An Austrian named Ire I met on couchsurfing invited me for a morning market tour, tim sum breakfast and snorkeling at the Klong Muang beach.
The morning market is a huge local wet market selling everything you can expect a wet market to sell.
Something interesting about this morning market is that at 8am, they will play the Thai national anthem and when the anthem starts to play, everyone will stand still.
After the morning market tour, we went to the nearby tim sum place for breakfast.
The Thai way of serving tim sum is different from Singapore. They just give you a tray of everything and you take what you want to eat and only pay for those.
After breakfast, we took a half hour ride on his scooter to the Klong Muang beach.
It is a pretty awesome beach with hardly any people on it. However, there is a need to take note of the tides because at low tide the beach may be too shallow to swim or snorkel.
Snorkeling was pretty disappointing with dead corals everywhere. According to Ire, just 2 years ago, those coral reefs were still colourful with colourful fishes swimming among time. The added long-tail boat routes maybe the main cause. Such a pity. Coral reefs take tens of thousands of years to form yet human only need a few years to destroy them. I wonder what I can do to help to stop the destruction of our beautiful marine ecosystems.
At night, I went to a different night market called the Walking Street. It only opens in the weekends, Friday to Sunday from 5pm to 10pm.
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