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Day 3 – Jungle Tour
It’s another one-full-day trip! The journey started as the transfer vehicle picked us up from the hotel at 8:30am. The tour guide briefed that we were going for elephant ride, hotspring and emerald pool. For the first activity which is the elephant ride, we passed through some jungle and oil palm farm which is not unusual for me. After about 1 hour ride, we reached the elephant ride station.
Hairy
Shene & me on the back of the elephant
I was riding on the neck of the elephant! It feel weary.
Group photo with Tim from Ireland and Linda from Norway. I sent her some photos of the trip and she sent back some too. I love to make new friends this way!
After that, we came to the Hotspring of Klong THom, located in the middle of the jungle. It’s natural hotspring with streams of water coming from several unknown sources and the water fills the pool. It’s a natural jacuzzis to lift away tensions and relieve body and mind with the mineral enriched waters. A rule of thumbs when soaking in hotspring is, always soak below the heart and come out from the water every 10minutes. When you feel dizzy, come out from the hot water too. It is always easy to feel thirsty when soaking in hotspring. Thus, prepare some drinking water.
There is this board indicating the mineral of the hotspring.
Shene was enjoying the hotspring.
After some hot shower, we moved forward for some cold shower. Here we are, Emerald Pool of Sa Morakot! It’s a natural wonder where a pond of turquoise water with an aerage temperature of 30-40C, fed by a hotsping in the middle of the jungle. The special characteristic for this pool is the water is emerald in color. Some people call it the emerald in the middle of the jungle. There are a numbers of Emerald Pool around the world and there is one in Krabi. It’s a big pool that suitable for swimming especially for such a hot and tropical weather in Thailand. For the local, it’s a great picnic spot too.
Beautiful Emerald Pool.
The color element that contributes to the emerald pool?
We left Emerald Pool at 4:30pm back to the hotel. After shower and change, we carried on our exploration around Ao Nang as we did not want to miss anything fun and exciting.
A stall selling some gadgets.
Juin told me that, Taro pie is specialty of McDonald Thailand. Yes, I do not see this in Kuala Lumpur. How can I miss it?
Shene was amazed with the LV pattern of the bike seat.
Wow, another big dog.
Buddha statues can be seen in the shop.
Here there was a stall selling T-shirt with creative text or logo printed.
Pancake of Thailand. Although the tour guide told us that the pancake here is similar with what we have in Malaysia, but we insisted to try. It’s not quite the same actually.
Colorful soap carving.
Caramel Machiato of Thailand. A must-try everwhere I go.
Finally, with a powerful yet comfortable sunset massage, we called it a day.
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