Pattaya City

 The city known with its wild nightlife scenes. 

Yes, it really is!  The scenes I saw that night disclosed my naiveté of those things. Everything I witnessed with my naked eyes truly shocked me. It was much beyond my imagination. "smirk" And I was very startled when that man above gave a  light touch on my shoulder just to joke around.  Now, I know how the city looks like at night specifically the Walking Street! Hahahaha!!! 

But surely there's a lot more to see nearby or within the city, like Silverlake Winery, temples, museums,etc. And since my friends and I just only had 2 days off, I can only show you two beautiful places worth the visit.

1.  Noong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden

It's a very large area of land that's developed into a botanical garden and tourist attraction. We need 500 baht for the entrance fee and that includes a cultural viewing and elephant show. 

Here are some of the things you can see and do inside Noong Nooch:

- cultural show

At first, I was not that eager to watch because I felt a bit sleepy and tired because of the heat outside. But, I felt alive when I saw the martial arts demonstration and the "battle" performance." And my friend beside me was a talker and droll. Who wouldn't wake up? Hahaha

- elephant show

Aren't they lovely?

Feel it? (massage time)

meeting a new friend ;-)

That made my day! I enjoyed a lot and couldn't even close my mouth during the whole show. Hahaha! They were so admirable and it was just so amazing to see them doing some of the things people do. They played football, dart, some rode a bicycle and even painted. Gosh! But the cutest thing I saw was that, they did "sawasdee" gesture by bending their front feet and pointing their trunk on top. (No pics of the above mentioned, only videos.)

- the lovely gardens 

The one in black seems an outcast, but he's actually not. *o*

The gardens were all lovely! Looking at them freshened up my thoughts especially the French and Stonehenge gardens. It felt so serene that my friend (Zie) wanted to make lesson plans over there.Lol 

- "playing," fish feeding, swimming, etc.

Unfortunately, we were not able to see everything inside the area. It was so big that we were very tired walking around already plus the heat of the sun. Waaaaaaaaahhhh! 

2.  Koh Larn 

Swimming at the beach was the most anticipated of our trip. And it was holiday, so a huge crowd was expected, but the shoreline was surprising. I thought there would be a little space left for us. Wow! The coastline was so wide and the sandbar was incredible!

(To get there: You can just walk straight along the Walking Street and you can see the dock at the end. Either you go by speedboat (more or less 2,000 baht) or a ferry (more or less 40 baht). 

a small part of the shoreline

Having a break with very good friends is priceless! It's about celebrating life and friendship. :-)

Thanks for checking this out guys! Xoxo!