More Thailand

After Bangkok we headed to the Province of Trang. This is where we are going to be doing our volunteer work.

Back at the airport to Trang

Trang is such a small airport. We were the only plane in the whole airport when we landed.

We checked out the city of Trang a little when we first arrived.

This is the best way to get around town.

Familes get around on scooters. You will sometimes see 3 or 4 people on one scooter. It’s very common. The kid on the front of this bike is reading a book while cruising down the road.

Here is our home in Trang for the next 2 weeks.

Back into the city First stop a temple. It’s actually a Chinese temple. There is actually a large influence of Chinese in the Trang area.

Anybody hungry

We started to head out of town with our group of volunteers for the day. On the way we stopped by a local house to see how they made rubber. There are many rubber trees in the area. It’s actually a cool process to see.
The ladies hard at work making rubber.

Rubber Trees

Here is how they get the juice from the tree. A very slow process

We finally made it out to the ocean for the day. We were headed to a private beach. It was beautiful. We had to take longtail boats to get there.

Matt loved this beach. So much nature to play with.

We had a mean game of soccer on the beach.

Our volunteer team was all fired up

After the beach we were headed to plant mangroves. Mangroves are very good for the island. They help protect the shore.

You can tell by our faces we weren’t ready for what we just stepped in. It was like thick sludge sucking our feet up. Goodtimes!

Everybody was cracking up.