Ohhh , oobee doo 🐵

Jok for breakfast

Then a walk along the beach to Khao Takiab

2.3 miles to the base of the hill leading up to the temple complex., set off early but was still baking by the time I got there.

You can get horse rides on this beach, most of the horses are at the town end of the beach. Bit like Blackpool and the donkeys really, but hotter.

A few small stalls on the way up , so stopped off for a welcome Watermelon shake.

Made a donation and carried on, there were a number of donation boxes throughout the temple complex to help feed the cats, dogs, dogs and cats , and monkeys. Funnily enough I only saw 1 cat, no dogs, lots of monkeys though.

Lot of steps on the journey, more bloody up.

A few shrines on this part of the hill, there were people praying so did not want to take photos, but not a lot to see really. Except for the monkeys 🙈🙉🙊. There are lots of them, but they do not bother you at all like other places. In fact they try and avoid you where possible, they seem quite shy at having photos taken. When I raised the camera to get them face on they just turned away, guess they do not have Instagram.

I wanna be like you.

View from the other side of the hill. A European drowned and was dragged out of the water on this beach, about an hour after the photo was taken. Saw online he may have been Italian and possibly suffered heart attack. I have been on this beach before and it is quite shallow and no current so swimming is not hard there, so maybe just the heat got to the guy. The white temple is the most scenic part of the complex, but my camera battery was just about done. Also it was more up and I was getting hot and tired so just headed downhill.

At the bottom of the hill there is a small fishing village and fish market, lots of restaurants with that days catch and tanks full of crabs, prawns and other weird looking things. If you are not too keen on the smell of fresh fish you wouldn’t like this place. Bit early to eat so I carried on to find the Songthaew back to Hua Hin.

I had a soda water at one of the small shops and to ask the way, the servers in there couldn’t decide the best/quickest way to the station. So took the majority decision on the route by a show of hands.. .i.e who thinks left then right, who thinks right then left ?

They voted the wrong way in the end (a bit like Brexit) and the route took me back to the beach, down a bit, back inland and along. But 15 minutes later here it is.

10 minutes and 24 pence later I was in Swensons cooling down with a Strawberry and Banana ice cream.

Had dinner at a local Thai place in town, Panang curry. It was spicy, salty and sweet but no nuttiness as there is supposed to be. Could taste the lime in the curry sauce though. Also no veg in the curry, I think they were cutting corners. £3.50 with the beer.

Had a few more beers at a couple of bars and then had a coffee at Starbucks before getting a taxi back to the hotel.

Couldn’t decide if I wanted an iced black coffee or a hot black coffee, so the waitress persuaded me to try this thing. I am a sucker for a nice smile. First time I have had anything but black coffee for years, the sun must be getting to me. Iced Salted Caramel Frapuccino and cinammon bun I think.