When you arrive you’ll find a group of huts by the lakefront. This is the best part about Huay Tung Tao and the main reason why most people come here. Just walk into any empty hut and a member of staff from the nearest restaurant will come over. The staff don’t speak much English, so pointing and holding up you fingers will be the way to order if you don’t speak much Thai. The food is fairly cheap! I got a whole salted fish, for only 180 baht about £4 and a large Chang was only 60 THB (£1.40).

Vendors were walking around the lake selling snacks, offering things like fresh cut fruit, boiled peanuts etc and also there were ice cream carts that slowly made their way around to each hut & table selling cold goodies.

You can go swimming in the lake and there were some local Thai near us swimming fully clothed. The water was pretty warm and not too deep in the area that is marked for bathing, it came up to our knees just be aware that you’ll be sharing the waters with some friendly wildlife. Out of know where a 3 foot long snake swam past us right where we had been sitting.

While we were there I hardly saw any other foreigners like us, this is definitely a local hidden gem.