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We were up early as per usual, we hired a moped and went out to find some noodle soup for breakfast, it took us about 6 restaurants until we were nearly about to give up and go to the 7/11 and someone pointed us in the right way.
The food was pretty good, they just leave skin on the chicken all of the time which is so annoying..
We went around the island, I had the map on me and had already googled some of the main ancient ruins and temples that was worth visiting and were a little different from one another.
This town is full of ruins everywhere but now there are shops and houses built around them so it's an historical park with everyone living in it.
The first one was pretty cool, there was a huge Buddha head that was placed on the floor up against a tree and now the roots have grown around it. Most of the Buddhas about the ruins in a lot of Asia have had their heads chopped off, thieves sell them onto people to get money for them because they say that you should never copy a Buddha as it doesn't hold the same power as it does in and from a temple as if it's from a shop so I expect they got quite a bit for them!
We found another one that was pretty big and was a smaller version of angkor wat, they kept wanting us to pay 50baht each to get into these temples so we were refusing and walking away because 100baht all the time between us for us to take a 10-15 minute walk around would have got a little pricey. Next we went to one that didn't require an entry fee, it was tiny and just had monks everywhere and little kids in yellow school uniforms, three came running over to us and immediately thought they wanted money from us, but they were there with their school practicing their English with the foreigners that went to visit the temple. (on a Sunday! There's no way this would happen with our school pupils, they would opt for bed before they went to learn English at a temple) the girl was really good and she was only 10, another 10 year old boy and a little 8 year old followed Scott around. The girl was really good at English and well spoken as well. They kept asking us all the questions like 'what sport do you like? Where are you from? Do you like any school subjects? What do you do for a job? Etc. it was really nice to chat with them and ask them questions aswell to help them learn, there were lots of them dotted about asking us how we were and where we were from.
That out a smile to our face this morning!
Next we went to the leaning Buddha, it was huge! They draped a big orange cloth over it's body, it rained heavy last night so the cloth was dripping wet. I don't find it particularly warm today, it's cloudy and because of the rain last night there was a pretty cool breeze in the air. Not that we were really complaining because when the sun was out it was reaching highs of 37 degrees Celsius!
We went to another temple, one that was a smaller version of Angkor Wat, we had to pay to get in again so we just looked from over the wall, it wasn't as special as Angkor!
We walked through the smelly covered markets that were selling all sorts of rubbish souvenirs and dried fruit. We stumbled across some stalls that were making crepes on a big stove, but the mixture was thick goo that was stuck on the chefs hand and they were just putting a do-lop of it on the stove and it was cooking into thin crepes, green crepes may I add! And then in bags there were what looked like hair but different colours hair like pink and green and yellow. So we bought some, it tasted strangely good, surprising considering we were putting pink candy floss straw 'hair' into a green crepe that looked mouldy! Haha.
We had driven around the whole island by 12.30pm, Attuyaha is an I and because of the river that runs around it, I think it was man made so it could act as a most around the city (when the town was the capital of Thailand)
So we chose eenie-meanie-minee-mo to which 7/11 we were going to to have lunch because there is one on near enough every street corner!
We went back to the hotel and booked flights to and from Malaysia, Indonesia and japan. Feeling productive for once! Scott was glued to the formula one whilst I facetimed home and the evening we went out for a bite to eat for our 141st date night! Haha, 141 days have flown by!!
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