Ban Chang Trip (May 5 - 7, 2006)

Getting ready for my second beach trip, this time I will go with Paui and Rochie. Hmmm, I feel like a third wheel, maybe it's because I am. The trip was supposed to ba a backpackers trip, which initially we though that it will be cheap and easy. But some other unforseen things happened cause everything was done "last minute". Anyway, the day started with some booboos. Last night I set my alarm clock to go off at 5:00 but stupidly, I did not activate it. So Rochie woke me up around 5:30 and we have to hurry to Ekkamai bus station since the bus will leave at 6:00. Luckily, they asked me to buy the tickets the day before, so we have our seats. This was a long weekened so almost all the bus and resorts/hotels are full. We reached Ban Phe around 9:00 and started to ask around for our resort. We booked at Phala Cliff Beach Resort and Spa, which is more than half an hour from Ban Phe. We took a Song Thao (a pick up vehicle) going to the resort and it costs us 700 Baht. After reaching the resort, we checked in and make a plan for our 3 day trip. We rest a bit and went for brunch. We walked around the resort and beach then decided to take a dip at their pool. We left the resort around 16:00 and decided to go to Pattaya, now we can start to imagine that our backpack trip became a road tour. The bus trip from Ban Chang to Pattaya took around 1 hour. We went to walking street and had seafood dinner then walked around Pattaya beach. We went back to Lotus and bought some snacks and had coffee before taking the bus back to Ban Chang. We reached the resort around 23:30.

Second day we went to Ko Samet. Woke up aropund 8:00, had breakfast and left the resort around 10. Took a bus going to Rayong City then song thao going to Ban Phe. We met a lady who offered us to go with her, eventually she told us that she was the owner of one of the pier. She paid for our ride but in turn offered us to get tickets from her pier. The ticket cost us 100 Baht round trip, which I think is cheaper from the other pier. We took a boat going to Koh Samet. Reaching Koh Samet was one of Paui's happiest moment, aside from the fact that he went there with Khun Suai. Ohhh yeah, Khun Suai is actually Rochie hahaha. The Thai inspired Filipina who would always become our translator and the person to buy the tickets. She was able to get the park tickets at 20 Baht per person. Normally, Farangs (foreigners) would have to pay 200 Baht. We went to Hat Saikeaw which is one of the most famous beach in Koh Samet and stayed there for the whole afternoon. So what did we do in Koh Samet, swimming, eating, chatting, eating, girl/guy watching, eating, Rochie and Paui went for Jet Ski, eating, Paui went for massage, I bought a new pair of flip flops, shower, eating ice cream and waited for the boat to bring us back to Ban Phe. After reaching the Pier we went for dinner. We saw the lady againa nsd she offered to help us arrange a ride going back to our resort. Finally, we settled on hiring a car to birng us to our resort for 1000 Baht. We stopped by 7-11 to buys some drinks and a deck of playing cards. Second day, second session. This time I did not miss the action or part of it, since I do not drink alcohol, so I tried Rochie's favorite Bacardi Breezer, Orange. Hmmm, won't be my favorite. Played a few game of cards and went to bed.

Third and last day of this so called backpacker trip, woke up around 9:00 and went for breakfast. We are more relaxed to since we will not be travellig to any beach resorts anymore, so after breakfast we went back to the room and slowly started preparing. We checked out at 13:00 and started, supposedly, an easy trip back to Bangkok. It was supposed to be easy, get a bus going to Ekkamai but somehow, there won't be any easy trip for this outing. We took a bus going to Pattaya. We went to Pattaya Noi to get another bus going to Ekkamai. So that's how we did our fun-filled, backpacker converted to road trip, vacation.

BTW, if someone needs more info about the honeymoon then you can mail me separately. I did a separate documentataion, literally became the scorer. Where did this picture came from??? :P