In Thailand often go for the thrill that you can get There are literally everywhere: on the street, where they sell fried grasshoppers and cockroaches in restaurants, chefs who have spared no spices in the go-go-bars with a candid show. We have come to partake of exotic fruit and see a tiny island, which is marked only by a very detailed maps, but it is known almost the best beaches in the entire country.
Most tourists from the Nordic countries, Thailand is the whole fruit paradise. So the heart of this paradise is located in Rayong. The province, a couple of hours' drive southeast of Bangkok, has fertile soil and ideal climatic conditions that persist almost year round. Plantations occupy this vast territory, and it is not surprising that once the Thais have come up with to turn them into tourist attraction. So there was the biggest in the region Fruit Farm - Supatra Land. Anyone can get here. Most often, the farm brought a group of tourists from the resorts of Pattaya and Rayong, but you can come and buy yourself a ticket on the spot. Immediately outside the gate of the farm our group waited for a small open bus, reminiscent golfkar-overgrown. He drove us to the flower garden and groves, on the form which the breath away, even for those who are basically indifferent to sadamogorodam. Endless rows of manicured trees, where each large fruit is packed in separate plastic or paper bag to protect from insects and birds, it is better than any words dispelled the myth of the laziness of the Thais, for some reason, popular with Russian tourists. At one point, the bus made a stop. The driver jumped out of the cockpit and with a small hatchet in his hand firmly toward the nearest tree, from which has already been cut off part of the crust. We followed him and found out from under the hatchet stuck in the barrel in a special bucket drips sticky white liquid. It was a rubber - rather, the milky sap of the tree called Hevea Brazil, widespread in Southeast Asia. Rubber content in the juice - 40-50%. The driver is actively encouraged us to try to prey, supporting the proposal by example. Decided on a few - and found the juice of rubber trees rather nasty taste. I waited with the rest of the declared program excursions "bewildering buffet of the freshest fruit" - tasting of local crops included in the ticket price. In the middle of the way we stopped at a small counter with a shed. Smiling secretly right in front of us cut fruit. Half of them I've never tried, but the taste of the second half has opened up again. So, I learned that the characteristic tingling sensation, familiar to anyone who ate the pineapple in Moscow - not at all characteristic of this fruit, but a sign of his immaturity. It also became clear that my dislike of passion because I just do not eat it ripe. About the mangosteen, rambutan, Pitahaya, mango and papaya, and tell nothing - they are really worth poprobovat b.
But the main thing was to come. At some distance from the buffet in a separate table, we waited for the "king of fruits" - the so-called Thai durian. We approached with some caution - yet at the durian stinking reputation. Thai people describe it as a fruit "with a heavenly taste and smell of hell." We were lucky - the first durian, met on Thai soil, was just a tree, so the smell was pretty weak. And all the legends about the horrible scent of durian fruits are among those who had a couple of days to lie on market stalls in the hot sun. However, wishing to taste the durian in our group was even lower than in the case of rubber. I was among the brave volunteers and I can say that the taste is not a paradise nor hell - probably closer to purgatory. In texture durian most similar to custard. And we have distinguished tastes in the fruit set: here and melon, and cream, and strawberries, and beaten egg, and a little garlic, and even bacon. As for the smell - if you like silnopahnuschie cheeses with mold, the aroma of durian hardly seem so much repulsive. Vitamins to boost your fruit farm, we went to the Ban-Pe - a small fishing village, famous for its seafood and manufactured here is a traditional Thai fish sauce. Otcyuda can reach the island of Samet, which is located only seven kilometers from the coast. To the island ferries - small double-decker boats about 60 passengers, commonly called bigbotami. This boat is floating about 30-40 minutes, and approaching one of the four piers Samet. But forty minutes to swim does not like, so we ordered spidbot - a small boat on which our group of thirteen people could stay comfortably. We did not consider one thing - your luggage. Somehow we decided that it will bring to the island as a separate and totally did not expect that the suitcases and bags will dump a big pile in the center of our katerka. However, the time to express dissatisfaction with nowhere to put your feet, we were not given - the boat took off briskly, and all immediately forgotten about overcrowding. Cpidbot fully justified the name - we domchali to your destination within ten minutes.
I thought that our boat moves with huge leaps in a single transverse wave to another. I sat in the open nose that bouncing above all, and all attention focused on how not to fall overboard. Awfully numb hands, which I desperately cling to a slippery rope, but even so, the giant leaps through the waves brought me to the joy of children. This trip is generally extremely embolden our group. Especially when we realized that to any pier to moor are not going to - they are for us too high. Boat buried his nose in the bottom not far from our hotel, so we had to take off one's shoes and planted directly into the water. She was warm and crystal clear, and under the heel felt fine, like flour and sand. Boss boat with his son dragged our suitcases on their shoulders in a dry place. The hotel in which we lived - three-star Sai Kaew Beach Resort - located on the north-east of the island at once at the two beaches: the longest, stretching a kilometer Haad Sai Kaew, along which are expensive villas and rocky, with the length of 50 meters, Ao Luk Yon with small bungalows. On the white sand of Haad Sai Kaew few people and lots of free sunbeds. In the evening on the beach offers many restaurants and bars. Waiters are right on the sand, spread a mat around the low tables and in front of some cafes are fire show - though, to watch their interest not more than once. At the end of Haad Sai Kaew is a sculpture depicting the prince and the mermaid. This is a business card of the island. Monument established in honor of the classic Thai poetry of the XIX century Suntona Pu. The most famous poem, it tells an ancient legend about the mermaid who fell in love with the prince and helped him escape from captivity at the Marine giantess Samet. However, the center of night life is not here but further south along the eastern coast - on the beach, Ao Wong Duean, more well-known among tourists as Malibu Beach. The place is considered to be the noisiest on the island - the beach is always piled deck chairs, and here you can even find a few discos. But go for the noisy evening entertainment Samet is not: on the contrary, its beaches are often run down a couple of days, tourists from Pattaya - a break from the hustle and bustle. The road to the tour minibus to Ban Pe they took about an hour. A total of sixteen tiny island of beaches, most of them runs along the east coast. All of them are in their own interest: there are ideal, as in advertising - with palm trees, soft sand and turquoise bays, and there are rocky, with a rugged coastline and the difficult entrance into the water. What unites them is that they are all very clean. On the west coast there is only one beach - Ao Phrao. It is located in the northern part and is considered the most expensive on Samet. There are no bungalows - just of hotels. Ao Phrao on the sand a little whiter and the water is more transparent than in other places. Snorkelling enthusiasts attracted by the coral reefs inhabited by numerous species of fish. The southernmost beach of the island - Ao Karang - completely made of stone. In this place come the fans snorkeling, stunning sunsets, sunrises and inexpensive seafood, are served at very affordable prices in the local restaurants. If you want to try this seafood worth seeing amazing restaurant Ban Ploysamed Beach Ao Noi Na in the northwestern part of the island. To get to him enough to tell the driver that you have on fish farms, fish-farm. The restaurant is a wooden bungalow on stilts, standing in the sea about fifty meters from shore. We, of course, could not look back. A small jetty we called in a special bell on a pole, calling the boat, which pulls a rope winch. Overcoming the marine element and rising on shaky steps, sat down on the decomposition on the floor cushions at a low long table, and swung his legs in a big hole underneath. Through the glass table top was visible water, splashing around in five meters below us, fierce sea urchins, cleave to the mossy piles, and large flocks of apparently prikormlennyh fishies waiting for treats. We threw them a simple rice, everything else was a pity - it's delicious cooked here! However, according to Thai standards, expensive meals: a big platter of seafood, which is more than enough for two, costs 800 baht. We stayed at Samet week, and miss us, despite the small size of the island, there was no time. Fishing, snorkeling in coral reefs, hiking to the beach to the beach is not bored by the end of vacation. And is it possible to get tired of sparkling white sand, gentle sea, excellent cuisine and Thai hospitality? On the day of our departure was rain and the sea very worried, so the idea of