One day E and I got up early and headed to “Ao Nang! Ao Nang!” to take a Thai cooking class. Ao Nang is a major tourist hub in the area and differs from the Rai Lei in that it is accessible by car. We hopped off the boat and headed to the meeting point. There we were met by our instructor, loaded up into her car and driven a short 10 minutes to her house. It was a beautiful setting for a cooking class! The cooking structure was above her house on the hill, probably 5-10 feet above the tree line, so you looked out over this sea of green, with the famous pillars of oozing rock bursting up here and there upon the horizon. And lucky us, we were the only two that had signed up that day. The instructor was great and spoke good English. She smoothly took us through all the ingredients used in most Thai dishes. We had pre-selected 4 dishes out of 25 that we would wanted to cook, and one dessert. We were provided a book to record the recipes as we went along, ingredients, steps, cooking times, etc. After cooking our first two meals, it was time for lunch and we sat and enjoyed the splendid dishes we had just prepared. After lunch, it was on to our final two entrees and, of course, the dessert. We just had room for the dessert and took the last two dishes back to Morgs and Nate. For 1000 bht, (about $25), E and I both thought it was well worth the money.