The Hungarian Padthai

  After the long cave-trip, we decided to go on short trips every day! Already on the next day - Thursday, we visited Wat Huay Mongkol. Mongkol was a famous monk, who lived for many years and this is his biggest statue of him in the country! It was beautiful! It was about a 30-minute drive from Hua Hin.It was not only about this statue though - which is the biggest pilgrim-place in the country, but it had different activities to do. First, if you are with a little child, you can buy a fish for 100B and set it free (like a good luck fish). I, on the other hand, went wandering around the floating floor. I found a small sanctuary of the monk. I bought some flowers and lit some incense: I meditated for a bright future. Then left. When I saw a big ole' Buddha just out in the nowhere! :-O It was really unexpected and beautiful! :-)  On Friday (our last day), we visited the Royal Summer Palace. If you're from Europe and you got used to the residences like Schönbrunn, Vienna, don't...

  My Hungarian friends invited me to their autumn holiday - and since I don't have a driving licence, and also had no plans (remember, I've just got here), I accepted this invitation. We left Saraburi and we drove 5 hours to arrive at Hua Hin. On the first couple of days, we really didn't do anything - just lying on the beach, walking up and down in town, eating and sleeping a lot. It was necessary, as I was quite knackered from school, to be honest. (I love my job, but it's a challenge sometimes, so it's nice to switch off. :-) )  On Tuesday, we started to make little trips. First, we went to the 'Monkey Hill', where I didn't take many pictures, as this hill is inhabited by wild monkeys - even one of them, as I was trying to put my camera into my bagpack, heard the noise and wanted to look into it if I had some foods for him. Here are some pictures though, from the safe area:  Buddha... Buddha everywhere...  There is a crack in everything. That's wh...

  I am still desperately reaching out for people and looking for friends - I feel like colleagues are not enough. This has a bit more personal reason, as well - maybe later I'll share that one, too. Enough is enough, this week, I reached out again on my usual social network I use for making friends: Couchsurfing. I went to Saraburi and messaged three people that looked interesting. W. met up with me immediately, the following day, and we went shopping, whereas S. had offered me to take me on a trip. She said, she had planned to visit the Krok E Dok waterfall for ages and this Saturday was the perfect timing for it.  Remembering from my South American experience, I had expected a quick 2-3 hour hike, the view of a distant waterfall, and then maybe some sweating. However, this was not the case! :-D  First of all, when S. picked me up (at 6 am in front of my apartment), she announced that one of her tires had gone flat! Now imagine looking for a car mechanic at dawn (it was ...