Tuesday, August 25, 2009

8.25.09 Hua Hin


We were quite happy to get out of Bangkok. Beautiful sights, but a little too hectic for vacation. We (probably Jenn) lost our train tickets to Hua Hin (a beach city about 2 hours south of Bangkok), and rushed over to the train station to buy more tickets. The train tickets we had bought before were sold out, but there were some super cheap ones for 88 baht (about $1.50 a person) left - the non-A/C train which took about 1 hour longer.

The non A/C ridiculously cheap train wasn't too bad. The windows were down the whole time, and there was a nice breeze. We actually kind of enjoyed it. We arrived in our hotel in Hua Hin, and immediately went to the beach. We had some Singha beers, pad thai and papaya salad and a stir fried green vegetable that Jenn loves and always eats but does not know the name of.

We did some horseback riding on the beach, and went to the local night market afterwards. We hit up a few bars and ate a late dinner from a cart across the street from our hotel. On the street, cut pineapple and mango was about 30 cents and delicious shish kabobs were the same price.

Hua Hin is a cool beach city, more laid back, nice people. We rented a scooter which only cost about $4 for 24 hours.

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