Hat Cabana Beach
We arrived in Prachup Kiri Khan Friday 16th.
Our budget hotel is fine. No air con but it has a couple of fans and flyscreens. It feels safe and so far we have not seen many other 'farang' in town.
There is a tourism and seafood festival happening in town and for the next 2 weeks. The street along the waterfront is packed with tables and chairs sponsored by the local beer company Singha. There are street stalls selling furniture, clothes and dozens of food stalls selling seafood- mussels (tiny ones), sunset shell cockles like we get on the beach in Papamoa, crabs, prawns, fish- dried, salted, shredded you name it they do it to fish, and their speciality squid. After a while you don't notice the fishy smell or the dog urine or...
There is a funfair along the street with traditional Thai shadow puppets and there has been a different band every night. Some of the English songs have lost their original lyrics but we could identify them.
Have been eating at the night food stalls that are situated across from our hotel from 6-10 at night. Fresh tropical fruit smoothies and mussel omelettes.
Mussel Omlette cook
Our budget hotel is fine. No air con but it has a couple of fans and flyscreens. It feels safe and so far we have not seen many other 'farang' in town.
There is a tourism and seafood festival happening in town and for the next 2 weeks. The street along the waterfront is packed with tables and chairs sponsored by the local beer company Singha. There are street stalls selling furniture, clothes and dozens of food stalls selling seafood- mussels (tiny ones), sunset shell cockles like we get on the beach in Papamoa, crabs, prawns, fish- dried, salted, shredded you name it they do it to fish, and their speciality squid. After a while you don't notice the fishy smell or the dog urine or...
There is a funfair along the street with traditional Thai shadow puppets and there has been a different band every night. Some of the English songs have lost their original lyrics but we could identify them.
Have been eating at the night food stalls that are situated across from our hotel from 6-10 at night. Fresh tropical fruit smoothies and mussel omelettes.
Mussel Omlette cookThere is a wat- temple on a rock above the town and we walked the 391 steps to the top and were surrounded by 3 times as many monkeys who are encouraged by the local monkey food sellers below the track. It is so smokey that it is difficult to see very far from the top. People cook using charcoal and then burn their plastic rubbish at the end of the day.
We walked along the beach yesterday and were the only ones on it. It is a sandy beach and it was very flat. We heard a noise above us and saw the tail end of the skydivers forming a flower in the colours of the Thai flag and it was to commemorate the King of Thailand's birthday. The sky divers came from Japan, Germany, USA and America. Quite spectacular and not advertised through the tourist office we visited on the first day here! If it was it was all in Thai!
Watched fishers today throw their weighted nets and catch little fish. Quite fun.
A local using this gadget to scrape the sand and get shellfish like the tuatua at papamoa Beach.
