Phkuet and Bangkok Post-Practicum Trip

About a day after we got back from out practicum sites, our group took a red eye plane from Chiang Mai International Airport to the beaches about two hours outside of Phuket - a less touristy place called Khao Lak. Khao Lak is a collection of beaches on an island in the very southern part of Thailand. It's beaches are filled with the whitest, finest sand your feet just sink right into. The aqua colored ocean radiates with serenity like the pictures you find on beach calendars - those places you think just can't be real. I could stay there forever; drinking coconut banana smoothies inside of a coconut shell, basking in the hot sun, and swimming in the warm ocean, without a care in the world. This really is the life.

After about four days of relaxing, snorkeling with amazing tropical fish, swimming with sea turtles, getting horribly sunburnt, kayaking through mangrove rain forests full of poisonous but beautiful snakes, eating island Thai food in a beach-side sala, making friends from France, and attempting not to sweat every second of every day, we took an overnight bus to Bangkok - my home away from home! 

This was the day i could not wait for. I love Chiang Mai's rich cultural flavor, i love Phuket's tropical breeze and beauty, i love the village's quaintness and ruggedness. But i love Bangkok. Maybe it's the nostalgia from living there with my mom and my sister: two of my best friends, maybe it's the magical busyness of city life, maybe it's those bright pink taxis. I don't know. Whatever it is, i love Bangkok, and being there made me want to go back, forever.