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Five hours from Bangkok and one more on a speedboat,
and we arrived on Koh Mak (Mak Island),
one of the most famous tourist destinations in Thailand.
(I mean, really, 90% of the tourists there were non-Thai.)

I'm not a fan of beaches and too much sun, but I've got to admit this one blew my mind.
I didn't get as many pics I as wanted though because
1) I was an idiot for packing only one set of battery
(which was of course the one already in the camera *shakes head*) and
2) water and camera? Not a good combination.
So when we went snorkeling around nearby islands, I didn't bring it along.

Anyway, just thought I'd share the pretties!



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It's been a while. Here's another epic picspam for a challenge over at picspammy.

I'm not the kind of person who talks about where I come from. By no means that I am ashamed of my homeland. I just find talking about it kind of strange and irrelevant when we're online. Most of us are here to get away from our mundane life in our extremely ordinary country. Sometimes we don't understand why people want to come to a place where we can barely survive to relax and recharge.

Oftentimes we need to see 'the ordinary' through someone else's eyes in order to see the beauty of where we live and realize how much we don't ever want to be taken away from it, because it's the one place we know we can always come back to.

I'm not making this picspam to tell people how awesome my home country is, but to remind myself not to ever forget that.



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Pattaya is by no means the best beach in Thailand,
but it's only 2 hours from Bangkok and the food is awesome.



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Special thanks:
nami_go, a swim suit loaner who got us in a five-star hotel/resort almost for free
lullabelle21, my emotional refuge when Korean pop idols consumed our car and hotel rooms
and Tao, an ever so lovely guide who never gives up on good food and young love

One of my best friends and I went on a little trip this past Sunday. It was like the only day last week that didn't rain like crazy. Luck or fate I'm still not sure, lol.

We drove about an hour from Bangkok to...





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Just some pics from a short trip we took to Sukhothai
(a province in the north of Thailand) this past weekend.
Historical sites are my favorite places to travel.
Plus, it was a very good exercise, lol.



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