This past weekend we went to Ko Samet, and island nearby. We took a bus about 3 hours from Bangkok then a 40 minute ferry to the island. It was beautiful and relaxing. We were on the west side of the island which is the quiet side away from town. The east side of the island is much busier (though it’s still a tiny island so not really that busy… just comparatively) and we hung out there a bit Saturday night. For the most part we just hung out at the beach and ate good food. I’ll put some pictures down below.
In other news… since the last post below I put up our first month’s pictures in a Picasa album, you can find them here. The weekend before Ko Samet we did some touristy stuff in Bangkok. We went to Wat Arun, one of the better known wats (wat means temple) in Bangkok, and one of the better known landmarks in Thailand. It’s named after Aruna, the Indian God of Dawn. It’s supposed to be most beautiful at dawn (and at dusk), but we haven’t seen it at those times. It was pretty cool during the day.
Last week, we also met a friend of a friend at a sky bar on the 25th floor of a building downtown. I think people here just refer to open air bars that are downtown on higher floors of buildings as sky bars. Maybe that happens other places too and I just don’t know about it. There was a great view, see below. This was only the 25th floor, one of the most popular ones in Bangkok, is on the 63rd floor of a building (and actually called Sky Bar) – scary! Also, the guy we met (Jacob’s Aunt’s former student’s wife’s friend from college!) grew up in Redwood City, what a small world!
Works going well, I’m adjusting and not overworking as much as I was the first couple weeks. Jacob’s making progress with his project and is really enjoying his work as well. We also just bought tickets last night to go to Kuala Lumpur. Kuala Lumpur is the capital and second largest (by population) city in Malaysia. The weekend Jacob needs to leave the country (because he’s on a tourist visa) coincided with a long holiday weekend I have for school so it worked out perfectly and we can leave the country together. We’ve just started looking into things to do while we’re there (a Friday through Monday), and it’s looking like it will be a great trip.
Wat Arun:
The sky bar:
Ko Samet:
Love it! I went to Wat Arun once and climbed those crazy-tall stairs. :)
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine from college just moved to Kuala Lumpur to teach at a university there. Have fun!