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Cha-am
We finally found the place where all the tourists are hiding! (Asian tourists tho. No Europeans around.) – where we shouldn’t have went to.
It´s a sh*thole called “Cha-am” and I really don´t get why so many people are going there.
The beach is super crowded and filled by people trying to get you into motorized Bananas (aka jet-skies or whatever else you can do in the sea with a motor). Therefor, it´s also super noisy and you really gotta be careful when swimming – otherwise you might get runover by whatever motorized thing is the closest to you (despite the smell of fuel in your nose which you can’t even evade from in the water).
Apart from the fact that the beach is shit, it doesn´t really get better in the city / the main street close to the beach.
There´s a food market all day long, which would be great! If the merchants weren´t too restricted in intelligence, to keep their bloody crabs and squid out of fried vegetables and steam rice. Plus it´s super expensive. And super small portions. Had to go to the supermarket after dinner for getting some snacks, in order to avoid starving to death during sleep.
Cha-am furthermore is the only place, where tiny, dirty and smelly rooms can be rent for 400 THB upwards. I´m really not into luxury and don´t mind sleeping in shitty places! But over 10€ for a bed that´s worth 4? Naaaah.
This city reminds me a lot of Sihanoukville in Cambodia (Chinese tooooourists wuhuuu) – whoever read the text about that place knows how much I loved it :D
Later, on the day we left that lovely city, we found out that it´s only that crowded on weekends, because all the people from Bangkok want to spend their weekend somewhere at the beach. Personally wouldn’t go there under the week anyway!
(Was so disappointed that I didn´t even take any proper pictures of that place. And I usually take pics of EVERYTHNG!)