Don Sak, and Surrounding Area!

Nana, one of my host moms friends, has the tendancy to "kidnap" me.  Now, that sounds bad, but its not.  She takes me to places, and most of the time I have no clue where I am going, but its an adventure, and I always make it back.  So technically I can't call it kidnapping, but more of her taking me around to visit the different sites.  We went to this small town of Ban Laem Luen.  It is a small fishing village that is located on an island about 10 minutes from Don Sak. 

 Two little houses perched on the rocks in the small town of Ban Laem Luen.  It's a fishing village, as I've mentioned before, and you had to go over a extremely large bridge in order to get to the place. 

 Looking back at the boardwalk that goes all the way around the island.  The right side is a few houses.  When the tide is up, the water will go right up to the houses, and thats why they are built on stilt type things.

 Looking back at the village.  We were moving, so it made it extremely hard to get a picture of it, but I think I got a bit of the town.  We didn't stay here long, but Nana did talk to just about everyone that we passed.  I was the main topic, they all wanted to know where I came from, who I was, where I was staying, and lots of questions like that. 

 This is the road into Don Sak.  The hill is actually pretty steep, but you can't really tell that from a picture.  The sports area is to the left of the picture.  There is a track, an field with a few small soccer nets, and then an outdoor excersize gym that I have used once....for about 10 minutes...and then I got bored, and we headed off to do something more interesting...

 On our little excursion around town, we passed a cow.  So I took a picture of it.  I miss eating beef, because my host family doesn't eat beef.  I haven't had any beef since I left Canada, and I know that I could go out and eat beef, but I don't really want to.  My host family has made the commitment not to eat it, so I made the decision to honor their way, and not eat beef as well. 

 My host mom, host aunts, Nana, and a few other people all went to this little beachside restaurant, and this is a view of where we ate.  This is looking to the left of where we sat.  The "beach" was covered in cracked shells, I tried to find a few that I could keep, but for the most part they were all broken. :(

 This is the scene to the right of where we ate...I don't know what to say about it.  I just thought it was a really pretty place, and I enjoyed looking at it.  While we ate, we could see the little fishing boats putter back and forth. 

 My Favorite Meal! I have no idea what it is called, but this is definately one of my favorite meals that I eat here.  How do you make it? Well you take the leaf, and fold it into a cone shape.  Then you take some coconut shavings (the far blue bowl-the one without the spoon and brown liquid), then add some peanuts, some dried shrimp, some ginger chunks, onion, and lime.  Then you add the sauce.  If you wanted you could add some chilli's but I find them too spicy, so I just put everything else in, minus the chilli's.  You then shove it all in your mouth at once.  Your mouth gets assaulted with a variety of different flavors, and its sooo good!!!! I love it, and when ever we have it, they all laugh at how much I eat.  I will try to get the recipe, but I don't know if we have those leaves in Canada, so we wouldn't get the entire flavor. 

 Another one of my favorite meals that I eat here.  This is a fish, but the "meat" has been dried and ground up so its all smooshed together.  Then its stuck back in the fish, and papaya, chilli's, cucumbers, cashews, and a variety of other things are added on top to eat with it.  Even though I hate to admit it, I actually like the fish, and this meal is really good. 

Looking down the beach at where we had lunch.  The building on the right is the type of building that we had lunch in :)