Pattaya                                                                                                                                                  






At 7:30 AM a driver met us and drove us to the ciy of Pattaya.  A very interesting drive.  I am getting accustomed to them driving on the wrong side of the road from the wrong side of the car.

 

Fan Palm

 

View along the way

 

Arriving in Pattaya we were taken the hotel where we would stay.  A friend of Batty's is the manager.  She locked the door for the day and was our driver.  Our first stop was a local noodle shop.

 

 

Noodle shop

 

In front of the noodle shop

 

Happy family

 

From the noodle shop we went to Nong Nooch Tropical Botonical Garden and Resort.  As the elephant show was soon to start we went directly there.

 

 

Entrance to the park

 

Bert & Brian on a dancing elephant

 

Eating bananas

 

Before the show people could get their pictures taken with them.  They were lined up along the fence and people fed them bananas.  After the show they came back for more and tips from the audience.  If you gave them and banana they ate it, money they gave it to their trainer.

 

On the way to the elephant ride tigers were laying on rocks for us to take their picture.

 

 

 

After the show Bert and I took an elephant ride.  Very bumpy and swaying.  I enjoyed the experence.  Another new experience I can add to my list.

 

We then took an open bus tour of the park.  Much work has gone into the making of this park.  Many sculptured trees and lots of flowers.  Many groups of cement animals in groups throughout the park.

 

 

A family of cement giraffes

 

 

Sculptered trees

 

 

Terracotta pot sculpture

 

 

More sculptured trees

 

 

Temple

 

 

Sticky frog that hopped a ride on our bus

 

 

Small temples in lovely gardens

 

 

This picture is for Aunt Shelley.

Brian with Galopagus Turtle.

 

 

As it is again time to eat we headed towards the beach for supper under the coconut palms along the beach of the Thai Bay.

 

 

The skyline of Pattaya

 

The cafe people law down bamboo mats, place a low table on them and bring chairs for we Americans.  Then the food starts coming, course after course, refills of most everything.  Very enjoyable and pretty.

 

 

Cutest little boy that kept coming over to see Brian,

 

 

After this we headed back to Pattaya

 had a massage and then off to bed as we had a very early wake up call. A driver was there at 4:30 AM to take us back to the Bangkok airport to fly to Batty's place.