Last night we discovered our hotel has free bikes for guests, so today we borrowed them! We set off fairly early during the morning mist. It's a lot cooler, jumper weather, in the morning but soon heats up to boiling hot by the afternoon.
We set off towards the countryside to see what we could find. We came across a group of friendly ladies. They were selling sausages at the side of the road and all crowding round, carefully disecting something on the floor. It was a huge jack fruit! They showed us what they were doing and let is try a few pieces. Next, they picked some other fruits from the garden and let us try these too! In return for their entertainment we bought a few things from their stall.
The view of the countryside was wonderful and we cycled to a temple on a hilltop to admire it further. The route to the top was very steep but we just about made it. When we came back down the people at the bottom gave us a round of applause!
We cycled through an arboretum which was pretty, before looping back to our hotel to refill on water! Soon we were off again. More temples, little villages and what we thought was the local hilltribe museum.... maybe once, but there is nothing to see now! We stopped at a small stall to grab lunch and the kind lady threw in dessert as a gift!
Later in the day we discovered a great street market selling predominately food. It was wonderful! So many different, delicious dishes to try. We ate some tiny tofu squares with something on top that we failed to recognise. Next, was a brown squidgy paste in a bag with grated ginger, which came with a type of poppadum. Following this, we tried some spinach squares that tasted divine. For dessert, we ate a cake each, which was so moist and tasted like coconut. Wow! Just to make sure Christine didn't go hungry, we took home a few delicious snacks too....
Signing off... the Crazy Bikers food diary from Thailand!
We set off towards the countryside to see what we could find. We came across a group of friendly ladies. They were selling sausages at the side of the road and all crowding round, carefully disecting something on the floor. It was a huge jack fruit! They showed us what they were doing and let is try a few pieces. Next, they picked some other fruits from the garden and let us try these too! In return for their entertainment we bought a few things from their stall.
The view of the countryside was wonderful and we cycled to a temple on a hilltop to admire it further. The route to the top was very steep but we just about made it. When we came back down the people at the bottom gave us a round of applause!
We cycled through an arboretum which was pretty, before looping back to our hotel to refill on water! Soon we were off again. More temples, little villages and what we thought was the local hilltribe museum.... maybe once, but there is nothing to see now! We stopped at a small stall to grab lunch and the kind lady threw in dessert as a gift!
Later in the day we discovered a great street market selling predominately food. It was wonderful! So many different, delicious dishes to try. We ate some tiny tofu squares with something on top that we failed to recognise. Next, was a brown squidgy paste in a bag with grated ginger, which came with a type of poppadum. Following this, we tried some spinach squares that tasted divine. For dessert, we ate a cake each, which was so moist and tasted like coconut. Wow! Just to make sure Christine didn't go hungry, we took home a few delicious snacks too....
Signing off... the Crazy Bikers food diary from Thailand!
