Welcome to Part Two of my Thailand Trip which will highlight HuaHin & Cha-Am, Santorini Park, Swiss Sheep Farm, FN Outlet, Venezia, Cicada Market and Plearn Wan Street. Hope you enjoy the previous post. :D
Overview
Disclaimer: This
plan is based on 2 persons package where I went with my boyfriend J I believe that if you are travelling with more people (in group of
4), the plan will be even more budget friendly as you guys can share transport
cost!!!
Day One (Read here): Having to reach Bangkok
at about 7pm, we plan to travel from the airport to our hotel to put our
luggage before exploring
DMK
Airport ® Hotel (On Nut) ® Talad Rod Fai Train Market
Day Two (Read here): Before conquering
the famous chatuchak weekend market, we need to have energy. As such, we will
be visiting a famous and vintage breakfast house (On lok Yun) for soft and
traditional bread. At the later half of the afternoon, we will be immersing
ourselves in the pretty scenery of European style ville at the chocolate ville.
On Lok Yun® Chatuchak Weekend Market® Chocolate Ville
Day Three : We set off at about 6am to reach huahin,
an outskirt of bangkok where we get to enjoy the majestic view of santorini
park as well as playing with the sheep at swiss sheep farm. We took a breather
from attraction by visiting the FN outlet which sells many local designers
products before setting our foot at Venezia park. Lastly, we did some shopping
and fill our tummy at their local night markets (Cicada Market & Plearn Wan
Street )
Huahin® Santorini Park® Swiss Sheep Farm® FN Outlet® Venezia® Cicada Market® Plearn Wan Street
Day Four (Read here): We travel back to bangkok where we step
food at the shopping heaven (Platinum Mall & Pratunam market). We can’t possibly
say that we have visited Bangkok without trying local delights. Hence we visited
Ban Khun Mae restaurant for authentic thai food as well as desserts at Mango
Tango and After You café.
Bangkok ® Platinum Mall ® Mango Tango® Ban Khun Mae® After you Cafe® Pratunam market(night)
Day Five (Read here): It’s our last day of our trip. We did
some last min shopping at Pratunam
market and platinum mall before visiting the Caturday Cat Cafe
Pratunam Market (morning) ® Platinum Mall ® Caturday Cat
Cafe
Summary
Date
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Day
1 (23rd Oct)
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Day
2 (24th Oct)
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Day
3 (25th Oct)
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Day
4 (26th Oct)
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Day
5 (27th Oct)
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Summary of Activities
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Airport
®
Talad Rod Fai Train Market
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On
Lok Yun ®
Chatuchak Weekend Market ®Chocolate Ville
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Huahin
®
Santorini Park ® Swiss Sheep Farm ® FN Outlet ®Venezia ® Cicada Market ® Plearn Wan Street
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Platinum
Mall ®
Mango Tango ®Ban Kun Mae® After You Café
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Pratunam
Market®
Platinum Mall ® Caturday Cat Café
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Morning
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On
Lok Yun
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-Santorini
Park
-Swiss
Sheep
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-Pratunam
Market
- Platinum
Mall
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Afternoon
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Chatuchak
Weekend Market
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-FN
Outlet
-Venezia
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Platinum
Mall
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Caturday
Cat Café
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Evening
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Talad
Rod Fai Train Market
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Chocolate
Ville
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-Cicada
Market
-Plearn
Wan Street
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-Mango
Tango
-Ban
Kun Mae
-After
You Café
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Stay
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S50
Sukhumvit Hotel
925baht(SGD37)
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Phranakorn-Nonlern
Boutique Hotel
2600baht
(SGD104)
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Juntima
Boutique Hotel
725baht (SGD29)
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Hotel
Vista Express
(SGD64)
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Room Type / Breakfast
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Double
Room
No
breakfast
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Double
Room
Breakfast
incl
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Villa
No
Breakfast
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Double
Room
No
breakfast
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Day 3
This day was
relatively stressful as we knew we have a tight schedule that we have planned
to conquer. We left the hotel in the early morning 6am just because we were
leaving Bangkok to another popular tourism location – Hua Hin & Cha-am!! We
chanced on this place while we were searching for more funs in Bangkok, we took
the itinerary from several tourism agencies and saw this beautiful place! Since
neither of us ever been to Hua Hin, this was immediately added to our iternary
to experience new fun. We contacted and rent a private car together with the
driver – Nok(nokwalail7@gmail.com) , for one whole day in order to go to
all attractions we have planned. We were very excited along the way to Hua Hin
yet right after 30mins setoff, we couldn’t resist the sleepiness and continued
our sleep in the car.
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| Setting Off To Hua Hin |
The journey to
Hua Hin takes about 2 hours time as it was about 200km away from Bangkok. It
was quite smooth traffic, maybe due to our very early setting off time, and it
was all travelled on a Highway. We reached Hua Hin unknowingly as we were busy sleeping on the car. First thing upon arrival, of
course was our breakfast!! We spoke to our driver Nok to recommend some of the
nice place for breakfast thus he brought us to a very nice scenery restaurant
(1,000 Sook Food & Farm) which as situated by the
road. However, it wasn’t open yet as it was too early.
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So pity that it didn’t open as we came too early… But we would definitely come back one day…
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We couldn’t wait as we were on tight schedule. In a minute of
time, Nok turned his car and headed to another direction for our breakfast. He
brought us to a place where we should have include it in our plan yet due to
tight schedule, we gave it up – The Hua Hin Beach !!
There were lots of shops along Huahin beach where you could see
tourists visiting the place. Nok spent some time on searching for the correct
restaurant as we told him earlier on that we would like to try some local Thai
foods. It really took some time…until our tummy couldn’t take it and we told
him to stop brain-storming and stop-by at one of the Thai restaurant to order
our breakfast.
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| Huahin Beach |
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| Traditional Thai Milk Tea |
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Couldn’t resist the green curry especially in Thailand….
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After filling up our stomach, we were ready to go for our first
destination in HuaHin!! It was a very scenery place, where many people in the
world would like to go – The Santorini Park ! Here are some beautiful photos we
taken.
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| At The Entrance, Ready To Go |
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| Entrance Ticket |
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| The Fountain at the entrance. .isn't it beautiful |
We
entered the park effortlessly without any queue as we arrive at the place
minutes after its opening hours, thus there were not many people. We couldn’t
be more excited and quickly went into the park to begin our adventure!
The
park was indeed decorated in the Greece Santorini feel with lots of blue and
white colour buildings. Even the tiles were detailed in every step to ensure tourists
enjoy their time at “Santorini”.
The
shops however were not much of a choice as they were mostly selling souvenirs,
clothing, women’s handbag (The Naraya :)) and some toys. We did notice most of
the tourists were walking into the shops yet came out with bare hand.
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| Does It has Santorini Feel?? |
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| More Pictures |
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| You can pay to sit the ferries Wheel too |
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| Heart Heart Heart |
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| One cheesy Photo |
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| 羞羞。。shy shy |
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Guess where am I? It’s the washroom!! Can feel the park indeed put in effort for decoration :)
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After spending hours
in the park, we start to realize that the reason behind why the park was not
crowded was not due to us being early but rather it was because it did not
attract many tourists. It was weekend yet the visitors volume was not that
optimum. Maybe because it was at the outskirt of Bangkok thus lesser people are
willing to travel here. However this also created very good opportunity for us
to take photos at places we like and we could take as long as we wish to come
out with the pictures we wanted.
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| Every rides need to pay…This could deter tourists ??? |
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| Guess where we were? We had fun on one of the so-called 7D cinema .... It cost us 240baht... not so expensive though. |
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| Maybe this should be consider the most scenery and memorable place to take photo... |
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| Shhhhhhhyyyyyyy...... Don't tell anybody.... |
Don't be mistaken.
The park is still a worth to take a ride place. A place to visit at least once
in a lifetime. The scenery created was still attractive and we enjoyed it. Basically
you would walk from buildings with fully sheltered to an open air spacious area
enjoying memorable moment under the iconic landmark of Santorini ferries wheel.
We were walking under the hot sun thus we didn't spend much time on taking
photos at every corner of the park.
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I will be at the top of the Santorini!!
The top view of Santorini Park. Feel like runner maze huh?
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| Does it look like fairytale setting... |
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My man who is so happy on the carousel. It's his first attempt.
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| Last photo before leaving “Santorini” for another attraction. Show me your true heart :) |
We left Santorini
with happiness and souvenirs. We did feel sad that the place was not in its best condition as some of the shops started to close down
possibly due to low visitors. Some of the places were not well maintained possibly
due to short of fund. Hope our “donation “to the park would
somehow help a little for the park to continue their operating to let more
people get a chance to enjoy this little Santorini.....
Location:
Santorini
Park
Kao
Yai, Cha-am District, Phetchaburi 76120, Thailand
Operating
Hours :
· Monday
– Friday: 1000 – 1900
· Saturday
– Sunday: 0900 – 1900
Fee:
· Entrance
Fee -> 150baht/pax
· Other
ride /Game -> ( 120baht-240baht per game)
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Next, we headed towards the next destination which was just walking distance from Santorini Park - Swiss Sheep Farm. Couldn't imagine sheep under hot sun..?!
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Hello beauty :) My name is Mr. Pumpkin. Would you like to be my girl?
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Can't open my eyes.......
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Sheep eat meat. Don't tell me you don't know?!
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I can understand how you feel with a thick blanket covered on body under hot sun.... get yourself a cool place before fainted...
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| Come come....I pat you. |
We spent some dollars and bucks to feed the
sheeps and the little poney. They were both adorable :)
Even though it was under hot sun, we still
felt lucky without having the need to take photos with our umbrella if it
was a rainy day.
The scene was really good with a mountain
situated just behind the farm. Everything was just so green and natural.
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| Come come....I feed you. |
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Poney
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To our surprise, there is Alpaca!
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Cute :))
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There was a building with air-conditioning
specially built to accommodate the Alpaca to keep them live under cold air.
Before entering the building, we were asked to pay for the entry fees of
50baht/pax, wear the plastic cap provided to ensure no unnecessary materials
sticking on our shoes being brought into the Alpaca home. Alpaca was not fear
of stranger. In fact, they were quite friendly and "cooperative" when
we want to took photos with them :)
Right after the Alpaca visit, it was nearly
time for us to the next destination thus we took another few photos
before leaving the place with full of satisfaction.
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Hand in hand. Love with no end.
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| Shall we build a little house together :) |
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Thank you snowman :) We have a happy day. Hope you won't melt ya ;P
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Location:
Swiss Sheep Farm
Kao Yai, Cha-am District, Phetchaburi 76120, Thailand
Operating Hours :
· Daily: 0900
– 1900
· Entrance
Fee -> 120baht/pax
which include exchange ticket for sheep feeding)
· Pony Feeding -> 20baht per packet
· Alpaca -> 50baht
per pax
Oh ya!! Not to forget – Our lunch!
We were brought by Nok to another surprise
restaurant, somewhere at the sea side to have our lunch. We were hoping to get
something cold to cool down our body at that moment! Luckily it did.
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Sea side restaurant with strong wind ! Nice!!
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Yeah coconut!! Thanks for saving our life ;D
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Next, we moved to a further place - Cha-am.
Cha-am is about 20 minutes driving distance away from Hua Hin.
First shopping destination - FN Factory Outlet (Maybe the only shopping mall???). This outlet is location on the main highway from Hua hin toward Cha-Am. There was huge signboard guiding visitors thus you can never miss this place. We knew this place by recommendation online.
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| Credit: FN Factory Outlet |
FN Factory Outlet refers to FLY NOW Factory
Outlet. Fly Now, is a leading Thai fashion brand established back in 1983.
It has been established in various location selling clothing, accessories,
furniture, gift and even food. Apart from selling its own fashion line, they
also carry products from famous brands such as Polo Ralph Lauren, AX Armani
Exchange, Calvin Klein, DKNY, Greyhound and Zara. As a factory outlet, it
provides goods at discounted price.
The huahin outlet was constructed using glass and steel structures
to create a modern style. There are basically two building connected by a
garden. One building is selling clothing and home decoration
while the other was showcasing the dining, gift and food.
Our main purpose was not to shop anything
but rather to take photo with the "Dinosaur" in front of the mall: D
It was a pretty dinosaur though.
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| Credit: FN Factory Outlet |
Having taken the photo of the dinosaur, we decided to have a high tea under the trees by buying 2 cans of grapes juice and took our rest at the bench provided by the mall. This place really provides us with a lot of comfort. The greenery surrounding the building helps to shelter the hot sun and brings in natural wind.
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The dinosaur that my bf insisted on taking photo with :)
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Greenery surrounding the mall and it was super comfortable to have a high tea under those trees...
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Location:
FN Factory Outlet
Petchkasem Rd., Amphoe Cha-Am, Phetchaburi, Thailand 76120
Operating Hours :
· Daily: 0900
– 2000
Spending about half hour taking some photos and consuming our drink, we then moved to next stop - The Venezia Hua Hin. This was also a very scenic place for photo taking. It contains lots of themes from different countries. However we were shock at the actual condition of the place, as it wasn't clean nor looked like a tourist spot. Fortunately, internal of the park was still acceptable. There were different packages offered by the park, each of them consist of few themes allowed to be visited. We chose the cheapest package as we were not interested in some of the themes and of course to save cost.
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We are at .... not sure
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I am as beauty as swan :P
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Hello, my prince, come and bring me back to castle
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I am not as tall as you. But I am more colourful than you :D
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The Park was basically quite comfortable to
walk around, yet it was also facing the same fate as Santorini Park. Low volume
of visitors (we believed) had made it to be financially difficult to maintain.
Some of the theme gardens were not supposed to be opened to everyone (except
those bought the entrance ticket for it) yet there was no one monitoring.
There was actually shelter outside those gardens for staff to collect ticket to verify their package before allowing them to proceed into the garden.
Since this was the case, we went into those
gardens (without permission, but no one to permit also) to have a look and took
photos also :)
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Musical Garden
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Go! Go! Go! Bring us back to Santa!
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We were arguing whether this was Pikachu...
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Theme at the back : The Venezia Street
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Real street out of drawing
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It's so cold.... Faster faster , take my picture!
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Take a nice winter photo for me ya....
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While we walked
through the shops, most of them were already closed down. There were only few
shops opening and we stop-by and bought few pieces of couple-tee as a support for
them. We felt quite a pity that such a nice place was actually facing the fate
of closing down. This would have become one of the hottest dating spot if it's
in Singapore!! At the same time we felt that we are lucky that we had been here.
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Ooppppss..... Sorry. The archer is on leave.... Help yourself then....
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Hollow man does exist!!!
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So pity that we were not the guest
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Alright. Time to move on. Thanks Venezia for enlighten our day.... Hope we will still have chance to pay you a visit...Wish you all the best...
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Location:
The Venezia Hua Hin
1899 Thanon Phetkasem, Amphoe Cha-Am, Phetchaburi, Thailand 76120
Operating Hours :
· Monday –
Friday, Sunday : 1000 – 2000
· Saturday: 0900
– 2100
Fee:
· Entrance
Fee -> 290baht/pax
for package A ( As mentioned, you can go any place you like since there is no
one stopping you J )
The sky started to turn dark and we still had 2 more stations to
go, we quickly jumped onto car and headed to next destination.
Cicada Market, a night market where you could find hundreds of stalls selling foods, cheap stuffs, handbags etc. It was a nice place for those shoppers. It was just like our Pasar Malam yet it was more organized,beautiful and artsy. Cicada stands for Community of Identity Culture Arts & Dynamic Activities, and happens only from Friday to Sunday. The market has four zones, Art A La Mode, Cicada Art Factory, Amphitheatre and Cicada Cuisine.
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| The stalls Credit: The Cicada Market |
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| The stalls Credit: The Cicada Market |
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| The stalls Credit: The Cicada Market |
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| Live Band Credit: The Cicada Market |
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| Live Band Credit: The Cicada Market |
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| Artist in action Credit: The Cicada Market |
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The little boy attracts lots of tourist as his talent just undeniable!
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We've been here
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Location:
Cicada Market
Khao Takieb-Hua Hin Road or Hua Hin
87, at the entrance to the Hyatt Regency Hotel and before Sasi Theatre.
Operating Hours :
·
Friday – Saturday: 1600 –
2300
· Sunday:
1600 – 2200
Heading to the last destination in Cha-am,
we finally felt relief as our schedule was followed accordingly and none of the
attractions were left out! Yeah!! What a fruitful day :D
The last station - The Plearn Wan Street
was relatively important to us. Not because of it's speciality but because we
haven't had our dinner!! Yes we decided to have our dinner there just because
we wanted to have a beautiful end point for our day. Yes it was quite a
nice scenery street also especially at night.
Plearnwan is derived from a combination of
the English words 'Play and Learn', together with a Thai word ‘Wan’ that means
yesterday. Plearnwan aims to be a place where everyone can play out
the lifestyle of earlier times, and in playing can learn some of the history,
ritual, culture, and arts of living of that period.
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Entrance of Plearn Wan Street
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Indoor area with vintage vibe created. So many of the stalls looks like shop houses
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| Stall selling vintage old-school toys Credit: Plearnwan Hua Hin |
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| StallsCredit: Plearnwan Hua Hin |
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| Local Products Credit: Plearnwan Hua Hin |
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| Vintage Interior Credit: Plearnwan Hua Hin |
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| Basement Shops |
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| Eating Place Credit: Plearnwan Hua Hin |
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Just for show, not for ride
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Just cannot resist! The bread sold there was really soft and fluffy.
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Limited food choice. We chose chicken rice with chrysanthemum tea as our dinner. Taste was normal as the rice does not have the chicken rice fragrance & the chicken was really dry.
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Gem that we found here – MOCHI ICE-CREAM (50 baht each)!!!
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Must try :) Chewy Mochi Coating The Cold & Creamly Ice-cream Within
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| Thai Local Desserts |
Location:
The
Plearn Wan
4/90-95 Soi Moo Ban Bor Fai, Hua Hin 77110
Operating Hours :
· Daily: 0900 – 2100
We finally completed our journey at Hua Hin & Cha-am in
one day. Full Satisfaction. And it was time to rest for tomorrow....
Our driver Nok drove us back to Hua Hin and fortunately, it didn't
spend us much time to locate our accommodation - Juntima Boutique Hotel. We
booked the villa for that night stay at a very affordable price.
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Our driver Nok. Thanks for driving us whole day around so many locations. It's been tough on you since early morning. Hope to see you soon again... korp koon krap and thumbs up!
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Our Villa.. There is a indoor and outdoor shower area. Was too lazy to take photo of it.
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We didn't have time to enjoy the swimming pool facility... But we still enjoy the stunning view and the relaxing feel...
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External View Of Our Villa
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| External View Of Our Hotel |
To learn more about how we spent our adventure in Bangkok Chatuchak & Chocolate ville (read more) or Bangkok café (read more), do visit the individual post :D
Accommodation:
Junitama Boutique Hotel
225 Moo 6, Tumbol Khun Don Huay, Khao Yai
(Cha-am), Hua Hin / Cha-am, Thailand 76120
Cost:
· Villa -> 725baht
Note:
· Hotel staff could not communicate in English.
Although the staff promised to call for mini van for us to go back to Bangkok.
On the next day morning, they have forgotten about it and was
unapologetic. The place was nice to stay in. But staff service required
improvement. The hotel was conveniently located near Santorini Park and Swiss
Sheep Farm. It was along the same main road.
Transportation:
Driver: Nok
· Mobile: 085 6408211 (SMS/LINE)
· Charges: 3000baht/ 14 hrs , 150
baht/hr rate OT
· Vehicle: Toyota Altis – Clean &
Comfortable
· Review:
Drive Safety
Language proficiency - only can communicate
in Thai and very limited English. However, quite well verse in written English.
Suggest you to write down the locations
Travel Time:
· Bangkok --> Hua Hin Santorini Park: 2 hrs
· Santorini Park --> Swiss Sheep farm: 3 mins
· Swiss Sheep Farm --> FN factory outlet: 15 mins
· FN factory outlet --> The Venezia: 20 mins
· The Venezia --> Cicada Market: 15 mins
· Cicada Market --> Plearn Wan Street: 20mins
· Plearn Wan Street --> Juntima Boutique Hotel: 30 mins
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