I have been in Pattaya ( about 2 hour ride southeast of Bangkok) for 4 days now. So I avoided the big anti-government demonstrations there yesterday. I am due to go back to BKK on Friday, but if things get crazy then I will stay away from there.
The routine is similar with some beach days...it is unusually cold and windy hear but temperature in low 80s F and the sun is warming. It does get to below 70F in the nite. Brrrrrrr!
The beach:
Yesterday a friend and I went to a place about 30 minutes south of Pattaya called Nongnooch Gardens. It is a mixture of European formal gardens, zoo and elephant camp in a carnival, circus-like setting. It was interesting but unsettling because everything was very unnatural to entertain the tourists.
The gardens were beautiful:
They had a beautiful tiger with which you could have your picture taken (for 100 Baht):
And an elephant show that had every trick in the book: painting, soccer, basketball, dancing,
lifting visitors by the trunks, feeding them bananas, with the animals
(elephants dressed in silly costumes:
There was a mock war scene at he Thai cultural show:
And for an extra fee you could take an 20min elephant ride on the paved grounds:
Among the most interesting items were the children visiting:
I think visit to the Elephant Camps around Chiangmai are a better, more natural experience.
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