Thursday, July 31, 2008
Here are some of the photos taken during Day 2 of the trip. We visited quite a few places! Non stop! From morning till night!
In the morning, we visited the Tribal Village (Ethno-ecoagricultural). The kids and villagers are definitely friendly! We were advised to bring some snacks, biscuits, chocolates, tidbits, lollipops or sweets upon visiting the tribal village.. I did! I brought from home... =)
So after taking photos with the kids and playing with them, "talking" to them - they have not mastered English - I "upah" them sweets... Some of my colleagues gave the M&M chocolates, APOLLO cake.. and etc etc. Heehe a colleague of mine made a joke in Malay.. "They must be saying this to themselves: Wow! We got lots of goodies.. Got candies, lollipops, sweets, chocolates, etc etc.. dun have to worry abt being hungry.." Hah.
After the visit, we headed of to the Mae Ping River cruise. U know Boat Quay here in SG? We often notice tourists in the boat didnt we? Well, these time round we were in the boat for a cruise! Haha... Then snap snap snap. One very cute photo taken while awaiting for Mae Ping River cruise.. Heehe.. will post it up here.. *naughty*
Lunch time in another Halal restaurant. A buffet! All the meat finished! Took a long time for them to top up food so wait longer.. As I was ALWAYS hungry, I just eat rice with vegetables.. NO meat.. I really didnt enjoy it.. coz I must have at least 1 meat in my meal...
After lunch, proceed to visit the Gems factory.. Very nice crystallic gems they have..Next visit: some of my colleagues said its like torturing.. but what I think is refreshing! (Ya lah.. Just coz I went to the gym.. so I dun think it was tiring... Winks)
We have to visit a cave.. and in order for us to get there, we have to climb up the slopes, upon reaching the destination, we have to climb up the stairs... after that we will see the door to the cave.. We went in and again, we have to climb down the steps... Just looking around the cave and know the history told by our Thai tour guides. It was very dark in the cave, took a few shots but deleted them as I cant see a thing!
Our final visit before dinner and then SHOPPING... is the San Khampang Hot Springs...
Enjoy the photos.. (Pssttt.. I took 165 photos in Day 2! =D Very the ghairah la! So for now total photos of Day 1 + Day 2 = 296!?!)
1) While waiting for the others...
WELCOME TO CENTARA DUANGTAWAN HOTEL
2) Tribal village:
a) need to go to toilet, anyone? go to "them". Hahaha.. Very "good" English..
b) the villagers / village / school /church
3) Our tour guides.... =) Abg Azman, Pat (Thai), Frances and Kim (Thai)
4) This is how u weave
5) MAE PING RIVER CRUISE
The cute photo I told u abt...
JCS, the GM saw a few of us snap a shot at the above photo.. she exclaimed with her hand around her waist, "why u all take the photo of the little boy ah ah?" I answered, "very cute la.."
Wanna see a sampan table?
6) Gem / crystal
7) While walking up and then coming downthe slopes, took some pictures..
8) Sankhampaeng Hot Springs
P/S: Will post up the links to my fotopages soon, aite?
To be continued with Chiang Mai - Day 3
