Note – Richard and I spent 19 days in Thailand with our grandson, Kahlil, and daughter-in-law, Susy. This blog post – edited slightly for spelling and sentence structure- was written by Kahlil.
My mom and I flew from El Salvador to Los Angels and hoped to ate at In-N-Out but it was closed. Then we flew to Japan and then to Bangkok where we met my grandparent (I call them Aba and MoManAziz). We were in Bangkok for a couple of days. We took the ferry to a couple of temples. We saw a lot of statues but I didn’t know who they were. We also saw a lot of Buddha’s. The temple was very spiky.
We got on a sleeper train then a bus then a ferry to Ko Pha Ngan. We had a very nice family room and the resort had a pool and the beach was right there. MoManAziz and I found a very beautiful shell. The beach was very calm.
Aba and I went fishing on a boat. The first fish was caught by the captain. He caught like ten fish. The other captain caught a giant and poisonous fish but they threw it back in to the ocean. We then moved to an another location and there I caught six fish!!! 🙂 Then Aba got five!!! Then we went snorkeling and I saw the fishes’ homes and I saw corals. Aba stood on one.
Our next stop was Phuket. We traveled by ferry and bus. That night we went to the night market where I got my Thai boxing shorts and tried durian. I didn’t care for it☹️
Our next adventure was visiting the tigers. My mom and I went inside the baby tigers cage. Both of them were 5 month old and they had giant paws!!!The tiger was my size and weighed about 100 pounds. The first one was calm but the second one was a little feisty. They were very soft.
Then we went to the up side down house. It wasn’t really up side down but when you edited the picture it looks like it’s up side down and everything that was on the ceiling was on the floor and you on the ceiling.
Then we went to the 3D museum. They are really picture but when you see the photo it looks like its in 3D and in one I was peeing with the incredible hulk and in another MoManAziz was about to fall into the lava and Momma and I were trying to save her!!!
We visited a vey pretty temple. There were like fifty Buddha. Some were golden, one was the seven headed Buddha, there was sleeping Buddha, a standing Buddha and a siting Buddha.
Our driver’s name was Mr. Moi. He took us to the giant laughing Buddha. The Buddha had the biggest belly I have ever seen. There is big space under the Buddha were the monks slept in and read books.
Then we went to the beach that was five minutes from our hotel and and when we came back I was sick and I vomited three times and one of those three times it was at midnight.
Our next adventure was to drive a tuk-tuk truck to Wat chai Thararam. We had to climb 300 steps to get to the top. The temple was nice and had a great view.
Our next journey was to the elephant sanctuary. We fed the elephants and learned that they eat 300 bananas per day. There are 86 rescued elephants there so that is 2000 dollars for Bananas for one elephant per year. We touched the elephant’s hair and body then we put mud on elephants and then put water on them then we put more mud on them but not only on the elephants but also one each other 🙂We then went to the river and washed ourselves and said goodbye to the elephants and we left.
Our next adventure was a cooking class. My loved MoManAziz was sick so it was just Aba, Momma and I. First we went to a market that had every thing. It had the powder for Thai tea (my favorite drink) and the Bael fruit tea (which I also like). We got some of each to bring home. They had durian candy, too. We then went to the cooking class. I cooked spring roll, green curry, sticky rice and Cashew chicken salad and they gave us a cook book. They had a giant farm and grow like every thing they even had roosters. They had water snakes and a little river and pond. Some of the students in our class were from Korea and they made us laugh.
We took a one-day trip to Chiang Rai. We went to a hot spring where we bought eggs from a lady and cooked them in the water that was 95 degrees Celsius. We then went to the White Temple. When you enter the temple you see all these hands coming out of hell so you need to walk quick to enter paradise (heaven) hall. My wish will come true because all six times my coins landed in the lotus in the middle of the wishing well. It was very funny to go to the bathroom in a golden toilet.
We then visited the Black House. The owner collected animal skins and other things. He died three years ago. He had a lot of teak wood and did beautiful carvings. He made chairs out of bull horns after the bulls were dead.
One of the interesting events of this tour was to get on a boat and go to Golden Triangle where for a few minutes we were on Mekong river between three countries (Myanmar, Thailand and Laos). I got a visa for Laos and did a little shopping there.
We went to the Baha’i center in Chiang Mai for the Martyrdom of the Bab on July 10. It was nice to meet the very nice Baha’is.
We then took the bus to Sukhathai which is a UNESCO World Heritage city. We rented a golf cart and drove through many historic sites with beautiful old temples some really really old. I found a colorful lizard on a tree that no one else had noticed.
We are now on the bus heading to Bangkok to meet up with my Papa and sister and begin our tour of Vietnam and Cambodia.
Here is a link to just a few of the thousand photos of our trip, some of them taken by me:
“The earth is but one country” 