{"id":11939,"date":"2024-03-07T23:59:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T10:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/?p=11939"},"modified":"2024-08-31T14:23:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T02:23:36","slug":"thailand-day-7-little-scooter-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/2024\/03\/thailand-day-7-little-scooter-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand Day 7 – Little Scooter Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"
\r\n
\r\n \r\n <\/i>\r\n <\/a>\r\n 3 <\/span>\r\n<\/div>
\r\n \r\n <\/i>\r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>
\"\"

No diving today, just driving around a bit on my scooter, this is on Karon Beach<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

Karon Dragon<\/a> Image<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

As if Buddha is saying “Thou shalt not pass”<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

Sunny Karon beach<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

I see this photo on many mud guards, but who is it? Is it Barry Gibb<\/a> from the Bee Gees?<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

View from Kata Viewpoint<\/a>, first beach is Kata Beach, second one is Karon Beach, Patong Beach behind the hills in the distance<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

I think this sign directs men to a place where they can peep at women?<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

Still at the viewpoint<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

Many people came here to enjoy the view, I would love to send up my drone but I’ve learned it’s not strictly allowed or possibly even strictly not allowed, so I keep it hidden in my bag<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

I followed a dirt road, not knowing where it would end, turns out it leads to Nui Beach<\/a>, cool!, or so I thought but then it turned out it costs money to visit this beach, even to park my scooter cost money, sorry but I’m too Dutch for that, so I took this photo and left again<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

I stopped at the Seaview Elephant Camp<\/a>, paid some money for bananas to feed to the elephant. That was kind of nice but some of the elephants here are chained at their feet and I’m not a fan of that at all. Luckily Seaview Elephant Camp gets a really bad rating op TripAdvisor and the likes to hopefully more and more people will avoid this place like the plague!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

Besides feeding elephants you can also feed monkeys here, which I decided to do as well. In hindsight I should not have come here. Once inside the monkey area it turns out they are all chained up and the chains are short too. I don’t understand this is allowed and I hope this place goes bust<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

I mean, yeah, the monkeys are cute but why chain them up like that?<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

So sad<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

Right after taking this photo the monkey grabbed my hand and looked at me with a desperate “PLEASE SAVE ME!” look on its face, really disturbing<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

At least no worries at…<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

…Nai Han Beach<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

Playground<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

Ko Man as seen from Windmill Viewpoint<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

Seafood, lots of seafood in this street just east of the Rawai Pier, see here<\/a> for photos from a previous visit<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

A lonely fisherman<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

The Rawai Pier<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

Me having another awesome smoothie back in Kata and petting the cat that chose my backpack to have a nap on<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

I’m hungry, I’m in Kata so there’s only one place to go: my beloved Koi Restaurant, I must have been heer a hundred times over the years, it is that<\/strong> good<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

Garlic & Pepper Chicken curry, the best!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

Kata by night, it has changed a lot since I was first<\/a> here, the place had bars everywhere with bar ladies wanting to play Four in a Row<\/a> with you and get you to pay for all their drinks. That has all but gone, at least from Kata, it’s now much more family oriented and 80% of the tourists seem to speak some Russian language<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

It all looks really cosy here, much better than back in NZ where everything seems to be lit by bright fluorescent lighting<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

A big night market, again full of ‘Russians’ (I can’t tell by their language where they’re actually from but it’s all Russian to me) and food stalls<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

I’m having some Chicken Kebab, affordable and tasty<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

And a curry, unfortunately the food was rather bland here, Kiwis would have loved it. That really is what makes the Koi Restaurant so great: it’s where the locals<\/strong> go, so it’s authentic and spicy and not catered to tourists that can’t handle spicy<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

But it’s really nice what they have done with Kata, good atmosphere<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

And so much cheap fruit, I wish mangos were affordable in NZ, love them<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

On the way back to Patong I stop at the Karon Beach Roundabout where they are celebrating something Chinese, looks nice all those lanterns<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

3  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[723,719,725,726,724],"class_list":["post-11939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thailand","tag-karon-beach","tag-kata-beach","tag-kata-viewpoint","tag-nui-beach","tag-rawai-pier","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11939"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12411,"href":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11939\/revisions\/12411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}