, everyone
was full. What else to do but a "Slave" card game. We played till
late. Actually we played at almost any occasion where there are flat things
in front of us.
| Next,
we are off to the waterfall, then
a beach to stroll around, eat
sea food, another beach to coral snorkling.Hell,
yea, there's alot of fun things to do. |
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