End of Thailand

During the past few weeks we have become experts on Thailand's beaches. We worked our way from Bangkok down to the Andaman islands of Ko Phi Phi, Ko Lanta and Ko Lipe and then over to the Gulf of Thailand for almost two weeks on the large island of Ko Samui. On each island we rotated hotels and beaches to get different experiences in both the tourist scene and in local island life. The relaxation of island life was extremely refreshing after our hectic travels and adventures over the past three months.

However, you can only spend so much time at the beach reading, tanning and eating (and eating some more)! We are now back in Bangkok and will be leaving for home tomorrow. Our first flight is four hours to Shanghai where we will spend a 16 hour layover exploring the city. The next morning we will have a 15 hour flight to JFK and back to the States!

Below are some photos of the past few days here in Bangkok. Yesterday we took a Thai cooking class where we learned how to cook pad thai, spring rolls, coconut fried bananas, and massaman curry. We hope that we can recreate some of the amazing cuisine we have stuffed ourselves with here in Thailand back home!

Today we went to the Bangkok zoo which was so great because we were allowed to get extremely close to some of the animals and actually feed the elephants and hippos! Tonight we went to get a few drinks with some American friends we met at the cooking class on the 55th floor of the ritzy Centara Hotel. It was a nice way to end our stay here in Thailand. 

Making pad thai

Fresh chicken

Fresh seafood

Our teacher explaining Thai vegetables

Becca going shopping

Can you do this in America?

Or this?

55 floors above Bangkok!

Our pad thai friends

Goodbye Thailand.