Trang for breakfast

 Islands done for a while, it was time to throw myself back into exploring Thailand's provincial towns.

Trang Town is known for it's food. Chinese-Thai coffee shops serving bak ku teh (pork bone tea, a peppery soup) and strong kopi with condensed milk accompanied by free green tea; roasted pork at the municipal market; Thai muslim food like biryani and curry; and copious amounts of the local mildly-sweet sponge cake, called (unsurprisingly) Trang Cake.

Well... you gotta build back all the calories you burned off at the beach!

Skillet breakfast at Kopi, an old-school kopitiam next to the train station

What do you do in town between meals?

There's not a lot to do - wander around the town centre and admire the remnants of historic architecture. Explore the market. Grab a coffee. Wander some more. Maybe a snack.

You can use the town as a good base to explore nearby parks, caves and waterfalls, or take trips to any of the Trang islands or the mainland beaches, if you're of a mind and have the energy to do so.

(Okay, I didn't do a lot apart from eat in the town. It was a perfectly nice 2 days.)

Trang Town Clock Tower