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 | elgar |  | Asia Main Course Summer 2011 |  | Nakhon Si Thammarat |
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Amphoe Muang Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand
Moving on we drove away from Thale Noi and carried on North; we stopped at the city of Nakhon Si Thammarit. This is a fairly unassuming town with a couple of hotels, one of which we checked into. A walk around town at school kicking out time was fun as there were legions of moto buses with smart uniformed teenagers hanging out. There were also lots of kids walking along, many of whom waved at us out of curiosity. We spent a couple of nights here. The highlight was the A & A cafe where we had our evening meal on the first night and breakfast the next day. This was a lovely place opposite our hotel, which served meals, tea, cake and all sorts of nice things.
On one of the days we had decided to make a trip to the Khao Luang National park. The guidebook and Internet promised us all sorts of wild life delights. We had geared up for an early start but in the end it was not that early after all. We headed out of town along the main road, which lead us to a military road check. The officer on guard spoke to us in Thai, me guessing that he wanted to see our driving licences as the previous one had. However this guard did not appear to speak any English at all and we tried to figure out what he wanted. He looked at us; he shook his head and looked to his colleagues who could offer him no assistance. Finally we decided that he wanted to know where we were going. My attempt at Khao Leung got no further so then we waved the map at him and pointed at the place on it where we thought we were going. Smiles! That seemed to do the trick and he waved us on.
We followed our directions as best as possible but soon came to a point where the milestones confused us. They seemed to be telling us that the junction we had approached was the road we thought we were already on. So we drove up and down it for a bit before going back to route one.
However, once underway the roads kept disappearing and we found that quite major roads had been washed away by torrential rain. (A few weeks after our return home, Thailand was engulfed in terrible floods that threatened Bangkok itself.)
We found ourselves back near the coast and stopped a couple of times to look at the water and paddle in the Andaman Sea. Once we were heading for home we found a small fishing village where we stopped for a cola and were looked after by a delightful hostess before we went on our way.
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