Travel to Thailand to Learn How to Cook Thai Style!
This is a Guest Post provided by Penny Swift for Travel Insurance Cover, an Australian travel insurance company. Penny is a freelance writer as well as an avid traveler and enthusiastic cook.
I love travelling and I love cooking, so whenever I can, I take a cookery course that teaches me about the cuisine of the country I am visiting.
My most recent holiday was to Phuket in Thailand, inspired not in the least by my love of Thai food.
Having filled our bags with bargains, we left for Phuket the same day. On landing in Phuket, we booked the PhiPhi Island tour for the next day. It is highly recommended that one book such a tour because of two reasons. Firstly, PhiPhi Island is accessible only by ferries and travellers who are not a part of such packages are charged more. Secondly, passengers who book a tour at the airport are given a free shuttle to their hotels. Public transport is nonexistent and taxis are very expensive. Our hotel, Ibis Kata was an hour’s drive from the airport. Had we not booked the tour for about 1000 baht, we would have spent 800 baht just for the taxi back to the hotel! Click for details on Ibis Kata
The temple tour and more…..
Our very first stop was the Reclining Buddha Temple which has the longest statue of Buddha. The statue is 46m long and is gold plated.
Reclining Buddha Temple Pic credit: Supriya Kurpad
Next we visited the Marble Temple which is locally known as Wat Benchamabophit, meaning Temple of the fifth king.
Marble Temple Pic Credit: Supriya Kurpad
The temple complex has many statues of Buddha in various poses – walking, sitting, meditating, preaching etc!
Buddha in various poses Pic credit : Supriya Kurpad
Guilty as charged, I have been out of loop lately. Everyone told me rather warned me of how little time I would I have for myself let alone blogging after the little ones’ arrival. But, frankly it was more due to health reasons that I could not devote time to writing travelogues or recipes on my other blog site – Akshayapatram, as much as I wanted to. Anyways, am back albeit I will still take it slow.
Today am going to share with you a travelogue about Bangkok and Phuket written by a young traveller Supriya Kurpad, who shares with us her excitement, anxiety and inhibitions, centred on this trip…
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