Thailand Trip 2011 Summary: 5D4N @ Kanchanaburi, Hua Hin & Bangkok, Thailand

  • Sumo

This is a summary of my trip during the short holiday. Detailed posts will be up soon 🙂


Kanchanaburi à Hua Hin à Bangkok


***


Day 1 (BKK à Kanchanaburi)
We took the earliest flight from LCCT

thai10

1# Our tour van that fit 10pax excluding the driver

DSC_1809

2# It was still early when we arrived at Bangkok. Had an early lunch at one Chinese-Thai Restaurant

DSC_1970

3# Took 3 hours journey to Kanchanaburi and checked-in into River Kwai Hotel (the best hotel in town)

DSC_1847

4# Shopped and snack-ed at small town center of Kanchanaburi 

DSC_1871

5# Err… (have no idea what is this. It has something to do with the left-over-wall after the World Wall 2) and visited to the war cemetery (forgot to take photos = =)

DSC_1882

6# Dinner at Taraburee Restaurant. Dinner by the river ♥ 

DSC_1915

7# Best pork Knuckle!!! Glad to have this on our reunion dinner on CNY eve (nian san shi)

DSC_1939

8# Night market
It was a spacious place where merchants place and arrange their goods on the floor.
Lelong Lelong

DSC_1944

9# Supper time

thai

10# Street food – Desserts as supper.


Day 2 (Kanchanaburi à Hua Hin)

DSC_1986

11# The bridge on the River Kwai

DSC_2014

12# The railway that connectsThailand and Burma; built by the empire of Japan during World War 2. Forced labour – Asian labours and allied prisoner of war were used in its construction. 

DSC_2101

13# River Kwai Park – a place selling goods and souvenirs

DSC_2083

14# This beauty is here too. 

thai1

15# on our way to Hua Hin, drove into Big C supermarket’s food court for lunch.

DSC_2133

16# Gong Hei Fatt Choy yaaa…

DSC_2464

17# After 2 1/2 hours journey from Kanchanaburi…
Checked-in into Courtyard Marriott at Cha am beach, Hua Hin
854/2 Burirom Road, Cha-am, Hua Hin 76120 Thailand
Get to stay in superbbb room!!! ♥ ♥ 

DSC_2155-1

18# It’s the Sun-Sea-Breeze-hugging-time!

DSC_2225

19# Was lucky enough to have the opportunity to watch the lion dance.
a lot of ang moh here too

DSC_2197

20# Tea time

thai2

21# Happy Hour by the beach!

thai3

22# Seafood Dinner at Baan Itsara Restaurant, Hua Hin
7 naeb-kehat road hua hin
Tel: 032530574 or 032511673 (Thai phone number)

thai4

23# Night market – a must visit for every visitor!
Located close to the clock tower on the other side of petchkasem road.


Day 3 – Hua Hin

DSC_2395

24# 6.35am (BKK hour): Sunrise

DSC_2425

25# Full english breakfast at John’s J&K restaurant; managed by an English retiree and his wife, K, a Thai lady.

DSC_2454

26# Self pampering with foot massage.

DSC_2471

27# PlearnWan Hua Hin – an eco vintage village. 
This place gotta kill your memory card’s storage!!!

thai5

28# and snacking in this place!

DSC_2671

29# Big shopping mall in Hua Hin – Hua Hin Market Village.

DSC_2644

30# Royal waiting room at Hua Hin’s Railway Station
was built in the reign of King Rama VI in order to welcome the king and his entourage. 

DSC_2678

31# a happening market place filled with hand made items for sales.

DSC_2722

32# Dinner: The Hua Hin Terrace @ Hua Hin Night Market. 


Day 4 (Hua Hin à Bangkok)

DSC_2762

33# No pretty sunrise today

DSC_2815

34# about 2 hours from Hua Hin, the busiest market in the world – Damnoen Saduak Floating Market – canal filled with boats vending vegetables, fruits, snack and daily necessities.


To get here: travel from Bangkok via Thonburi Paktoh Highway to Samut Songkhram Town, follow the sign to Damnoen Saduak (Highway No. 325)

DSC_0069

35# Checked- in into Narai Hotel.
Address: 222 Silom Road, Bangrak, Bangkok, 10500 Thailand

DSC_0097

36# Platinum Mall – everyone’s heaven (or should I say, ladies?)

thai7

37# Platinum Mall’s food court – they have what you want here

DSC_0133

38# Dinner @ Chinatown
Another happening area in BKK, jam-packed with tourists all over the world especially from China and Hong Kong.


Day 5: BKK

thai8

39# Breakfast in Narai Hotel

DSC_0211

40# Naraya – another Heaven for ladies!!!
Baan Silom
No. 651 Room A5 & B4, Silom Rd., Silom,
Bangrak, Bangkok 10500
Open daily from 0900 to 2200 

DSC_0225

41# Yum… 
A fruitful trip (with my cousin)

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...


23 thoughts on “Thailand Trip 2011 Summary: 5D4N @ Kanchanaburi, Hua Hin & Bangkok, Thailand”

  • Wow so many nice pictures and places you went to! Even Hua Hin! I heard there's a place with a nice beach… would love to visit one day!
    PS: The pork knuckles are to-die-for! 😛

  • ai wei, the trip sure is fun isnt it? a lot of nice food can be seen 😀 after saw those pictures, we feel like going for a vacation too.. we're now pretty stressed up by the midterm,tests,reports and so on.. argh=/

  • witch,
    yessss, the beach is nice.
    and perfecto view from our room. just one thing, we never have time to enjoy the facilities there to max.
    must eat that pork knuckles, gotta share it up here soon!

    WyYv,
    plan plan plan, i wan another trip again. cannot tahan life like now. same as you guys, with lots of terms, paper and assignments and reports to go for. the nightmare will soon arrived in 2 weeks time
    🙁

  • nasi lemak lover,
    no prob 🙂

    ronald chang,
    great trip it was! miss it badly now. huhuuu.

    Yvon S,
    really?! where have u plan to go?! have a great trip ya~

    baby sumo,
    🙂

    kampungboycitygal,
    wahhhh, bring more cash!!!
    i wanna go again. huhuuuhuuuu
    6days in bkk? cool lar, shopping heaven

  • simon seow,
    errm, i am not really sure about that. cz we had someone booking for us in hatyai, then the order transfered to bkk for us. stuff like that. or perhaps u can check out train? i din get to travel on the death railway. 遗憾

    christine,
    i also wanna follow them
    but then the low fare tix dun have the day they travelling 🙁

    james,
    same here. wanna go again but the low fare doesn't fit my schedule. huuuhuuuhuuu… 🙁

  • Hey babe!
    wow! Nice! a very good deserving hols aft all yr exams yea?
    I was in hua hin once. Slept by the beach ovr countdwn of new year 😉
    Memories!

  • Did you visit Mareukatayawan Palace near Cha Am???

    Its a big miss if you didnt manage to visit it.

  • Rebecca,
    cool!!!
    all night long by the beach! haha.
    just a short trip during CNY

    Phatchanon Chongjaroensuk,
    we missed out that!!! 🙁
    cz we were lack of time for that. sigh. will do it again if we were there next time.

  • I have been browsing online more than 4 hours today, yet I never found any interesting article
    like yours. It’s pretty worth enough for me. In my view, if all webmasters and bloggers made good content as you did, the web will be much more useful than ever before.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.