Pattaya
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Showing posts with label Pattaya. Show all posts

Nong Nooch Garden, Pattaya

If you're tired of searching for a place with great landscape, aviary, small zoo, orchid house, and cultural show rolled into one, then I guess you're about to take the rest you've been dying to have. Where exactly? I'm sure sure you've heard the city of Pattaya, but let me just clarify that we're not talking of night life and the happenings from dusk till dawn, alright? This blog is wholesome :)


Just to clear your mind from the dark side that is starting to eat your thoughts, I'm actually talking of a garden. Is something ringing a bell now? I hope so. If not, let me introduce to you this well-managed tropical garden in Pattaya, Thailand known as Noong Nuch. Aside from it holding the crown of the largest variety of orchids and other flora and fauna in the country, Noong Nuch is also one of Asia's largest and most beautiful gardens with 2.0 km2 land area.

So before my mom and my mother-in-law travelled back to the Philippines, we stopped for a few hours to have a taste of it. You know what? We liked it very much especially the elephant show where the giants happily played football, basketball, painting, and the like. It was fun watching them and let me wondered as to how they were trained. If you see that kind of show, would you leave the place without a smile on your face? If you say yes then I dare you to try it yourself. 
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Pattaya Floating Market

One of things that make Thailand different from the rest of its ASEAN neighbours is its floating markets. These markets are like cockroaches, meaning, they're everywhere! Aside from temples and beaches that attract hundreds if not thousands of tourists every single day, floating markets sit on top as well. When we say Thailand, these floating markets cannot be ignored. One of Thailand's landmarks to simply put it.
I've been living here for more than 4 years but it was just in March that I was able to witness a real floating market. Pattaya's floating market is a little bit different as you can see from my photos because of less boats compared to the biggest and most popular market in Ratchaburi. But the thing is even if it doesn't posses all those glittery and colourful boats of other markets, flocks of tourists are still everywhere, locals and internationals. They are jewels of the land of smiles.
These floating markets are among the most photographed tourist destinations in Thailand. They depict what Thai life was long before the supermarkets, skytrains, and skyscrapers alike. Real Thailand? Yes it is!

 PS: Photos were taken in places were tourists seldom go.
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Shopping in Pattaya

Pattaya is probably one of the liveliest cities in Asia just like Hongkong and Singapore. From the capital city of Bangkok, going there would roughly take about two hours max including traffic and all. After my Godson's birthday party in the nearby province of Rayong, we head off to Pattaya to do some shopping.
Our first stop was in the Outlet Mall and there we saw several signature sports wear like addidas, nike, etc at their cheapest. I was stunned. In fact, all of us. We bought a few and hurried out so as to check other goodies in Central Pattaya, one of the biggest shopping mall in the city.
If we were stunned in the Outlet Mall because of the cheapest of the cheapest, we were like more stunned because Central goodies were out of the budget, way too expensive that roughly triple the prices. Because of that, we settled into taking pictures. 
As i have mentioned Pattaya as being lively, night time is like never a night because people don't seem to sleep and only enjoy every bit of being there. Bars, pubs, and other temptations with women are just there. Being dubbed as the "Sin City of Asia, I kinda agree to that. But don't flinch, the city is beautiful and has a lot of interesting spots - PROMISE!


*Pics taken in December 2008
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