Bang Sean and Ban Prap

Bang Sean: 19/4/2011

blowout with hotel room.  Nice but expensive. I was wasted and just wanted a bed.  Rode down to dinner and found another place that looked a whole lot cheaper.  Leaving the next day I biked in what felt like a loop and found about 3 other places grrr.

Although I have been cycling along 3 lane split highways I still manage to get lost at some of the crazy intersections.  I’m getting pretty good at the good old u turn and ride on the wrong side of the road to get back to where I want.  I’m getting use to people steering at me and wondering what they hell I’m doing.

Ban Prap: 20/4/2011

Keen to put some k’s behind me today and get to Pattaya.

Khao Khiew Open Zoo. Sounds cool maybe I’ll take a wee detour there.

“Hey! Where’re you cycling to?”

What the hell that guy in the car just yelled some English at me.

“Kheo Kiao Open Zoo then down to Pattaya.”

And that is how I meet Neil Willmann an American guy that had a farm stay and introduced me to warmshowers.org – sounds a bit dodgy but it’s a website for cycle tourist to find cheap homestay accommodation.  Unfortunately there aren’t many in South East Asia, but he is one!

So I checked out the open zoo just cruising around on the bike feeding random animals – hippos were hilarious. Camera crapped itself.  Pictures went white the light filter or something exploded and that was that Unfortunately my camera crapped itself so photos are a bit average and not many. 

The Farm Stay

Low on time I decided to head back to Neil’s farm stay which was really cool.  The farm is based around sustainability and using manual labour for much of the work.  Irrigation was all controlled by gravity from a main pond which is planned to be made bigger so fish can breed in it and add nitrogen to the water.  Plants were everywhere and most things attempted to be grown.  The best part was there was a bunch of travellers just hanging out and I was able to talk to people again!  Dinner and breakfast all cooked up and for a very small price and bit of work the in the morning – helped plant some chives in the morning.

My bed - pretty hot that night!