Hua Hin

Hua Hin is a large resort about 220km west of Bangkok. On a good day you can do it three hours. You go through Cha Am to get to it, being a further 20km south of there.

On my visit to Cha Am last year, Nuch and I had visited Hua Hin; in all fairness I didn’t like it much. A little like Skeggy.

The race I did last weekend was very close to Hua Hin so we decided to find a hotel in the south of the resort. The hotel was very nice and right on the beach. The Hua Hin I had been to before was the central/Downtown area. It was a little run down and shabby. Most of the rest of the resort is very modern and as plenty of good restaurants and plenty of nightlife. Cha Am is a very nice resort, but a bit quiet on the nightlife front.

The beach our hotel was on as got to be the best beach I have ever been on. Classic white fine sand, no litter, very few people and lovely hot clear sea. What more do you need?

We found a small market where we ate very nice fried noodles, and later found a restaurant in a little Bay, the food was great.

I could definitely live in Hua Hin. It is the centre of the Thai Golf resorts, loads of places to ride my bike. The prices for new condos are still fairly cheap. A one bed Condo for around £28000.

On the way back, like most Thai roads there are vendors on the side of the road. They seem to do a good business. The produce they sell will change from district to district. We started off with Lychee sellers, and then came the sea salt sellers then the roast chicken sellers. To finish off there are the sellers of a strange fruit that can be squeezed to make almost pure cane syrup or squeezed and then dried to form sugar cakes. Strange fruit! Nuch isn’t sure of the name. The picture shows Nuch buying a kilo of Lychee.