It was April when I first traveled to Thailand. I visited
my husband in Kabinburi Thailand where he used to work. I was happy that he had
nice Thai office mate named Sungkram. Sungkram knew that I was there in the
house-the whole day while my husband was working. I was afraid to go out
because I knew nothing about Thai Language and only very few of them could
understand English in that place. That was why - when Sungkram with her girlfriend
Kung, invited us to go with them in Chantaburi, we were excited to go with
them. I thought all we have to do were only to visit Kung’s mom who was a farmer.
But, how nice Kung and Sungkram was, they have toured us to the culture and
beautiful place in Chantaburi for free.
While we were on our way to Chantaburi, we saw groups of white particles. I was asking amazingly, what was that? Sungkram said: a salt farm, then I told him, oh..I haven’t seen such in my whole life! Nicely, Sungkram stopped his car and we took a quick looked of the Salt Farm. We met Thai Salt Farmers and they gave us nippy information about how the rock salt was being processed.
The filtered sea water was exposed to the sunlight.
Harvest time. 
Bangkok Santol
While we were on our way to Chantaburi, we saw groups of white particles. I was asking amazingly, what was that? Sungkram said: a salt farm, then I told him, oh..I haven’t seen such in my whole life! Nicely, Sungkram stopped his car and we took a quick looked of the Salt Farm. We met Thai Salt Farmers and they gave us nippy information about how the rock salt was being processed.
And when it dried up it formed small particles like crystals and
that was the rock salt.
Sold to the consumer. I bought I small plastic for 10bhat.
Since it was April and it was harvests time for Magoesteen,
Rambutan and Durian the 3 main fruit products of Chantaburi. They took us to
the farm of these three main fruits and we took the fruits by
ourselves with the help of Kung’s mom and relatives.
Mangoes teen Farm
Mangoes teen Farm
Rambutan farm
Durian Farm- Durian was one of the popular export fruit of
Thailand for JaPan. Some of these Durians were for export to Japan and some for
local consumers. Kung’s relative were helping one another for a harvest and a
big sale. Emagine for that harvest they were expecting 400,000bhat sale.
Bangkok Santol
The fruits were juicy most especially eating them right away
from the harvest.
After the Fruit Farm visit, we went to Namtokphilio National Park. Just
outside the park there were string beans sold. I was wondering, what were these
string beans for? When we started stolling inside it was a wide stages of falls
and many were having swimming with the fishes?! Then, Sungkram, threw the
string beans in the falls. The fishes weere competing eating the beans. It was
really fun. Amazing the people didn’t
fry them; instead they were having fun and feeding them. When we reached at the
top most part of the falls, Kung and I had fun swimming with the fishes. It was
again a very memorable, fun experience in Thailand.
