To take advantage of the weekend, we left Pattaya on Friday afternoon and slept at a nice guest house in Trat (we were willing to have dinner at the night market again!). From there, on Saturday early morning we took the ferry (with our car as well). In front of us we could see a dense piece of jungle right in the middle of the sea, surrounded by long white sand beaches and with some fog on the top of its mountains. Pretty wonderful.
After a while of sunshine, we decided to drive around looking for less touristic places; we went to the North and we drove along the east coast till de south of the island. Then we tried to go into the jungle, but a tropical thunderstorm made us go back to our resort.
On Sunday we woke up with an adventurous feeling. According to Lonely Planet, there are so many snakes in the “elephant’s island” as in the biblic garden, but I didn’t want to go home without having seen anything but Had Sai Khao (“white sand beach”). So, I chose the less scaring way to get into the jungle: elephant trekking! I expected that I wouldn’t be afraid of the snakes if I was on an elephant, but anyway I didn’t have to worry about it: when we were in the middle of the trip, it started to rain like cats and dogs, so we got soaking wet and snakes hided themselves.
And after the rain, the sun shined again (this is the best thing about monzons!): we had our last bath in the sea… and took the ferry back home.
On Monday, already at home, we finished to celebrate Gerard’s birthday. As we went out for dinner at an American restaurant (that means too much food), we decided to blow the candles in a more exotic way.
The gift, a frammed picture of Koh Chang.
