The night market in Khota Bahru is great for dinner. Here you can get all sorts of local goodies.
Yet another market in Asia. We loved going to the markets, just to see what everyone is doing and eating in each country.
Khota Bahru is one of the last places in Malaysia that hold on to some of the old customs. Unfortunately, if Muhammad didn't do it, the Malaysians are generally not interested. Here are some of the locals at the Cultural Center having a top spinning contest. The top is thrown onto the ground and picked up. The longest spinning top wins. Some can go for 20-30 minutes!
Mmm tastes like chicken...
This was one of our camp sites. The next day we spelunked a cave containing pottery over 1000 years old. Thailand is a great place for exploring!
Elephants are everywhere in Thailand. For a fee, you get to feed the babies.
Our tour group getting ready to enter a cave near Kranchanuburi (sp?), the city near the Bridge over the River Quai. The tour was great. We rode elephants, swam in waterfalls, spelunked through bat infested caves in water up to our chests, camped and hiked through the jungle, and floated down a river on bamboo rafts. Awesome!
One of the "floating" markets near Bangkok.
At a local shrine, you could hire these dancers to intercede on your behalf as you prayed to God. The shrine had all sorts of donations from banannas to Happy Meals.
We got this picture of Thai Beauties from a fellow traveller. Beauty contests are big business here. Most of the girls have corporate sponsors.
We made it to Bangkok in time for the Thai New Year and Songkran. The water festival lasts about 4 days. If you go into the streets, prepare to be drenched. A 4 day water fight! It was a blast!!
A courtyard near the temple housing the Emerald Buddha. Everywhere you look on the Palace grounds leaves you amazed.
The grounds of the Royal Palace in Bangkok are bright and colorful. It is hard to believe you are in a real place. Everything looks animated.
