Bangkok & Pattaya Trip - Day 3

In the morning of 25th June 2007, we supposed following our tour guide to Koh Loan Coral Island to play water sports - jet ski, parasailing, banana boat etc. But my colleagues and I did not have interest in water sports. We told our tour guide that we stayed at Pattaya City and walk around. From our hotel to beach was just walked across two main roads and walked through a small road, then we can reach the beach.

The day life and night life in Pattaya were totally different. A night before, we took a walk to survey the places around our hotel, all the small roads were full with pubs and bars, which have colourful lights around with rock music and sexy girls and foreigners around. But the night life there was no meant for us because we did not used to this kind of life. In the morning, the roads were very quiet and all the pubs and bars were closed except souvenir shop.


This was one view from Pattaya Beach. The beach was not very big and not many foreigners came out to swimming. Around the morning hour, I think all the foreigners were still on their bed because Pattaya City was a night life city.


This was one of the water sports from Koh Loan Coral Island - Parasailing.


This was the road in the morning. Very quiet and only us and other few local people were walking on the road.

This was the bar in the morning.

In afternoon after we had our lunch. We gathered with other tourists went to Nong Nooch Village to look at Thailand traditional performance and elephant show. When we reach there, we rushed to watch Thai traditional performance in the main stage. After the performance, we went to the back of the stage, there was a big space for elephant show.

Thai Kick Boxing.

Thai Traditional Dance.

Thai Drum Performance.

Before the elephant show started, they allow the tourists took picture with elephants. This was the only male Asian Elephant I saw at the show. I never look at the elephant in this close distance before, this time I actually stand in front of the elephants and took their photos. I was exciting to look at these huge animals in front of me. The elephants were very cute and tame. If the elephants at the show were African Elephants, I just want to say bye-bye and I not going to sit there and watch the show, because African Elephants were more largest than Asian Elephants and they are fiercely.

This elephant was very funny when it wanted to shoot the balloons.

This elephant was helping that man massage.

After the show, we left the cultural village and went to have our dinner. Since our group had plan for Thai Massage for 2 hours. The tour guide ask the bus sent others back to hotel and he brought us to the massage place which near our dinner restaurant.

This was the place where we had our massage. The massage was very nice and it really helped me relaxed my muscles. Even now, I still missed the massage that I had there.

After back to hotel, we went out to find some food to eat. Across a road, we saw a lady selling some fried foods at the roadside. We went there and took a look, she was selling fried insects. Since one of my colleague wanted to try out the fried insects. So we bought some and shared with each other. She fried the insects and then put in a pot mixed with some spice and sugar.

These were beetles which I did not knew the name, grasshoppers, cicadas, crickets, bee's larva. I ate the larva, it tasted like the popcorn seed which did not cook properly. My other colleagues ate grasshopper and cicada.

This was the actual night life in Pattaya City. Bars and pubs fulled with colourful lights and sexy girls.