Travel to Chantaburi Thailand

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.

And when it dried up it formed small particles like crystals and that was the rock salt.

Harvest time.

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

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.

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