Chang Puak Elephant Camp was our second destination for the one day tour that we had signed up with Eddie. Initially I didn't fancy the idea of elephant riding. I'm an animal lover and I never want to support any activities that exploit and abuse the animals. However, I didn't want to spoil the fun so I just joined my friend. I couldn't imagine myself telling my friends, 'Hey! Don't ride the elephants. So cruel.' Haha. They will be very pissed off if I did that. And I could not leave one of them there riding alone right. It'd be so wrong. So I just ride~ *in case one of you read this post xD* It was their first time riding elephants too but they felt the overall experience was okay. However I just felt pity for the elephants. 500 Thai baht per person for the ride. I didn't want to comment much because I'm not supporting elephant riding. 

This was actually the first elephant ride in my life and I was terrified. The elephant that we rode was in a bad mood or naughty mood on that hot afternoon. I didn't know how it felt but I was really scared of being thrown off by the elephant. It was a half an hour elephant ride but I didn't enjoy myself even a second of it. The trainer was trying to discipline the elephant using a hook. I had to pretend I was calm and prevent myself from kicking or touching the elephant too much. Well. We never know. A split second...we could be injured or die. I didn't want to take the risk. So I just stayed calm. My friend thought it was adventurous and fun but mmmkay...this was no fun for me.

After the elephant riding tour finished, cold drinks and some fruits were served for us. The staffs even displayed the photographs at the booth for tourists to choose. I didn't enjoyed myself but I did buy the photo.

We had some light refreshment before embarking to the next destination.

Samila beach is located approximately 2.5 kilometers from the municipal market. This 6km long beach is filled with white sand and many tourists come here just to take a glance of the Golden mermaid Statue. A blogger said that touching the Mermaid's boobs would bring good lucks. However, I didn't do that when I took photographs with the Mermaid. In reality, there were tons of people lining up near the mermaid to take photographs. I couldn't imagine myself touching the mermaid's boobs in front of the crowds.

All these nice places were very far from the city. We didn't go there because it's a short trip. 

Even though the place was fulled with the crowds but I was surprised that the sand was very clean!

Seashells~

Found an Amway shop while we were on our way to Songkhla.

After I google for a while, I only realised that our taxi driver brought us to the wrong temple. Initially we plan to go to Wat Hat Yai Nai. We ended up here. It's okay. This temple is located in Ko Yo island just after we passed the Tinsulanond Bridge.

We walked around the temple and we saw a nice place to take photo.

Can you see a bridge?That's the Tinsulanond Bridge.

We stayed there for a while because it started to drizzle. So we rushed back to the car and we departed to Samila beach. 

We went to Asean Trade night market at 5 p.m. Not all shops were opened yet so we just window shopping for a while. The things there were very cheap compared with the things sold at Central Festival mall. However, I still prefer Taiwan's night market. So we ended up buying a few things only because the things were not that cheap actually after we converted to MYR. It was very hot in the night market. We felt like we were trapped inside the heat. After shopping for a while, we decided to go upstairs to have our dinner.

I ordered Pad Thai.