Prachup Khiri Khan

We stayed here for only one day and night but it was very nice. A lot nicer than Hua-Hin. It was a bit further south on the coast. On the first day we explored the place. There was a good looking temple on top of a big hill. There were a lot of steps and a lot of monkeys. We went for the steps first. I counted them and there were 376 one way so by the time we made it back to the bottom we had done around 752 steps! On the way up it was really hot so we had to stop quite a few times but once we were at the top the view was amazing. When we decided to go back down though, we had a small problem. On their way up were a lot of young monks. We had to tread carefully as we couldn't touch them but the were all running around having fun. They even tried to take pictures of us. I thought it should have been the other way around so I took one of them as well. 

One funny part of the way down was when a monkey hit one of the older monks. He wasn't pleased! Once at the bottom we went to go find more monkeys. We found them in a cave which after a while we realised was their territory and then had to run away as they started to growl and chase us! It was actually really scary as I have no idea how to fend of a monkey. In the afternoon we walked up the beach and in the evening we were fortunate enough to be around for a big market thong which happened on that day. It was by the beach and had a number of food stalls and other stalls with different objects. We also watched some students from a music school perform which was nice. The next day we made our way to Petchaburi.