Wednesday's Anchovies

After Ratchaburi, we traveled to Chom Bueng by Minivan. Roughly a 40-min journey, we reached Rajabhat University which is the starting point for Chom Bueng Marathon as well as race kit collection place. The minivan, convenient, fast and reasonable price! Getting ready for the marathon! Race kit collection area, very systematic and well-decorated LOL :) The running route. Information regarding the race is all being displayed there, so there is no any booklet or brochure in the race kit.  The very dedicated cheer leaders under rehearsal! We were impressed by the cheer leader team last year, and this year they didn't fail to amaze us with their energetic performance :) Good job kids!! After race kit collection, our farm stay owner picked us up and after a ten minutes distance journey, we arrived at the farm village resort, second visit as well :P Click HERE for our first visit :) One year past, the farm village resort had expanded their area, bigger tent...

Good morning Ratchaburi! It is time to explore the morning market :P Hehe, it is always fun to walk into the local market to hunt for food. Our first stop of the day is hawker stall beside the road :P this is our second visit LOL, we been here during our first visit to Ratchaburi last year :P Kick start the day with soy milk, pao and Chinese fried churros. Second stop is a random chicken rice stall :P love the generous portion of chopped chinese parsley on the rice! The rice is nice! Nicer than those famous chicken rice at Bangkok that you need to queue for! No wonder the stall is crowded with locals early in the morning :) Then we walked into the wet market and stopped by at hawker session next to it. Third stop is porridge with some side dish. This is more to Chinese stlye We had pickled radish served with chili (abit spicy, sour and salty) and fried egg with pickled radish. We love pickled radish from Thailand! Hehe, one of the must-buy-item from Th...

Sawadee kap~ We had marvellous time on previous year Chom Bueng Marathon and this is the reason why we are getting back this year :) We chose to travel in the same way, stay in the same hotel…at the end, we felt so warm to able to meet the same person after one year although they cannot even remember us :P Uncle at Numsin Hotel who drawn us map to show us the route, owner of Farm Village Resort who provides us bigger tent this year for better sleep… We arrived at Bangkok in the afternoon, from airport, we took mini bus to Bangkok Southern Bus Terminal and take a mini van to Ratchaburi. Arrived Ratchaburi in the late evening, checked in to Numsin Hotel and started our way to explore Ratchaburi at night, after one year :) We made our way to Ratchaburi night market and started our food hunting night :P One of the landmark besides the clock tower, at Ratchaburi. The night market :) Love this painting corner at the night market :) It is always f...

Hello Thailand! We are back again this year to Chom Bueng, Thailand for marathon :) This is our second consecutive year to back to Chom Bueng, they are celebrating 33th anniversary this year! Click HERE to read about our first Chom Bueng Marathon’s experience! We stayed 6d5n at Thailand this round, covering Bangkok, Ratchaburi and Lopburi. Day 1 KLIA2 – Don Mueang International Airport (DMK) – Take mini bus to Bangkok Southern Bus Terminal – Take mini van to Ratchaburi – Checked in Numsin Hotel at Ratchaburi – Dinner . Day 2 Breakfast – Take mini van from Ratchaburi to Chom Bueng – Collect Chom Bueng 33th International Marathon race kit atRajabhat University – Checked in Farm Village Resort – Dinner at Farm VillageResort. Day 3 Rajabhat University – Flagged off for full marathon runner – Cross the finishing line ^^ - Depart back to Farm Village Resort – Lunch, take bath & rest – Take mini van back to Ratchaburi – Checked in at Numsin Hotel – D...

Gili Air, we are here!!! It was really a smart choice of choosing to spend one night at Gili Air after conquering Mount Rinjani, before departing back to Malaysia. Hehe, it would be perfect if we able to spend few more days LOL. There are few islands nearby Lombok, we chose to stay at Gili Air. According to our guide, Gili Air is more to leisure and relaxing. While Gili Trawangan is a party heaven and Gili Meno is a paradise for honeymoon.  Gili Air is a small island where you get to see local kids play water by the beach, horses are used to give tourist a ride.  Our stay of the day is 7 Sea Cottage, within walking distance from the jetty :) The room is huge, haha, is really with a huge garden before entering into the room, and the room came with a huge bathroom! The garden before entering our room :) Thanks for the hospitality. The room was well-decorated with fresh flowers :) Even in the bathroom :) The place we had our breakfast! Super l...

Selamat pagi. Today is day-3 of our Mount Rinjani hike. So we would be going back to Sembalun Village from Pos 3! After the summit hike the day before, we are all exhausted but recharged after a good sleep at Pos 3. Seem like we did a good choice of not going to Crater Senaru. Hehe. After a good breakfast (we had pineapple pancake and sandwich today), we started our way to descend back to Sembalun Village :) Waving goodbye to Pos 3. From Pos 3 (1800m) back to Sembalun Village (1156m). After the summit hike, everyone was in more relax mood, and excited since finally we get to bath LOL. This is one of the challenge of Mount Rinjani hiking since we cannot bath throughout the 3 days hike T.T Playing around with the baskets carried by our porter. It is not an easy job at all, heavy and would be very difficult due to the not so good road condition. View from some where around Pos 2. We Spent around 4 hrs from Pos 3 to Sembalun Village. After that, we b...

Time to conquer the peak! We wake up 1am plus in the early morning. The weather was so cold that we wrapped up like a dumpling LOL. Milk and cereal was served as a light breakfast before we started the hike. Around 2am, we departed for the summit! The sky is still dark of course so a head lamp is a must. It was a tough hike for us due to the low temperature and also the route condition. At the beginning of the trek, the route is still condition normal. Towards the end, the route is getting more and more steep. The "sandy" route condition made us frustrated since it is really difficult to walk on and the progress is slow. Felt like we moved up 3 steps and slide down 1 step... The closer we were to the summit, the more rest stop we had. Thin air, low temperature and the sandy route made our steps heavier and heavier. I never think that hiking stick is so important. But for this case, hiking stick is really useful! So pl...