Karon Viewpoint and Nai Harn Beach
The usual for breakfast! We were surprised to cut into a dragon fruit and find the flesh red. We have seen those before but the previous ones we bought here were white. The red ones are better! We also had bananas, mango and passion fruit.
Today we looked at flight options to come back to Thailand in the new year. Can you believe that seat availability in January is disappearing? Life here is great, who wouldn’t want to return during our Saskatchewan winter? We’ll talk about that another day, but one way or another we will be coming back!
Today is sunny and warm, or should we say HOT. Many would call 30ºC with 85% humidity hot. We think it’s perfect. Both of us are finding the arthritis much better.
As we said before, the couple running this complex is beyond fantastic. Andrew offered to take us to the beach in Nai Harn. Along the way he took us to Karon Viewpoint which was quite impressive. We have a short video we uploaded to share below.
We spent the day at Nai Harn Beach and likely got too much sun. We were in the shade of the umbrella the whole time we were on the beach. The water was so inviting despite it’s limited cooling effect. We spent a lot of time bobbing around in the surf. The beach was busier today, probably due to slightly relaxed requirements to enter Thailand that started the day after we arrived. As of November 1 only one covid test is required on arrival at the airport. Since we arrived October 29, we need to have our second test tomorrow, Saturday November 6, which is our sixth day here. Wow how time flies. We are 99.9% sure we will test negative again because we feel fine. Actually, our villa has such great cleaning standards we feel pretty safe. Remembering back to our last trip, by the middle of March 2020 we were unsure if touching any surface in our hotel in Kuala Lumpur was even safe. Here at Lady Naya Villas the opposite is true. The cleaning here is great, when we return to the room after being out we can smell the clean!
Tonight we ate at Thai Curry & Seafood. This is our third meal here. Gary ordered king mackerel fried fish with Thai sauce, and Linda ordered massaman curry chicken. We both had mango smoothies and soda water. It cost 460฿ – $17.25 CAD. Linda’s massaman curry was so flavourful with real coconut milk, it was amazing. Gary’s meal was also very good, but the curry beat it out for flavour! While we were eating it started pouring down rain. Considering we walked to the restaurant, we were relieved it hadn’t started any earlier and soaked us.
After we ate, we walked down the street to the huge fruit market. We bought 40 passion fruit (3 Kg), 3 huge avocados and 2 dragon fruit. It cost us $19.40 CAD. That many passion fruit would cost $60 CAD back home and they would be 1/2 the size and no where near as juicy or tasty.