Bohemia Bunny

Day 6 - Life on 20 ringgit a day

May 29th, 2006 by lynnylchan under Leisure

Today was a very lazy day. The original plan was to head out to Tiger Cave Temple, but the boyfriend didn’t feel so good so we stayed in until lunchtime. It turned out to be just as well, I forgot it was Vesak Day, so the temple would have been super crowded.

We walked down the length of Noppharat Thara beach looking for cheap hawker food. The weather was bright and hot and to add to that, the day trippers were particularly numerous. Eventually we stopped at a Muslim food stall for rice. Our bill came to 65 baht for 2 plates of fried rice, instead of 60 baht because I opened a bottle of drinking water. I figure 5 baht for a big bottle of clean water isn’t too bad a deal.

We hopped on a bus for the ride back because it was simply too hot to walk that far. We emerged from the room after 6 pm (like vampires, hahaha) when the sun was lowering, to collect our laundry from the shop down the road. We originally headed to the Last Cafe on Ao Nang but we couldn’t find it, and we had the same luck with Cafe 154. So eventually we ate Pad Thai and seafood noodles at a roadside stall. It was another 60-baht meal, and this time we walked back to our hotel to save on bus fare.