The day after the wedding we did a 7 hour coach journey down to Trat, which is a region and small town close to the Cambodian border.
We stayed in Trat one night and before we took a speedboat over to a small tropical island (more on that in the next post!), we visited a shrimp farm that is owned and run by one of Cata’s cousins.
Her cousin picked us up early Monday morning and the majority of us had the pleasure of riding in the back of a pick-up truck!
She first took us to one of the new farm sites where they are digging and building some new shrimp ponds (that isn’t a shrimp industry term!).
She explained to us why it was needed to dig these new ponds, but I sadly can’t remember… Anyway, we had a look around, filled up with some gas (the old-school way) and drove off to one of the functioning and working farms .
I thought it was really interesting to see how they grow shrimp and also how BIG they actually get! We are totally getting the most basic shrimps over here in Europe hahaha! The ones we saw were babies and they were pretty big already!
Im not going to lie, I have no idea how common it is in Thailand for women to be owning and running businesses like this, but what I loved most about this whole thing was that it was Cata’s female cousin that was running the show.
To me that was another testament to the fact that Cata comes from a family of some very strong and independent women which I totally love and I can see where she gets it from now that I’ve met most of them.
After exploring the farm we headed off to catch the boat to Koh Mak – but more on that in the next post!