Getting From Bangkok to Prachuap Khiri Khan

Our next holiday stop is the seaside town called Prachuap Khiri Khan. It's to the South of Bangkok and for the next few days will be referred to as PKK. PKK is also the name of the province. A more well known city to the North of PKK is called Hua Hin but we decided to visit a less touristy spot to relax for a few days. Our train departs at 3.10 pm and hopefully arrives just after 8pm. Time to eat some waffles for brunch along with a nice coffee from Dunkin' Donuts. Then it's more book reading time. I've definitely read this Lee Child one before but can't remember it very well so decided to keep reading. Jack has only beaten up one guy so far. A slow start for him. 😂

The train boards on time. We have booked a Class 2 seat with fan, no aircon. 242 Bhat each, or $13 NZD. The seats are comfortable and can even be reclined. Just one thing bugs me compared to the other trains. Smoking! Between the carriages people go out to get their fix. You can't help but notice the second hand smoke. Sarah tells me to chill and ignore it. I'd rather go kick the smokers off the side of the train. 😉

On the positive side of things Sarah has purchased us a range of snacks for the journey. Including, salted dried broad beans, honey roasted peanuts, dried sweet potato chips, onion and garlic dried peas, watermelon, and normal potato chips. All are good except for the garlic peas. There are people walking up and down the carriages every few minutes selling lots of different food items. We will stick to our snacks thanks. 

Oh the other negative thing I haven't mentioned before now about Cambodia and Thailand is the huge amount of rubbish you see beside the highways and train tracks. Especially in the cities. They just seem to discard their plastics and don't care what happens to them in the future. It's very sad that they treat their own countryside like that. It's just what they do I guess. Even though most places we have been there are plenty of rubbish and recycling bins. It's in contrast to the care they take of their fallen leaves which people are constantly sweeping up to keep the place tidy. 

As we get closer to 8pm and after we have been through Hua Hin it's time to keep an eye on the map. There are no announcements of upcoming stations and if you don't get off at the right spot you only have yourself to blame. You would not want to fall asleep! In China they were much more organised and each carriage had attendants that took your ticket and kept it until it was time to get off. They would come warn you before hand to get ready to disembark.